WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hind Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:14.519 speakers all over the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.320 We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:22.839 And now here's your message. 6 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:29.039 You're listening to a podcast from Victory. The Bible has 7 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.320 written so that its teachings can be understood by all 8 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.399 who will read it as they seek God's help. Learn 9 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:39.719 more about this truth in week seven of our series Wordview. 10 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:49.359 Deuteronomy Chapter thirty, verses eleven to fourteen. Deuteronomy thirty versus 11 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:52.119 eleven to fourteen. Now, verse eleven says, now what I 12 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:57.799 am commanding you today? Okay, not yesterday, but today. It's 13 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.920 not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It 14 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.759 is not up in heaven so that you have to 15 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.319 ask who will ascend into heaven and get it and 16 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.400 proclaim it to us so that we may obeate. 17 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.200 Or nor is it beyond the sea. 18 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.959 So that you can say, who will cross the sea 19 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:18.920 and proclaim it to us so that we may obey. No, 20 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:23.159 the word is very near you. It is in your 21 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.560 mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey. 22 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.840 Let's pray, Father, I ask that you would bless the 23 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.799 preaching of your word. But I pray, Holy Spirit, that 24 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.159 you would illumine our hearts and our minds. Thank you 25 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.719 that it is not far away, it is very near. 26 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.280 I pray that you would clarify your word to us, 27 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 so that, just like Moses said, so that we may obate. 28 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.439 This is my prayer in Jesus name. 29 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.680 Amen. All right, Very briefly, a brief background of this scripture. 30 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.280 This was actually a time when the Israelites were about 31 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.439 to cross over Cana and the Promised Land. Okay, they 32 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.919 spent forty years in the desert. Now the people that 33 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.240 Moses were addressing was a whole new generation. A whole 34 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.240 generation died in the wilderness forty years. So Ivan Alam said, 35 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:23.000 Joshua's a Caleb, and of course mosesn't do so. All 36 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.159 the rest were probably millennials and younger twenty years or younger. 37 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:37.120 So he was reintroducing God's Covenant document, God's Covenant rules, 38 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:42.360 God's laws. In fact, the court commandment means law the 39 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.919 things that I command you talking about the scriptures, talking 40 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:53.240 about God's covenant relationship revealed through this because this Bible, okay, 41 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.879 is not just a text. It's actually what God revealed 42 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.879 to us of how we can relate with him. Because 43 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.800 any relationship, you know, you need to know how to 44 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.280 relate with one another. Right, and this is how God 45 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.199 told his people we ought to relate with him, whether 46 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:16.560 it's in worship, giving, in all the life of covenant relationship. 47 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:18.479 And from this text. 48 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.120 From this text, we can see that the Bible is revealed. 49 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:29.120 Number one, God reveals his word. That God's word is near. 50 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:33.439 Say that to your seeing Nate, God's word is near. Hindi, 51 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.120 Thou sham alayo versus legges. Now, what I am commanding 52 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.439 you today is not too difficult, Hindi, Mahira, simply land. 53 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:51.120 The Bible is so simple. What can be complicated with? 54 00:03:51.400 --> 00:04:04.639 Thou shalt not steal? Right, it's not complicated. It's simple, easy, simple, Yes, okay, 55 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.280 that shall not steal Sabini Moses, it is not beyond 56 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.759 your reach. Now, when Moses talks about beyond your reach, 57 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.639 is not talking about a physical distance here, but he 58 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:24.560 was talking about intellectual accessibility or capacity. In other words, Indi, 59 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.800 Sabina hindim allayud I don't know if you've you've talked 60 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.839 to some people. Now puck in anong meadure of tangent, 61 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.480 you massa good, okay. I mean, of course, if you 62 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:37.920 have some mental disorder, maybe sometimes that happens, right, But 63 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:42.120 then it comes to gonna Mount Everest, you're gonna lie you. 64 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.120 I mean, although some people sobram off tangent, what Moses 65 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.879 is saying is the Bible is not so off tangent. 66 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:52.319 Now you know, hindimum a grasp, that's what he's saying. 