WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:05.400 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, Episode five. I 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.000 am your host, Josh Monday. If you don't know me, 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:11.720 I'm a Christian rapper, devoted husband, father, father, and Army veteran. 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.560 And this is Wednesday Service brought to you by Cult 5 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:19.359 of Conspiracy Podcast. Thank you Jonathan, Thank you Jacob for 6 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.399 allowing me to have this Wednesday Service. I really appreciate it, 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.120 and thank you Lord for allowing us as well. So 8 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:32.799 I appreciate everybody's prayer that prayed for my son. He 9 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:38.000 so on February first, a few nights ago, at one 10 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.679 ten am, he was born and he was only twenty 11 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:45.119 one weeks and four days and according to the hospitals 12 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.399 then that's not a viable age. So he did pass 13 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.960 away and it was very very traumatic for me and 14 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.359 my wife. I just got back from the hospital yesterday 15 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.719 and my wife was you know, it was traumatic for 16 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.000 my wife, but she had to go through the whole 17 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:05.000 whole entire delivery process and the hospital and what they 18 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:09.519 do is they they kind of they assessed the situation 19 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.480 and when they know it's not viable, then they just 20 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.159 induce you. They put some pills in her mouth that 21 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:22.040 kind of slowly digested, and it lasted about thirty minutes 22 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:25.480 and then it started the contractions. And what happened was 23 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.799 we went to the hospital. You guys deserve to know 24 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:29.840 this because you know, you guys were all praying for 25 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.319 me and stuff. So when we went to the hospital, 26 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.599 my wife kind of started having contractions. So we went in. 27 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.159 She was on bed rest, like for a whole entire week. 28 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.120 She was doing whatever she could to keep the baby 29 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:43.239 in the womb. And her water had already broke, you know, 30 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.560 so she's kind of, you know, doing her best to 31 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.760 keep hydrated, keep fluid, and she was on bed rest 32 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:53.239 and she was such a soldier that she was even 33 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:54.840 you know, not even getting up to use the rstion, 34 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.680 you know, just bedpanning and everything. Such a beautiful, you 35 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.040 know mom she is, you know, for for you know 36 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.000 what a beautiful wife and a beautiful mom. You know. 37 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.680 She she just did her very best to keep that baby. Uh, 38 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.360 his name is Aspen, his middle name is Psalms, and 39 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.280 his last name is Monday. So he he, She was 40 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.840 doing everything to keep Aspen in her her womb, you know. 41 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:25.960 And what happened was she started having contractions, and well 42 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.520 she she started having contractions and and they were they 43 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.439 were hitting like every thirty minutes. So I took her 44 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:37.639 to the hospital and the doctor was like, we need 45 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:41.479 to do an exam and see how dilated you are. 46 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.560 And they looked with this this is this thing that's 47 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.560 like it's called the speculum, and they looked and she said, oh, 48 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.400 I could see the foot. So I was like, oh no, 49 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.240 you know, those contractions that my wife was having was 50 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:59.599 kind of pushing the baby slowly, slowly and more down. 51 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.039 Now she went on bed rest for even another like 52 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:07.520 fourteen hours and stopped the contractions. So I was like, okay, 53 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:10.360 this is good news. But the doctor was telling us 54 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.240 that the baby doesn't have enough fluid in the placenta. 55 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.919 You know, there's no fluid showing, so that means that 56 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.719 the only fluid that's being produced is when the baby 57 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.919 basically goes to the bathroom or my wife drinks, and 58 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.000 then what happens is it goes through the placenta and 59 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.479 then it leaks out where the water broke. So he 60 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.000 was kind of in a tough spot, you know, and 61 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.360 you guys were all praying for us, and like I said, 62 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.159 I really I super appreciate everybody that was praying. And 63 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.360 I would have never put my business out there if 64 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.319 I didn't need prayer. You know, I needed prayer. You know, 65 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.840 this is like the Guinness Book of World Records. I 66 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.120 think was something like twenty one weeks the baby's born. 67 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.800 My baby's twenty one weeks, four days. They're telling us 68 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.319 that if the baby's born at twenty one weeks, nothing 69 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.479 we could do. If the baby's born at twenty one 70 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.919 weeks four days, nothing we could do. If the baby's 71 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:01.879 born at twenty two weeks, maybe slight we would maybe try, 72 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.520 but so might the prayers I was trying to ask 73 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.000 everybody was to keep that baby in the womb, and 74 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.520 you guys all prayed. I really appreciate everybody on my 75 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.039 YouTube was praying. I'm sure God received a lot of 76 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:16.079 prayers for this baby, But I personally the way I 77 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.079 feel as a man and as a Christian man, I 78 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.079 believe what the Bible says that absent from the body 79 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.120 present with the Lord. So I believe that when Aspen 80 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:31.040 passed away as he was being delivered, which he didn't 81 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.560 come out with being being able to breathe, he died 82 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.759 during delivery. I believe as soon as he passed away 83 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.720 and he died, fully, I believe that absent from the body, 84 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.439 he's present with the Lord. And I was going to 85 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.360 be his heavenly father obviously, or his heavenly dad, I 86 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.800 would say, and not heavenly, I'm sorry, his earthly dad, right. 87 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:59.040 I was in that position to be his earthly dad. 88 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.759 And I feel like I could, you know, do my 89 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.800 very best to be a great dad. I got three kids, 90 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:07.519 and then he would be my fourth, you know, my 91 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.759 only son. And I could definitely try my best to 92 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.319 be a great earthly dad for this baby. But what 93 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.519 better father, what you know, for my baby to have 94 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.240 than our father in heaven, you know. So I believe 95 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.160 absent from the body present with the Lord, he's with Jesus, 96 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:25.959 he's with God, he's with the Holy Spirit, you know, 97 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:31.160 he's he's up in heaven. And and I just pray 98 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.399 that the way that heaven works, you know, the baby. 99 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.160 The Bible's not clear that we're gonna go see our 100 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:39.839 family and hang out with our family, like, you know, 101 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:42.279 I don't know what our role is in heaven, you know, 102 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:47.439 but I you know, I hope that it's that heaven 103 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.079 is like you know, you get to heaven and you 104 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.120 see your family and you recognize each other, you know, 105 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.240 when you're in your glorified heavenly bodies. But you know, 106 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.959 it was just different because my wife has had me 107 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.639 carriages in the past, and that's you know, that's basically 108 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.920 that all that's taken care of in the in the womb, 109 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.759 and you know, blood comes out and it's you know, 110 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.439 we've had a few of those miscarriages before and those 111 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.079 definitely affect me and it definitely affects my wife. This time, 112 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.160 we had twins and one of them passed away in 113 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:21.920 the womb, and then we had you know, Aspen was 114 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.160 still there and he was lasting. He was doing great. 