67 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:56.439 Beyond it's not beyond your reach. Okay, it's simple, you 68 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:57.560 can grasp it. 69 00:04:58.399 --> 00:04:58.680 Okay. 70 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.240 Other words, how can you not grasp when God tells 71 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:10.199 us thou shalt not covet It's simple, it's within our reach. 72 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:16.439 And that's why he continues, it's not up in heaven. Yeah, 73 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.720 it's not up in heaven. That you may you have 74 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.680 to ask who will go there and explain it, who 75 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:26.439 will go there and proclaim it to us? You know, 76 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.480 during that time, they didn't have any planes or rocket ships, right, 77 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:35.000 I mean for them the heavens or the first heavens, 78 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.600 So the heavenly the heaven lists, which is you're okay 79 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.240 with our eye, you man, stars the moon, it was 80 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.000 beyond the reach. So what Moses say, You know, it's 81 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.319 not like you have to go up there and you know, 82 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.319 get a rocket ship. Although we love a rocket ship, 83 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.079 it's not really accessible. 84 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:57.240 It's not that now, nor is it beyond the sea. 85 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:00.920 I guess even even you may bargaon on okay, while 86 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:05.600 a Bayomana mana luxury cruise liners that go around the 87 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.480 world with all these high tech things. I mean part 88 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.040 of my amusement partner. I don't know if you've I 89 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:16.160 saw some a documentarylass, but it's there's. 90 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:17.399 They don't have anything like that. 91 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.120 You cannot go all and circumnavigate the world and all 92 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:21.720 of these things. 93 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.439 You don't have to go that far. You say that 94 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.240 it's not concealed the Bible. 95 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.120 A boot Okay, it's not too far away that you 96 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.360 can't lay hold of it for yourself. It's not rocket science, 97 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:40.800 that's what in modern day language, it's not rocket science. 98 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:42.920 How many of you know that If you if the 99 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:48.000 Bible is like rocket science, well definitely we cannot understand it. Right. 100 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:55.120 I remember this physics professor, he has a PhD, and 101 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.319 he was he was going to have a tour talking 102 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:04.360 about Quang physics quantum mechanics in the academ several schools 103 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:09.199 and several institutions talking about this new theories on quantum 104 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:14.360 physics and quantum mechanics. So every day, for two straight weeks, 105 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.160 every night, for three to four hours, he would conduct 106 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:22.199 a lecture and every night pan lecturing Ama the brightest 107 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.959 of the bright Samanasa physics. 108 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.279 So he'd go there give his lecture, of course, a 109 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:27.600 physics teacher. 110 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:39.439 Lecture. So after one week of every night Nagli lecturer, Shah, Driver, 111 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.519 I don't think i can go to this next you know, 112 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.680 lecture because I'm feeling sick. Maybe I'll take a break, 113 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.439 to which Sabin and driver Sir, I don't you know 114 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.000 you don't have to take a break. Huh. You know 115 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.920 I've been listening to you every night for the whole week, 116 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.839 and I can do your lectures, even your hat. I 117 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.639 have memorized that. Okay, so you don't have So I'll 118 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:09.879 let's switch roles. 119 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.279 I'll be the physics professor. You will be the chauffeur. 120 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:20.519 Okay. Sure. When he goes to the lecture hall, so 121 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.879 he began to the lecture coul he got everything perfectly. 122 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:31.079 The mannerism they he observed and sow. After the lecture 123 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.799 three hour lectur, yay. And then he was about to 124 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.519 get off the stage, and suddenly there are a lot 125 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:45.960 of hands raised questions, and so he pointed to one person, 126 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.279 and this person began to ask this complicated question about 127 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:55.799 quantum physics, into which he said, is. 128 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:56.440 That your question? 129 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.879 That question is so simple that even my driver could 130 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.960 answer it. Come on here, can you answer that? And 131 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:09.279 he goes off the stage. I mean, you know, if 132 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:12.600 it's rocket science, it's hard. For example, let me do 133 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.080 it practically. I want you to you have a partner, 134 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.639 your seat mate, right, I want you to explain, within 135 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:25.840 thirty seconds to your seat mate, Einstein's general theory of relativity. 136 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.720 Anyone here can do it in thirty seconds to begin 137 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:36.639 on premio nepastor Ryan. We can't write it's rocket science. 138 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:41.200 It's complicated. But again, to your seat mate, can you 139 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:48.600 share with your seat mate? Okay, God's greatest commandment go 140 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:59.840 for God so loved the world. It's not rocket science. 141 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:08.039 It's simple. It's near. It's near us. That's what worse 142 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.320 force ys, the world of God is very near you. 143 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:18.799 How near it's in your mouth, how near it's in 144 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:24.919 your heart so that you may obey it. So that 145 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.360 you may obey it. It's near our mouths so that 146 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.799 we can talk about it to our friends, to our classmates, 147 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.159 to our officemates. Right, it's near so that we can 148 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.519 talk about it. But the question are you talking about 149 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.879 it with your friends, with your classmates, with your office mats? 150 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:51.279 Simple like mom money? But are we doing it? It's 151 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:56.080 so near that it's in our heart so that we 152 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.559 may obey it. The reason why we want to know 153 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:05.000 and understand God's word so that we can obey God. 154 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.080 That's the bottom line. This is not a display in 155 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.519 your living room. Right, This is not supposed to be 156 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:17.200 a display in your living room. Holy Bible, it's so 157 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.080 holy that you cannot touch it. No, it's meant for 158 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.360 us to be near our hearts and our mouths so 159 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:29.799 that we can obey it. Why. Because if truth is near, 160 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:39.960 obedience is expected. If truth is near, obedience is expected. 161 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.200 If it's not clear, how can you obey it? Application 162 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.600 is possible because scripture is accessible. We can apply it 163 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:53.919 because it's so near us. 164 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.279 It's so accessible. It's so simple. 165 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:03.679 God's word is near. But not only that God's. 166 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.919 Word is clear, say that to your seat mate. 167 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:12.799 God's word is clear. Now if we push back a little, okay, 168 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.120 if we go back a little. 169 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:16.519 Moses gave this. 170 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.960 Commandment in Deuteronomy chapter six, which is one of the 171 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:25.879 most famous commandments. Deuteronomy chapter six, verse six to seven, Sabaa, 172 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.440 These commandments that I give you today are to be 173 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:35.279 on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about 174 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.240 them when you sit at home, Okay, when you walk 175 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.120 along the road, when you lie down, when you get 176 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:47.120 up latlan, but tagisimo patulukmo bagla laga, everywhere you go, 177 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:53.080 you talk about it. Wow, this is to be a lifestyle. 178 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.000 The scripture, the Bible is supposed to be part of 179 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:02.679 our life. But what's in here is Abiah. Impress them 180 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:06.200 on your children, talk to them. You don't need to 181 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:10.039 wait for your children to have a degree in order 182 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.159 to engage them with God's word. 183 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.519 Even as little as they are. 184 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.639 You can do it already. 185 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:21.320 You know. 186 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.519 The public reading of the scripture was very, very common. 187 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.159 The scripture was read over and over again. That's why 188 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:34.480 the culture and tradition of Israel was preserved. Because orally 189 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.159 in tradition in La they would publicly speak of God's 190 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:43.440 word of this of what God did for Israel. Okay, 191 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.080 public reading of scripture. It was meant for the people 192 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.440 to hear, all of the people to hear the word 193 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.559 of the Lord, not just for the intellectual elite. Okay. 194 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.440 In fact, if you go to Nayemiah chapter eight, verses 195 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.720 one to three, remember when Israel was exiled to Babylon 196 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.639 for seventy years, and then when they came back by 197 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:12.200 God's sovereign hand. Okay, I think nothing in the last time. 198 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:14.720 When they came. 199 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:19.679 Back, Ezra, who was the priestident, gathered. 