115 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:32.160 So but this time it was different because she uh 116 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.480 because of the water breaking and and you know just 117 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.000 how long it it took at least a week for 118 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.199 everything to kind of happen, and he was in the 119 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.560 womb and just knowing that you can't do anything about 120 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.639 like trying to replenish that water. And and another thing 121 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.199 is he was breached, and when you're breached, it means 122 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:54.319 that you're coming feet first, and that's another thing. So 123 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.319 like everything that could go wrong was was kind of 124 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.800 going wrong, you know, So I let it God's will. 125 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.439 If it's his will, I let it be done. And 126 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.040 nothing I could do, you know, I just I've gained 127 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.959 a lot of resilience from being in the military. I 128 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.160 was in the Army, and I've been through resilience classes, 129 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.759 and i went through basic training, and I went through deployment, 130 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.399 and I went through different scenarios that make you prepare, 131 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.720 prepare you for life. So when anything that I've ever 132 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.319 been through in the military, like nothing I've been in 133 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.439 the civilian world even compares to that. So I always 134 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:33.800 look at it like I always look at it like 135 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.759 like anything I could do in the civilian world wouldn't 136 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.040 ever compare to what I had to go through in 137 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:42.439 the army. So I feel that this scenario, even though 138 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:47.240 it was it was very hard. I think, I'm okay. 139 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.959 You know, my wife, it's harder for her because she's 140 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:54.360 used to having the baby move around inside of her 141 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.160 and now the baby's you know, out and gone, you know, 142 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.680 so that's a different connection. Me as the father of 143 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.399 the baby, I have the connection as well. But you know, 144 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.319 the connection that I had that kind of hurt me 145 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.199 was that it would be my first son. You know, 146 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.480 I have three daughters, and my wife doesn't have my 147 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.240 wife's mom, uh and and her dad, they don't they 148 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.639 don't have any grandkids that are that are boys. They're 149 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.879 all girls. So we were kind of very excited to 150 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.079 have our first boy. And uh, you know, so that connection, 151 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:29.480 it definitely it hurts. But when you're a Christian and 152 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:32.279 you have faith in the Lord, and you have faith 153 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.120 and and and you and knowing that all everything you 154 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.279 do in life is to try to get to heaven. 155 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:42.159 For God to give my baby boy a a like 156 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.360 a straight to heaven pass, some people might feel like 157 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.559 that's terrible, and that's horrible, but I have faith that 158 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.440 he went to heaven and he doesn't have to go 159 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.240 through everything we have to go through here, the struggle, 160 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.919 the pain, the agony, the you know, the spiritual battles, 161 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:02.759 that the devil can't touch him like he could touch 162 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.279 maybe my other kids in different ways or you know, 163 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.559 influence my kids in other ways. You know. So I 164 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:10.639 feel like he just had a first like a straight 165 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.559 get out of jail free boom, straight to heaven. So 166 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:17.480 in a way, when you look at it, and from 167 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.159 a Christian standpoint and a spiritual standpoint and not the physical. 168 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.360 The physical. Yes, it hurts, you know, hurt my feelings. 169 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.080 And we they allow you to have the baby in 170 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.960 the room for as long as you want, you know, 171 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:34.600 to to you know, some people they you know, they 172 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.879 they heal differently, you know, so that was the hard thing, 173 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:39.960 you know, to have the baby in the room, you know, 174 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.399 and they you know, it was just that was very difficult. 175 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.240 But anyways, I just want to tell you, guys, from 176 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.559 the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my 177 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.120 wife's heart, thank you guys for the prayers. I see 178 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.159 the comments that you left below on Spotify that you 179 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.480 were you prayed for us, and man when when a 180 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.279 lot of people are praying at once, I'm sure the 181 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.759 Lord you know, loves that, you know, because you know, 182 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.120 he knows that everybody has compassion that's praying, and you know, 183 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.519 and a passion for what we do here, you know. 184 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:10.960 So like I said, I really appreciate you, and I 185 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.159 thank you, and I really do. I really appreciate it. 186 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.840 So but the show must go on, right, so we 187 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.559 need to get back to the Bible. So let's let's 188 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:25.519 go ahead and do that. Let's jump to Matthew eighteen 189 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.399 and uh, it's going to be Matthew eighteen to one 190 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.399 and everybody that's listening. One thing I want to ask 191 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.159 is I love to see the comments on Spotify. I 192 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.240 love to see the comments that you guys leave in 193 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.279 the review for Apple. I love to see that because 194 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.840 I don't really get to talk to you guys. And 195 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:46.559 if you guys do want to talk to me, just 196 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.480 feel free excuse me. A lot of you guys have 197 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:54.320 DM me at Josh Monday Underscore podcast. That is my Instagram, 198 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.759 so you can DM me, and if you have any questions, 199 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:01.759 if you have prayer request, or if you're going through 200 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.399 a spiritual battle in some way and you need some advice, 201 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.879 feel free to hit me up. But I do like 202 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.799 to see the comments below on Spotify, you know, saying 203 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:15.320 you know certain things you know like it kind of 204 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.559 it's in a way, it's kind of like you're communicating 205 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.639 to me, you know, because it's hard to I don't 206 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.360 know how many people are all listening to the show, 207 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.000 but it's a way you can communicate. And if you 208 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:26.559 want to take it one step further, you can always 209 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.440 DM me and I always answer, you know, I always answer, 210 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.720 even and in most moments you'll see me answer you guys. So, 211 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.919 like I said, thank you guys for the prayer and everything. 212 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:43.360 Just such an amazing, amazing how Christ works and how 213 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.720 the Body of Christ works. It's from the bottom of 214 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.559 my heart, thank you. So all right, So we're on 215 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:56.440 Matthew eighteen, verse one, and the title of this verse 216 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:06.000 it says who is the Greatest? So it says at 217 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:09.200 that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, who then 218 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.600 is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Then Jesus 219 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.159 called a little child to him, sat him in the 220 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.600 midst of them, and said, assuredly, I say to you, 221 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:23.200 unless you are converted and become a little children, you 222 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.600 will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, 223 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.639 whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest 224 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:34.399 in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one little child 225 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:42.559 like this in my name, receives me. So who is 226 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:49.080 the greatest? Like? Why are the disciples even arguing about that? 227 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:53.799 You know what, they're Jewish, So they're thinking that Jesus 228 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.639 is going to start a kingdom on earth, you know, 229 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:02.720 like an earthly kingdom, Like that's that's what they're they're 230 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.120 thinking that he's going to be a king on the earth, 231 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.200 he's going to be ruling. But really Jesus is talking 232 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:12.360 about the Kingdom of Heaven, which is where he is, 233 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.960 the king of kings, you know, the lord of lords. 234 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.679 He is. He holds the key to heaven, to Hell 235 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.200 and in the earth. So Jesus is letting him know 236 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.960 that you need to be as innocent as this child. 