200 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.080 All the people, all the men and women of Israel 201 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:23.399 during that time. 202 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.039 And he began to read the word of God. 203 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:33.159 It says there from dawn till noonday, the public reading 204 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.080 of scriptures, not on the pastor Ryan pan, going from 205 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:40.399 non dawn till noonday. And they made upon Sara visit 206 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:44.519 within Elam. Okay. So, but imagine it's a public reading 207 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:49.080 so that they could understand what God was saying, so 208 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.200 that they could be reminded of what God had done 209 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.360 for them, Remember they were in exile. In fact, when 210 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.200 Paul was writing his epistles, his letters to the different church. 211 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.840 It was called a circuit letter. 212 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:10.000 It was meant to be read aloud to the synagogue 213 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.840 or to the church, and then for the people got 214 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.279 to make copies and to share it to the other, 215 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.639 their relatives or their friends, their oi, cause there's fear 216 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:22.799 of relationship. 217 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:28.000 Okay, So it's not just okay t Lanta. In fact, 218 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:29.360 let me show you one. 219 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:34.159 Particular text of his epistle in Ephesians chapter six. 220 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:34.960 You know this. 221 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.919 It's a quotation from the Ten Commandments Ephesian six, verse 222 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.480 one to three. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, 223 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:46.159 for this is right. Honor your father and mother. This 224 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.960 is the first commandment where they promise that it may 225 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.879 go well with you and that you may live long 226 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.960 in the land. Know this. Paul did not say parents, 227 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:03.440 tell your children to obey you in the Lord. He 228 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.320 wrote children. He was addressing the children, children and talking 229 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.919 to you, obey your parents in the Lord. 230 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:14.960 Because Bible is so. 231 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:23.600 Plain and clear and near children can understand. And I 232 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:29.039 remember when my own children, Okay, I asked that we 233 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.120 we of course, umpisa, we asked them to read the Bible, 234 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:37.799 some simula, some picture, your mamma, my mamma, pictures and 235 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.840 all of that. Right, But I remember as we continue 236 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:46.759 to engage them with God's word. You know, Danny, my eldest, 237 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.000 when he was four years old, he began to have 238 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:56.200 a he began to question some things. At that time. 239 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.759 With four years olds, she could not really read, but 240 00:16:58.879 --> 00:16:59.759 we were impressing the. 241 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:00.679 Bible to her. 242 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.640 And one night she asked us that why is it 243 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:12.640 that I want to obey you? But it's hard because 244 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:18.440 sometimes I boss my you know, boss around you. Oh, 245 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:24.799 then we explain the scripture, we explain the gospel, we explain. 246 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.839 At four years old, she gave her life to Jesus Christ. 247 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.759 And my youngest Luigius now nine years old. Last starting 248 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:42.519 last year, Sabian, Mom, can I use another Bible because 249 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.279 other illustrated Bibles? Can I use what he calls the 250 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.079 big Bible? I mean the one you're using the ESB 251 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.519 Bible to read? Okay instead of that? Because you know, 252 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:02.200 as he continued to engage, he understanding rue. So even 253 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:03.799 at eight years old he is nine now, this was 254 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.519 last year, he began to read what we're reading right now. 255 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:14.319 Your children can do it. You know. My third my 256 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.000 son Si John, when he three years ago and he 257 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.559 was eleven, Okay, in their school, they were asked to 258 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:30.640 memorize Hebrew's chapter eleven. The entire chapter at eleven is 259 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:41.720 a class Mila sa Hebrews Chapter eleven. Imagine that. That's 260 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.440 why I challenge myself. Okay, this year I'm gonna memorize 261 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:50.079 some chapter one hundred and nineteen, but thinking one seventy verses. 262 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:55.200 But I'm just one third of the way. But anyway, 263 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.440 memorization of scripture is just one aspect. I mean there's reading, 264 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:04.279 there's there's memorizing, meditating. I mean, all of that is 265 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:09.359 important because this is life unto us. You know how 266 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:14.880 the Bible describes itself. These are spirit and life to us. 267 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:21.279 This is important. Now you know the problem why people 268 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:25.119 don't read the Bible. It's not because it isn't clear. 269 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.319 The problem why people don't read the Bible is precisely 270 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:36.440 because it's so clear and it's so simple. Because if 271 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:43.160 they read it, they'll be accountable. Because if you read this, 272 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:51.720 thou shall not steal, Thou shalt not gay murder, or 273 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:59.079 Jesus put it be angry in your heart, that's murder. 274 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.799 If we read this, it exposes things in our hearts. 275 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.079 You know, Thesami said in some one nineteen that the 276 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.640 bord of God is a lamp and a light unto us. 277 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.680 Peter actually echoes this in Tecod Peter one, verse nineteen, 278 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.000 when it says, the prophecy of Scripture is like a 279 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.599 shining light in the midst of darkness. 280 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.720 See this Bible. 281 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:36.960 It shines, it puts, it puts light. Okay, it becomes 282 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.920 a beacon of light, not just to reveal the darkness 283 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.799 around us, but to reveal the darkness inside of us, 284 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:51.359 in our hearts, in our souls. It reveals the greed, 285 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:59.200 the unforgiveness, the lusts, and all the other things that 286 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.279 in our hearts. That's why people don't want to read 287 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:11.599 this word. See the law is perfect. The law is perfect. 288 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:16.720 There's nothing wrong with the Word of God. But there's 289 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:21.680 something wrong with our hearts. I want you to closure 290 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:26.960 eyes very quickly. Close your eyes. Imagine there's an intensity 291 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:32.920 twelve earthquake in this room. It's pitch black. There's only 292 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:38.759 one exit door, and it's not to your left. It's 293 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.160 somewhere in this room, but you don't know where. You're 294 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.559 not familiar. It's pitch black. There's only one way out, 295 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.599 one exit, one way to be saved. You don't know 296 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:57.160 where to go. The word of God is like a 297 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:00.599 flashlight that's going to be given to you, point you 298 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.519 to the way out. You can open your eyes. 299 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:04.519 You see. 300 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.759 The Law was that beacon of life to point you 301 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:12.559 to the door, which is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, I 302 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:17.119 am the gate, I am the door, I am the way. 303 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:22.160 This Bible was a tutor to point us to Jesus Christ. 304 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:28.920 This revelation of God is to point us to redemption. 305 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:39.960 The Bible, which is perfect, the written word of God, 306 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.200 is supposed to point us to the living word of God. 307 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:48.119 Jesus Christ. Let me read very quickly. Is the Romans 308 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:53.599 Chapter seven says in Romans Chapter seven, Verse one of 309 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:57.720 thetis to make this point, do you not know, brothers, 310 00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:59.680 For I'm speaking to those who know the Lord. The 311 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.599 law binding on a person only as long as he lives. 312 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.640 For a married woman is bound by law to her 313 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:09.880 husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she 314 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.559 is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will 315 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.720 be called an adult rest if she lives with another 316 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:20.759 man while her husband is alive, but if her husband dies, 317 00:23:20.839 --> 00:23:23.599 she is free from the law. And if she marries 318 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.920 another man, she is not an adulter rist. Okay, So 319 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:32.440 what is Paul talking about here? He is actually alluding 320 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.240 to the church, to us God's people. We are the wife, 321 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:41.880 we are married, okay, to the law. Now a look 322 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:46.000 of Valentine's da, I mean Valentines. So let me ask 323 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:51.880 cynidite young single ladies, single ladies in the house a 324 00:23:52.160 --> 00:24:01.519 lamb very quickly condolam, sorry, I'm a lap it. Can 325 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:12.319 you stand up? What's your name? Hi? How do you? Okay? No, 326 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:19.599 Mike cherry Lyn, chary Lyne, cherry Lyne. Hello, there you go, 327 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:25.400 all right, so see me chary line. Can you tell 328 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:32.519 us a new young you list mon ideal husband more? Okay, 329 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.640 I'll prompt you, for example, in terms of looks at 330 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:46.759 youra sur face, see ideal? Okay, it's okay, pa safe 331 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.519 if you had a list right or see on. 332 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:59.200 Our lab specific nada CAUs s what I'm bringing? WILLI 333 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:04.400 lord in your your physical appearance? It's just a bonus along. 334 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:12.119 But then Lord an e bonus? What's your answer? 