237 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:31.159 And also, like with with children, you could tell a 238 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:37.000 child like, you know, you could be like oh, and 239 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.159 then your child will be like is that a rooster? Like, yeah, 240 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.639 that's a rooster outside. They'll believe you, you know, so 241 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.600 you need to you know, it's really about believing in 242 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.120 Jesus whether you see him or not. Even though the 243 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:53.600 disciples saw Jesus for us, we don't get to see Jesus, 244 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:58.320 you know. So we got to understand that. And I say, 245 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.600 unless you converty be kime as little children, you will 246 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.519 no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, what does 247 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.639 Jesus say that we need to do. He says that 248 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:13.080 we need to be like a child. He actually says 249 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.120 we need to be born again. We need to be 250 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.480 born again for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Right, 251 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:24.120 so we need to be born again, So we need 252 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.399 to be innocent as a child. And also when you 253 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.120 come to the Bible, you need to come as a child. 254 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.799 Don't come as some theologian, some Harvard grads, some Yale 255 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.519 grad student. That's so smart and intelligent that you could 256 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.559 pick everything that the Bible says and say, oh, I 257 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.799 can counter that. I can counter that because the Bible 258 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.399 says this, well, science says this. What you need to 259 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.679 do is you need to take all your preconceived biases, 260 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.559 you place them to the side, and you read the 261 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:58.559 Bible knowing that this is the truth. Proverbs thirty verse 262 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.840 five says, do not add to the the word right. 263 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.120 It also says, I think it's in Deuteronomy. Do not 264 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.519 add to the word, because the word of God is pure. 265 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.440 All scriptures inspire by God is what Paul says, right 266 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.600 and two Timothy, All scriptures inspire by God. If you 267 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:19.759 understand also that God cannot lie Titus one two. It's 268 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.840 impossible for God to lie Hebrews six eighteen. You understand 269 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.519 that when you're listening to this Bible, you have to 270 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.960 accept it if you want to believe. If you want 271 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:34.159 to have faith, you have to accept it as absolute 272 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:39.600 truth because it's inspired by whom, by God. And then 273 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.960 everything that Jesus is saying, if you believe Jesus is 274 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:48.759 God and Jesus cannot lie, you need to take this seriously, right, 275 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.720 but you need to take it as a child, and 276 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:55.399 take all your traditions, take everything you've learned from your 277 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:59.720 pastor take everything you've learned from as a Baptist, non Baptist, 278 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.360 as a Pentecostal. This so all that stuff that you've learned, 279 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.759 place it to the side when you're reading the Word 280 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:07.879 of God because a a lot of this stuff is 281 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.799 traditions that man has placed upon religion. But this is 282 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.919 the Bible. Now, this is what this is the meat 283 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.120 well your pastor teaches you on Sunday. If they're teaching 284 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.440 you from the Bible, from the Word of God, then 285 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:27.240 that's great. But sometimes they mix man made traditions, man 286 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.159 made religion and all that stuff. When you think you're 287 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:32.120 a theologian and you're so smart and you know this, 288 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.679 and you know that you're placing that on the people 289 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.720 that you're teaching to, you need to come at the 290 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.759 Bible like a child. You need to come to God 291 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:47.679 like an innocent child, ready to receive the message, not 292 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:51.399 speak the message. You need to have two ears one mouth, 293 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.320 two ears to listen, one mouth to speak. Yes, but 294 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:57.279 you need to receive the word you understand. So you 295 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:01.639 need to come as a child. So that's hard for 296 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.039 people to do, because you know what, you have to 297 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.640 swallow your pride, put everything on the altar and allow 298 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.799 the Bible to teach you and allow you and your 299 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.680 pride and everything that's stopping you from receiving get place 300 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.720 to the side, your preconceived biases that you've learned and 301 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.880 been and put all this stuff in your mind, pull 302 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.279 that out, stick it to the side, and come to 303 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:31.039 the Bible like a child, and you will be the 304 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:35.920 greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. That's what Jesus is 305 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:39.559 all against religion, all against these Pharisees, letting him know like, 306 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.240 you guys are all filled with all these man made 307 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.680 traditions and things, and you're the way you're interpreting the Bible, 308 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.640 but you're wrong. So obviously Jesus is letting another wrong. 309 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:59.319 So Jesus warns of offenses. But whoever causes one of 310 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.920 these little ones who believe in me to sin, it 311 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.279 would be better for him to if a millstone were 312 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:07.240 hung around his neck and he were drowned in the 313 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:12.720 depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses, 314 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:17.200 for offenses must come, but woe to the man by 315 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:24.319 whom the offenses comes. So whoever causes one of these 316 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:27.519 little ones who believe in me to sin, it would 317 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.039 be better for him to have a millstone hung around 318 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.559 his neck and we were drowned to the depth of 319 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:47.640 the sea. So understand something that there's things that people 320 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.799 do to cause other people to stumble. And when the 321 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:58.000 person is saved, and he's saying, woe to those that 322 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:02.319 are causing those people to stumble, because those are Jesus's 323 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:06.440 little ones. Okay, he's connecting that verse to that verse. 324 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.480 So he's talking about the people that are coming to 325 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:13.519 him as a child whoa to those who were causing 326 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:21.559 them to sin. So there's bad influences in your life 327 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.680 that caused you to sin. But you as a as 328 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:29.839 a man and a woman, need to understand what are 329 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:32.519 what you know, what triggers would cause you to sin, 330 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.000 you know, so you have to also be mindful yourself 331 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.319 it's not just that person's fault all the way. It's 332 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.799 also your fault too for even putting yourself in that position. 333 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.279 But there are people that cause other people to sin, 334 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.640 whether it's a friend, whether it's a person that is 335 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:54.440 a drug dealer, whether it's a person that does pornography. 336 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:58.039 Those those women and men that are having sex on screen, 337 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:03.759 they're causing people to stumble. They are ruining marriages, they 338 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.759 are ruining people's sex life. They are ruining people like that. 339 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.680 You know, people that are causing people to you know, 340 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.200 like bars that are open, and there's people that have 341 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.039 problems with drinking and they're driving down the street and 342 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.799 they're trying to get right with the lord, and they 343 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.480 finally get right with the lord, and then they get 344 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:22.400 in an argument with their wife and then they see 345 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.000 that bar, you know, or their friends says, hey, man, 346 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:27.839 let's go to the bar and have a drink. Oh 347 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.839 I don't drink anymore. Oh dude, just have one. Okay, 348 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:38.319 bloom drink and then boom, you are stumbling. So and 349 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.240 then also there's something if you want to take it 350 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:46.000 to the absolute extreme, there's some people that have done sends. 