335 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:14.519 What if? Okay? Sure? 336 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:17.279 Parents is all am, I'll give you wisdom. But the 337 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:22.000 other things what are the other things? The looks cigurable 338 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:40.079 sabotage sabotage, yeah, sigurable omna right now Korea whatever. 339 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:44.640 In line with my la. 340 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:51.960 Specific okay lake in Korea. 341 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:59.920 Cigurubo or most of them see lemon ga ladies. 342 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:07.839 All right, okay, how about the physique, Sabi lord, we 343 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:15.759 began choice physic young physical Yeah, because young some someone like, 344 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:22.599 can you take Samson? Do you know that Samson? Indeed 345 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:27.839 madom physically fifth the Bible says he was strong and 346 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:33.960 people were wondering why he was strong anyway, okay, so 347 00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:48.640 when he needs a Samson, then you you very spiritual, 348 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:53.599 very you know, no more indicator judge okay, the people 349 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:54.200 will judge. 350 00:26:54.240 --> 00:27:00.519 Heard you ba normal. How about intellect? 351 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:10.759 A very intellectual smart in terms of human educational on 352 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:17.799 a backgrounds is in line with gods smart mming alarm 353 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:18.359 with gods. 354 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:23.519 They're given an iron, given a young o. All kay, 355 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:31.680 start working, okay, so someone we are giving that SPIRITU 356 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:36.759 Walsh loves God loves and know so in terms of intellect, 357 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:48.000 but you know my here I mean I did. 358 00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:51.880 S are you more more? 359 00:27:52.519 --> 00:28:02.759 And with H. C. Bas Nickson pastor and pastor Dannis 360 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:14.000 and this is called mayaman Canino yama envision. 361 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:26.839 Thank you so much Cherylyn, What if God will give her? 362 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:34.160 Are you an im alista that perfect person? Yeah, that 363 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:42.000 looks like the pape And then physic Nino Samson, Right, 364 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:50.599 Casino Nino, Let's say see another La see Einstein, and 365 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:58.599 then Cassing funny pastor Nixon, and then Cayamanino chin kitan 366 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:05.200 all right, but godly there was album of godly spiritual 367 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:10.000 italy indeed and godly and spiritual perfect. Oh, he would 368 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:16.680 always be perfect in terms of God's God's will and 369 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:24.039 God's law you knew in you. But the side issue 370 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:30.759 there is He's so perfect indition aka kamalay and every 371 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.640 time the man talian a ka kamala, it will be noticed. 372 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:42.319 He never makes a mistake. The inside issue being married 373 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:48.400 to someone perfect right indition kamala perfect battalio better perfectly God. 374 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.480 But every time we make a mistake, small or big, 375 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:57.160 it will be obvious and it will be stated every 376 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:08.240 single day La malampa malin salita malingaamo, it will be revealed. 377 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:12.839 You imagine that living like that, we will live lives 378 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:16.599 that are condemned. No, maally, you want to be married 379 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:21.319 to a perfect person. Again, That's exactly what Paul is 380 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:26.519 saying here, this law is perfect. We're married to this, 381 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.359 and every time we relate to this, it will point 382 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:34.160 out the bad things. It will point out the darkness 383 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:39.160 inside of us. It's like a shining light. Ops malayu 384 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:47.039 in mo ops malayusin abimo, opps malayan gamo, and he 385 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:53.279 would always be right right. So we have a problem, 386 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:58.200 a dilemma. We are bound to live with this person 387 00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:02.839 all our lives, but if her husband dies, she is 388 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.039 released from the law of marriage. But if not, we 389 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.559 will be called an adulterer. Now there's only one problem. 390 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:18.039 The Bible is not only perfect, it is also eternal. 391 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:26.799 It will never pass away. So what's the solution. The 392 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:31.160 solution is found in verse four. Likewise, my brother, you 393 00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:33.400 also have died to the law, to the body of 394 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.640 Jesus Christ. It's not the law who will die, it's us. 395 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.880 We will die through the body of Jesus Christ, so 396 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.480 that we may belong to another, to him who has 397 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:49.960 been raised from the dead. Listen as I wrap this up. 398 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:57.720 This written word, this written revelation of God points us 399 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:02.759 to the living Word of God, Jesus Christ, and the 400 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.759 interplay interaction of both. They are distinct but separate the 401 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.759