351 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:50.160 Two actual little ones, actual children, and that is like 352 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:53.799 a generational curse when that happens where it's causing that 353 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.039 kid to stumble and then maybe he stumbles on somebody else. 354 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.079 I know, you guys are probably understanding what I mean, 355 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.480 but that is absolute terrible. But he's saying it's better 356 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.079 for him to have a millstone or hung around his 357 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:09.039 neck if he were drowned in the depths of the sea. 358 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:13.359 Woe to the world because of offenses. Now, let's let's 359 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:17.559 we can go to the strongs accordance real quick and 360 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:24.519 let's go to Matthew chapter six. Excuse me, and uh, 361 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.279 let's see what he means by that, because the Greek 362 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.359 is very precise. So that's one thing I do, Like 363 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:41.000 you know about the about the Greek, woe to them 364 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.680 because of offenses, it's probably what it means. But I 365 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.920 just want to make sure. The movable stick or trigger 366 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.640 of a trap a trap, a snare, So woe to 367 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:59.680 the world because of the snares, For snares must come, 368 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.680 but go to the man whom they the offense comes 369 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.039 or the trap an impediment placed in the way causing 370 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.200 one to stumble or fall. That's what that means. It's 371 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:19.839 a strong g scondalong scandaloon. That's what that word means 372 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:23.119 applied to Jesus, whose person and career was so contrary 373 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.920 to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah. They're 374 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:30.599 rejected by him, by their made shipbreak of their salvation. 375 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.319 Any person or thing which is entrapped, drawn into air 376 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:39.039 or sin so go to the world because of snares 377 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.039 or traps or like I said, the world would be 378 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:46.240 the bars. The world would be the drugs. The world 379 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:50.720 would be the prostitution. The world would be massage parlors. 380 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:55.079 The world would be strip clubs. The world would be pornography. 381 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.880 The world would be uh, you know, addiction to money, 382 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.279 or addiction to gambling, or addiction to anything. You know 383 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:09.680 that that's what the world would be. Alcohol, drugs, bars, clubs, 384 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.160 people looking, you know, addicted to women, whatever it is. 385 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.599 You know, it's saying, whoa to the man by whom 386 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:25.680 the snares come or the sin comes. Yeah, so understand 387 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:29.160 it's it's it's very serious. That's why Jesus is saying 388 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:31.720 it's very serious, and we don't understand that. You know, 389 00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:35.960 believe me, I've been that that guy that is causing 390 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:39.599 my friends to stumble. I used to be I used 391 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:41.720 to love to drink. I used to love to do drugs. 392 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:43.359 I used to love to do cocaine. I used to 393 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:45.839 love to chase women. I used to love to go 394 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:47.839 to parties. I used to love to do drugs. Like 395 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:51.559 I was that guy I was causing people to stumble. 396 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:55.720 And I understand that Jesus is talking to these people 397 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:58.759 in this day and age. But you can also there's 398 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:02.880 there's a spiritual aspect that you can learn from these verses. Okay, 399 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:08.079 so he is talking to the Jews at this very moment, 400 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.279 but this app this can be an application to our 401 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:16.079 lives that we're supposed to learn from this. If your 402 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.359 hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off 403 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.480 and cast it from you, it is better for you 404 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.200 to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having 405 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:29.480 two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 406 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.920 If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out 407 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.440 and cast it from you, it is better for you 408 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.359 to enter into life with one eye rather than having 409 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.000 two eyes to be cast into hell fire. So this 410 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.079 is serious. You know that he's not literally telling you 411 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:47.359 to cut your eye out, but what he's trying to 412 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:50.319 say to you is if your eyes causing you to stubble, 413 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:53.279 if you have like lust of the eyes, you need 414 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.279 to correct that, you know, you need to correct that. 415 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.480 If you have a problem with, for example, watching your 416 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:04.359 phone and let's say you look at Instagram and it 417 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.720 causes you to stumble, and then it castes you to 418 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:10.839 get into you know, pornography or whatever, then then your 419 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:14.759 phone needs to be put somewhere or locked some kind 420 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:17.400 of lock on it to where you can't access that, 421 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.240 or you need to take that and put it upstairs 422 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:22.519 and have a charge next to your wife when you 423 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:24.279 go and do stuff instead of having it with you 424 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:26.240 in the bathroom or having it wherever. It's causing you 425 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:29.839 to stumble. If you have some kind of trigger, it 426 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.440 actually says right here, movable stick or trigger of a trap, 427 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:36.319 like a trigger that causes you to do certain things. 428 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:39.079 Causes you to smoke cigarettes, cause you to smoke weed, 429 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:41.599 causes you to think about doing some type of drug. 430 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:45.759 You need to those triggers. You need to correct those, 431 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:50.640 you know. So that's really what I think the gist 432 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:55.680 of this versus UH talking about that if your hand 433 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.920 or foot causes you to sind cut it off, like, 434 00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:02.240 cast it from you. Whatever causing you to sin, you 435 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:04.400 need to cast it from you. If there's a woman 436 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:07.559 in your life that you're not equally yoked with that 437 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.920 is causing you to sin, or beating you or hating you, 438 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:13.559 or if there's a man in your life that's that's 439 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.440 hating you or beating you, or cheating on you, or 440 00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.200 causing adultery, whatever it is. Like you see, you need 441 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:21.839 to cut it off. Because it's better to cut off 442 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.880 that relationship than it is to for you to get 443 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.000 and go to hell. That's what Jesus is saying. You know, 444 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:34.599 I'm not saying that to stop the marriage. That that's different. 445 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:36.960 That's gonna be a little bit later. I'm just telling you, like, 446 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:39.039 if there's somebody in your life causing you to stumble, 447 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:44.640 cut them out of your life, and do it in 448 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:49.519 a Christian sense. Once you're saved, you are now Jesus's 449 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:55.440 little one. You don't need to allow people to influence 450 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.759 you at that point that's going to cause you to stumble. 451 00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:00.039 If there's people in your life that are causing you 452 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.640 just stumble that are not saved, cut them out. If 453 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:06.359 there's family members that are not saved that are causing 454 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:09.359 you to stumble. You can keep them at a distance. 455 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:11.640 Say I love you and I understand, but if you're 456 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:13.160 causing me to do this, I don't want to be 457 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:16.559 around you. Because it's better that you don't live your 458 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:20.559 life stumbling and stumbling with this person than it is 459 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:22.319 for you to end up in hell. You see what 460 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:24.640 I mean. It's better. This is a physical reality we 461 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.880 live in, but we're really living for the Kingdom of 462 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:36.400 God because we're saved. Now the parable of the lost sheep, 463 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:40.880 and this is definitely a lot of us were lost sheep. 464 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:47.920 That's for sure, the parable of the lost sheep. Take heed, 465 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:51.720 this is Matthew eighteen, verse ten. Take heed that you 466 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:54.519 do not despise one of these little ones. For I 467 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:58.720 say to you that in heaven they're angels. Always see 468 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:00.680 the face of my Father, who is in heaven, for 469 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.599 the Son of Man has come to save that which 470 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:09.839 was lost. Take heed to what you despise of one 471 00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:11.720 of these little ones, For I say to you that 472 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.400 in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father, 473 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.279 who is in heaven, For the son of Man has 474 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:23.119 come to save the lost. So what do you think 475 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.119 if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of 476 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.440 them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety nine 477 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.839 and go to the mountains to seek that one who 478 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:34.799 is straying? And if he should find it, as surely 479 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.240 I say to you, he rejoices more than the sheep, 480 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.000 then the other ninety nine that did not go astray. 481 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.480 Even so, it is not the will of your father 482 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:45.440 who is in heaven that one of these little ones 483 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:51.720 should perish. So we I mean, I was definitely one 484 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.400 of those lost sheep that God found because I was, 485 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.960 you know, before I joined the army and before I 486 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.000 got my stuff together, I was definitely a loss to sheep. 487 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.799 And thank God because there are these ninety nine that 488 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:10.720 are that are following being obedient, going to church the 489 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:14.599 whole life and never tasting that party life, never tasting 490 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:20.319 that drug, never tasting that prostitution, never tasting that let 491 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.240 me hook up with this woman, this woman, this woman, 492 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.960 never tasting that club life or going to parties or 493 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.519 never they never tasted that worldly things. They just continue 494 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.720 to just follow God and and you know, probably didn't 495 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.440 have sex to they were married, and there were versins 496 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:39.279 to their married and maybe a high school sweetheart, and 497 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:42.400 their parents took them to church, and their parents stayed together, 498 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.839 no divorce, you know, they live that that that life, 499 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.000 you know, and they ended up just staying on the 500 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.400 on that that that right path. But there's a lot 501 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:57.480 of us, like myself, that parents divorced. You know. My 502 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:00.920 dad did some terrible thing and got caught selling drugs 503 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.839 and then went to jail. And my mom she could 504 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.400 you know, it was hard for her to take care 505 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:08.000 of us because she didn't have the money. So we 506 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:10.920 were just lost in the sauce. And the only thing 507 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:15.039 that I found was was, you know, friends. You know, 508 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.799 I wanted friends and party and I wanted to hang out. 509 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.920 And my dad used to let us drink and do 510 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.160 drugs at the house, and he said, I'd rather you 511 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.400 do drugs in front of me than do drugs out there. Right. 512 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.759 So I like doing cocaine at a young age, like 513 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:35.039 fourteen fifteen, did a acid, did shrooms, got to experience 514 00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:38.200 all that, you know, And I was definitely a lost 515 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.480 sheep before God found me. But what I'll tell you 516 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.640 is from what I've seen, like look at Paul, like 517 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.680 he was murdering Christians. He was killing Christians, he was 518 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:52.759 following the Torah. He was trying to like he was 519 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.240 just like either at one hundred and fifty percent or zero, 520 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.279 and then he got saved by Jesus, you know, and 521 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:01.680 and he ended up being one hundred percent into God 522 00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:04.200 right and and he and he was the nice for 523 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.279 the gentiles. Right. So all I want to say is, 524 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:10.920 even though some of us are that lost sheep, once 525 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:13.359 we are found, I've seen a lot of people that 526 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.880 have gone through the trenches and have done some crazy 527 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.559 things in their life. Once they get saved, they are 528 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:23.240 one hundred and fifty percent dedicated to the Lord. Because 529 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.359 we've already done that life. We've already tasted that. We 530 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.759 don't need to go taste it again. We've already done that. 531 00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.839 We're done with that stage of our life, and we 532 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.839 are one hundred and fifty percent down for the Lord. 533 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:37.519 Not saying we don't backslide once in a while, all 534 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:39.359 I'm telling you is I've seen a lot of people 535 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:41.359 that have been through the trenches and had a hard 536 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.279 rough road that that now that they're saved there they're 537 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.960 doing wonderful things for the Lord. And there is some 538 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:50.200 that have never tasted that life that are doing wonderful 539 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:53.400 things for the Lord. But see, God knows that when 540 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:59.680 he gets that sheep, that that one that that went astray, 541 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.640 you know, it's it's just amazing that he doesn't let 542 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:08.920 us perish, because we were destined for hell. We were 543 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:12.960 destined for shield, you know, we were destined for that. 544 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.200 We were headed that way, full force, one hundred one 545 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:21.000 hundred miles an hour that way, you know, and for 546 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:25.839 God to give us a chance, give us grace and 547 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:29.160 to you know, it says, even so, it is not 548 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:30.599 the will of the Father who is in heaven that 549 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.799 one of these little ones should perish. You know, it's 550 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.200 not the will of the Father that we perish. God 551 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:39.359 loves us. Even though we went a little sideways. The 552 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:44.640 angels in heaven rejoice because that one sheep was found. 553 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:48.319 And I just think it's absolutely amazing. You know that 554 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:51.960 I love this this parable because I was definitely that 555 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:56.440 lost sheep. And thank God that it's it's not the 556 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.839 will of the Father that that that I perished. Thank 557 00:32:59.880 --> 00:33:02.720 you Lord for not letting me die in a drunk 558 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.039 driving accident or a drug induced driving accident or whatever. 559 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.480 He allowed me to live and be a living testament 560 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:19.720 for him. It's amazing. And you that are listening can 561 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:25.559 also be that living Testament. You can be that living Testament. 562 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:28.599 You know you could be that, and some of you 563 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:35.119 are that already. So, so how do we deal with 564 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:41.119 the sinning brother or sister? Moreover, if your brother sins 565 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:44.759 against you, go and tell him his fault between you 566 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:49.119 and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained 567 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:53.200 your brother. But if he will not hear, take with 568 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.359 you one or two more that by mouth of two 569 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.880 or three witnesses, every word may be established. And if 570 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:05.200 he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. 571 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:08.039 But if if he refuses even to hear from the church, 572 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:14.079 let him be to you like a heathen and a 573 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.239 tax collector. It's funny because Matthew was a tax collector. 574 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.800 So for them to put that there, I thought that 575 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:29.519 was funny. So this is the proper way to deal 576 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.000 with a brother. This is what Jesus is telling us, right, 577 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:33.599 This is the proper way to deal with the brother 578 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:40.840 that is sinning. So notice that it doesn't say that 579 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:44.599 if your brother sins against you, go and tell the 580 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:48.960 whole entire internet, and to go and tell everybody that 581 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:53.599 that's that's that can that will listen what this brother 582 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:56.800 did to you, so that they can all slander his 583 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.079 name and slander and slander and talk bad about the 584 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:04.119 sin that he committed and talk bad about this brother 585 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.480 or sister in Christ. Does Jesus say to do that, 586 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.719 go and post it on Instagram and a YouTube and 587 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:16.320 Facebook and to create a podcast that is going against 588 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:19.000 this brother that's sinned against you, or to go make 589 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.719 a TikTok post about him. No, this is not what 590 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.480 he says. Now, this is not this is talking about 591 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:29.760 a brother in Christ. Okay, I'm not you know, I 592 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:32.280 don't think you should ever do that to anybody, other words, 593 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:34.840 a brother in Christ or not. But do you see 594 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.320 why why would Jesus not want you to do that? 595 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.639 Because we're supposed to attract people to the faith. We 596 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:49.440 want to attract people to the faith. So if you 597 00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:53.800 see a brother sinning and you're telling every Tom, Dick 598 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.559 and Harry and Mary and John and everybody you know, 599 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.000 then you're slandering that person. And and that's just like 600 00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:04.880 everybody in the world. That's what they would do. Jesus 601 00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:09.880 is saying, tell him his fault between you and him alone. 602 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.519 So if you tell your brother that's sinning. Listen, dude, 603 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:17.360 you I saw you. You you drank last night like 604 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:20.480 too much and you started talking to these women being 605 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.880 lustful and you're married. Bro. You need to stop doing that, dude, 606 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.280 And you know you need to. You need to, you know, 607 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:28.159 just come on, bro, you need to need to clear 608 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:32.000 up right. And and if and if he hears you, 609 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:35.840 then he and he's and he is a true saved person. 610 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.280 He would tell you, thank you. I appreciate you letting 611 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.639 me know that I was stumbling and I will not 612 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:46.960 do that again, thank you, brother. But if he continues 613 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.880 to do it and he doesn't hear you, take with 614 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.840 you one or two more that by mouth, two or 615 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:58.559 three witnesses, every word may be established. Right, So you 616 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:00.719 take two or three witnesses with you that are brothers 617 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:05.320 in Christ with him, and then you talk to him. 618 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:10.639 And if he's a saved person that is truly born again, 619 00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:17.920 he probably should listen at that point because you know 620 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:23.840 that these brothers don't have something negative or they don't 621 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:26.039 have something out for you. They're not doing it because 622 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:29.360 they gain anything. They're doing it because they you know, 623 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:31.559 they care about your faith. They care about you being 624 00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:34.920 saved they care about you, not stumbling. They care about 625 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:38.480 your family, They care about your life and everything that 626 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:41.840 could happen to you. They truly care, and they look 627 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.400 at it from a spiritual aspect and not just a 628 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:48.239 physical aspect. They're looking at it from a spiritual aspect. Right, 629 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:52.679 And if he refuses to hear them, Let's say he refuses, 630 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.599 then tell it to the church. So now the whole 631 00:37:56.800 --> 00:38:00.639 congregation knows, and they're gonna all come and try to 632 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:05.000 counsel you. But if he refuses even to hear the church, 633 00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:09.119 then let him be to you like a heathen or 634 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.679 a tax collector, basically saying, if you don't want to listen, 635 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:18.239 then get out of the church and get away from me. Okay, 636 00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:22.719 you are now a heathen. Just go, you know, because 637 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:25.440 you're going to cause people to stumble in the church. 638 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.320 You're going to cause people like maybe someone like me 639 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.599 that had triggers at one time to do certain things. 640 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:33.239 Maybe they could try to cause me to stumble, you know, 641 00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:41.480 And believe it or not, that's saying that misery Enjoy's 642 00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:47.159 company is so true. It'll be like a cancer in 643 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.840 the church. Someone like that. Now we're at Matthew eighteen eighteen. Assuredly, 644 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.079 I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will 645 00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.079 be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth 646 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:04.679 will be in heaven. Again, I say to you that 647 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.559 if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that 648 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:11.039 they ask, it will be done for them by my 649 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:14.760 Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered 650 00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:18.320 together in my name, I am there in the midst 651 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:27.519 of them. So if you notice, let's look at that 652 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:37.480 real quick. We're at a Matthew eighteen, verse eighteen. Bind 653 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:43.960 on earth. What does bind mean? Let's see what that means. Bound, 654 00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:49.920 to bind, to fasten, fasten with chains, to throw into chains. 655 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.880 Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by 656 00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:56.159 means of a demon. Right, so to bind, to put 657 00:39:56.199 --> 00:40:01.159 under obligation to the law, to duty, to bind to 658 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:06.760 one a wife a husband, so to fasten to chains. Surely, 659 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.719 I say do, whatever you bind on earth will be 660 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.519 bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on Earth will be 661 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:15.840 loosen in heaven. So there's like a spiritual world happening 662 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.960 and a heavenly world. There's there's a physical world happening. 663 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.039 So as you bind things on earth, it is bind 664 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.360 in heaven. Whatever you loose on Earth will be loose 665 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.320 in heaven. So things are happening in the physical causing 666 00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:32.679 reactions in the heavenly. Okay, we got to understand that, 667 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:38.639 Like maeah, there's things that people do that probably cause 668 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:46.320 Heaven to to feel some I would just say, feel 669 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.480 some type of way when certain things happen on earth 670 00:40:49.760 --> 00:41:02.199 cause God to to feel feel remorseful, you know. But okay, again, 671 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:05.800 I say to you that two or three of you, okay, 672 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.800 So for two of them are gathered in my name, 673 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.519 I am there in the midst of them. So Jesus 674 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:13.639 is saying, you know, as you know, when you're worshiping 675 00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:15.960 in my name, then I am there in the midst 676 00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:18.519 of you. You know. So I think that's very amazing 677 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:22.719 and awesome. People need to understand that. And it says 678 00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:28.280 it will be done by my Father in heaven. Now 679 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:32.679 he is talking to the people at that very time. Okay. 680 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.519 So he's talking to those people at that time. To 681 00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.000 properly divide the word understand, he's talking to the Jews 682 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.159 at that time, the people that are in Israel. He's 683 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:46.000 talking to them. But there's a spiritual aspect we can 684 00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:49.280 gain from this and understand that when we are gathered 685 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.119 in Jesus's name, that he is there in the midst 686 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.039 of us. You know he is there, so we can 687 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.480 take comfort in that right. The parable of the unforgiving servant, 688 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.000 and Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often 689 00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:05.960 shall my brother sin against me? And I will forgive 690 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.960 him up to seven times. Jesus said to him, I 691 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:12.800 do not say to you up to seven times, but 692 00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.519 seventy times seven, which I think is four hundred and 693 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:30.559 ninety four ninety four hundred and ninety times. Therefore, the 694 00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:33.280 Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted 695 00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.159 to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had 696 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.679 begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him, who 697 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.840 owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not 698 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.639 able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold 699 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.039 with his wife and children and all that he had, 700 00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:53.280 and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down 701 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:56.039 before him, saying, Master, have patience with me, and I 702 00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:58.760 will pay you all. Then the master of the servant 703 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:03.320 was moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt. 704 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:09.679 But listen what the servant did. But the servant went 705 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:11.880 out and found one of his fellow servants who owed 706 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:17.039 him a hundred denari, and he laid hands on him 707 00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:19.559 and took him by the throat, saying, pay me whatever 708 00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.599 you owe. So his fellow servant fell down at his 709 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:26.000 feet and begged him, saying, have patience with me, and 710 00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:30.159 I will pay you all. And he would not, but 711 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:33.400 went and threw him into prison till he should pay 712 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:37.119 the debt. So when his fellow servants saw that what 713 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.159 he had done, they were very grieved and came told 714 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:43.079 their master all that he had done. Then his master, 715 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.800 after he had a call, after he had called him, 716 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:48.800 said to him, you, wicked servant, I forgave you for 717 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:51.400 the debt because you begged me. Should you not also 718 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.400 have had compassion on your fellow servant as I had 719 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:57.199 pity on you. And his master was angry and delivered 720 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.559 him to the torturers until he should pay all that 721 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:08.320 was due to him. How do you expect God to 722 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.639 forgive you? You ask God to you know, Lord? Please? 723 00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:14.519 You know I sin against you? You ask him a 724 00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.599 bunch of times, you know, Lord, can he please forgive 725 00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:19.079 me for my sins? You know? Forgive me, Lord? And 726 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:23.159 God has grace and he forgives you. But then one 727 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:26.920 of your fellow brothers does something to you and you 728 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:30.119 slander them and talk bad about them, and you don't 729 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:32.599 forgive them, and you stop talking to them. Someone in 730 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:35.519 your family does that, your mom, your dad, your cousin, 731 00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:39.480 your aunt, whatever, and you say, I will never forgive 732 00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:43.960 that person. I hate that person. That's as good as 733 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:46.599 you murdering that person. When you do that, you don't 734 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:49.639 understand that. But you're gonna go to God and ask 735 00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.880 him to forgive you for your sins when you're holding 736 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.360 that grudge in your heart. That's the same exact thing 737 00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:04.360 that's happening right here. Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit deal 738 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:09.239 with this all the time. That's why I know that 739 00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:13.360 Jesus is God, because he is talking about what God 740 00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:18.440 goes through. You know what God goes through on a 741 00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:22.000 daily basis, and what you mere humans don't understand that. 742 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:26.239 You continue to do this time and time again, and 743 00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:30.719 you expect us to forgive you. You see, and his 744 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:33.519 master was angered deliver him to the tortures until he said, 745 00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:38.199 pay all that was due to him. You understand. So, 746 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.840 my heavenly father, Father, sorry, my heavenly Father, this is 747 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:48.079 Matthew eighteen thirty five Known, so my heavenly father will 748 00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.679 also do to you. Each of you from his heart 749 00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:58.719 does not forgive his brother his trespasses. So so my 750 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:01.480 heavenly Father will also do to you each of you 751 00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:05.599 from his heart does not forgive his brother his trespasses. 752 00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:10.920 So you've got to forgive. Understand, Okay, you got to 753 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:14.639 be understanding. You got to be compassionate, and you have 754 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:19.920 to forgive your fellow brother and sister or aunt or 755 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:23.360 cousin or mom or dad like you got to put 756 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:26.480 yourself in their shoes. Even though they might do something 757 00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:29.760 that's super offensive to you, they're not on the same 758 00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:33.000 level spiritually as you at that time, So something gets 759 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:35.880 could be a lot more offensive to you because you've 760 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:39.880 had time to spiritually grow and you've learned how to 761 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.920 handle situations better than other people that haven't. Some people 762 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:48.400 they don't have the Bible, they don't have a moral 763 00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:51.639 compass to go off of someone. Someone does something to you, 764 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.559 their moral compass is off because it not saved. They 765 00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.559 haven't been properly born again, they haven't been properly taught 766 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.800 the Bible. They have not been taught the ways of God. 767 00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:06.400 So when they do something to you, it's because they're 768 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:10.440 not at that spiritual level that maybe you're at. So 769 00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:16.519 when you don't forgive them, you're not understanding the way 770 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.880 that their mind works. You're not understanding the way that 771 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:22.079 they haven't been saved and they haven't gone through the 772 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.920 things that you've gone through. So I think it's vastly 773 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:34.440 important to forgive, forgive what is the worst something. Now 774 00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:39.559 there's some people I've seen literally that are in court. 775 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:45.440 The murderer is right there of this man's daughter, this 776 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:51.239 man's son, right in front of him, and he says, 777 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:57.480 I forgive you, and it makes that murderer fall to 778 00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:05.280 his knees, and it maybe makes it so that murderer 779 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:10.119 finds out that that gentleman that forgave him is Christian, 780 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:17.960 and maybe that murderer would convert and get saved and 781 00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:22.079 be born again. I think it was the Green River 782 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:28.440 Killer something like that, and the man a lot of 783 00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:33.960 the people that he murdered, they were coming in there 784 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.000 and all the people that were like family members of 785 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.440 the victims was telling him, you know, I hate you, 786 00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:43.760 I you know whatever, just really hurtful things to that guy, 787 00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:48.320 and he was just sitting there. But one came this 788 00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:54.280 old man and he told them, you know what, I 789 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.960 forgive you. And you don't understand that that serial killer 790 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:04.000 had tears coming down his eyes and down his face 791 00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:10.039 because he you know, you never know what someone has 792 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:12.800 gone through in their life or caused them to become 793 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:16.119 that kind of person. But for that man to stand 794 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:20.119 there and say, I forgive you, and you know you 795 00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.119 need Jesus whatever everything else he said, I mean, it's 796 00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:29.880 just really powerful for the person that committed the act. 797 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:34.960 And also it's very powerful for the people and the 798 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:39.599 audience that are watching that what does that man have 799 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:41.960 that I don't have? How can he be so forgiving 800 00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:46.639 to that person? What does that man have? He has Jesus, 801 00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:51.679 He is born again, he is Christian. It causes people 802 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.559 to want to ask you about the faith instead of 803 00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:57.599 you having to go and evangelize to them. You're living 804 00:49:57.719 --> 00:50:01.360 so great that they come and ask you. You see, 805 00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:06.159 that is truly being in a disciple of the Lord. 806 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:11.280 That people notice it in your personality. They notice how 807 00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:15.079 you act, how you know, they notice everything like and 808 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:21.760 it attracts people to the faith by your actions. That 809 00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:25.159 is the best way. So that is Matthew eighteen. That 810 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.800 was really awesome. I love that chapter. And now we're 811 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:31.840 going to get into what I talked about earlier, which 812 00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:36.159 is marriage and divorce. Now it came to pass. This 813 00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:39.360 is Matthew nineteen one if you're following along, And this 814 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:42.800 is the new King James version. Okay. Like I always say, 815 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:46.119 I read this version because I like the King James 816 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:48.920 and this is a little easier for me to read, 817 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:51.400 and I don't want to stumble when I'm speaking, so 818 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:55.199 I try to try to read this a little smoother 819 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:59.320 for me. Now it came to pass when Jesus had 820 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:03.199 finished these sayings that he departed from Galilee and came 821 00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:06.320 to the reason of Judea before the Jordan and great 822 00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:11.800 multitudes follow him, and he healed them. There. The Pharisees 823 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:15.960 also came to him, testing him and saying to him, 824 00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:18.440 is it lawful for a managed divorce his wife for 825 00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:23.360 just any reason? So the Pharisees are trying to catch 826 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.480 Jesus in a trap, you see the other They're trying 827 00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:31.239 to do that. They're constantly trying to do that. They 828 00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:37.800 want to make him look bad to the people, and 829 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:40.880 they're trying to make him break the law of God 830 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:49.159 in some way. And Jesus is so smooth with his answers, 831 00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:53.760 and it says, and he answered, this is a matthew 832 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:56.880 nineteen verse four. And he answered and said to them, 833 00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:00.280 have you not read what He who made them at 834 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.599 the beginning? Made them male and female? And said, for 835 00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:06.880 this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother 836 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.000 and be joined to his wife, and the two shall 837 00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:17.199 become one flesh. One two. You become one flesh. So 838 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:23.039 then there are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, 839 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:28.599 what God has joined together, let man, let not man separate. 840 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:35.079 So when you become married with your wife, and you 841 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.679 know what, I know you guys think that marriage is 842 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.559 like going to a chapel and getting married. And I 843 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.360 know you guys think that getting married is that certificate 844 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:46.960 you get from the state of California. Not all of you, guys, 845 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:49.360 but some people believe that. But believe it or not. 846 00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:55.440 Marriage in the Bible is when you have intimate relations 847 00:52:55.519 --> 00:53:01.239 with a woman. That is marriage. You become one with 848 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:05.000 that person. You understand it is a lot deeper. When 849 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.320 you have sex with a person, is a lot deeper 850 00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:11.159 than you think. And it's like two boards when you 851 00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:15.639 glue them together. You glued them together. Let's we'll talk 852 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:18.400 about actual marriage here. You know, well, just just for 853 00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:21.800 your guys' sake, but you become one with your wife, 854 00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:25.639 right And if you glue these wood together and you 855 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.000 pull them apart, like for divorce, they're gonna splinter up 856 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:32.920 and you're not gonna be able to put them back 857 00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:36.199 together correctly again. So even when you're trying to remarry 858 00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:39.239 somebody else that you got all those splinters, and then 859 00:53:39.239 --> 00:53:43.000 they're trying to conjoin with you, and sometimes it just 860 00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.039 doesn't work as good. You know, I'm not saying that 861 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.599 never works out, but it just is not the same, 862 00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:52.039 especially when you have children with that woman, you know. 863 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:58.280 So what God has joined together, let not man separate. 864 00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:05.039 Jesus is telling him that, and since they're all law 865 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:12.880 abiding Pharisees, they respond with this. They said to him, 866 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.800 Why then did Moses command to give a significate of 867 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:21.639 divorce and put her and put her away? He said 868 00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:24.079 to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts 869 00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:27.679 permitted you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning 870 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.960 it was not so. And I say to you, whoever 871 00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:35.119 divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another 872 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:43.599 commits adultery. Whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery. Okay, 873 00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:50.360 So Jesus is saying that God now that marriage happened, 874 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.280 and then Moses talked about the certypic of divorce to 875 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:55.920 put her away. But Moses, because of the hardness of 876 00:54:55.920 --> 00:54:58.679 your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives. But from 877 00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:01.039 the beginning it was not so, so Jesus is saying 878 00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:04.360 that he did not. God doesn't want you to divorce 879 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:12.679 your wife or your husband unless there is sexual immorality. 880 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:24.920 Now we could go there real quick. Okay, So Matthew 881 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:45.400 nineteen verse eight Matthew nineteen verse eight nine, Sorry, my ben, 882 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:50.320 so in the King James that right there instead of 883 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:55.039 saying sexual immorality. Wait, let me see whoever puts your 884 00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.639 wife and except fornication is what the word is there? 885 00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:06.360 Illicit sexual will intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals, 886 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:11.639 et cetera. Okay, sexual intercourse with close relatives. What it 887 00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:17.599 means is or nia. That's that word sexual morality. So 888 00:56:19.159 --> 00:56:23.360 for adultery, fornication, so illicit sexual intercourse. So if you're 889 00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:25.760 what it's saying here. In this case, you're talking about 890 00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:29.199 a wife. If your wife had had sexual intercourse with 891 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:33.440 another man or another woman, or anything of the sort, 892 00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:37.360 and marries another who commits and marries another commits adultery. Right. 893 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:44.199 So so that's the only exception is if they cheated 894 00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:49.719 on their spouse. Right. So his disciples said to him, 895 00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:52.519 if this is the case of the man with his wife, 896 00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:59.280 is it better not to marry? Like wow, if such 897 00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:01.039 is the case with the man with his wife, is 898 00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:06.599 it better not to marry? They don't get it. Jesus 899 00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:12.199 teaches on celibacy. But he said to them, all cannot 900 00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:15.960 accept this saying, But only those to whom it has 901 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:20.840 been given. For there are euchs who were born thus 902 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.599 from their mother's womb, and they are eunuchs who were 903 00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:29.920 made eunuchs by men. And there are unuchs who made 904 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.679 themselves unus for the kingdom of Heaven's sake. Who is 905 00:57:33.719 --> 00:57:38.480 able to accept it, let him accept it. So let's 906 00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:42.719 go to that verse real quick. That's going to be 907 00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:49.239 nineteen verse twelve. Unuks. I want to make sure I'm 908 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:53.559 even saying that. Corribe what is an unuk? I think 909 00:57:53.599 --> 00:58:08.880 it's probably someone that's celibate, bedkeeper, bed guard who support 910 00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:14.960 numbers wives at superintendent of women's apartment, an emasculated man, 911 00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:26.280 naturally incapacitated for marriage or for children, one who voluntarily 912 00:58:26.280 --> 00:58:29.360 abstains from marriage. That's what it mainly means right here, 913 00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:34.280 is someone who voluntarily obstrains from having sex or from marriage, 914 00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:38.920 or from having kids or from begetting children. Right So 915 00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:45.519 it's celibacy. So yeah, some people do add the gift 916 00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:50.519 of singleness, and some people do not do anything outside 917 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:53.280 of marriage and they don't want to get married because 918 00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:58.199 who knows, but he who is able to accept it, 919 00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:01.400 let him accept it. If you can accept to live 920 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:04.559 like that, then you know, hey, you're living for the 921 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:06.920 Kingdom of Heaven for Heaven's sake, then hey, do it. 922 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:09.920 Then you know that what's more important to you is 923 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:15.480 the spiritual in heaven than you're physical. Jesus is just saying, hey, 924 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:19.320 he who is able to accept it, let him accept it. 925 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.920 So he's not saying like everybody should get married, and 926 00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:25.840 you have to get married for you to go to heaven, 927 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:27.880 and you need to have children and you need to 928 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.760 be fruitful and multiply like some of the commandments, saying 929 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.960 some people don't do that, and it's okay. You're still 930 00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:37.760 like you said, who was able to accept it, let 931 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:40.760 him accept it, right, So it's okay for the Kingdom 932 00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.039 of Heaven's sake for them to do that. Next is 933 00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:49.840 going to be Matthew nineteen of verse thirteen. Then Jesus' 934 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:53.159 little children who were brought to him that he might 935 00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:56.159 put his hands on them and pray. But the disciples 936 00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:59.360 rebuked them, and Jesus said, let the little children come 937 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.679 to me, and do not forbid them, for of such 938 01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:05.639 is the Kingdom of Heaven. And he laid his hands 939 01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:10.599 on them and departed from there. So probably the disciples, 940 01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:13.119 like you know, sometimes when you go somewhere and there's 941 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.440 a bunch of little children running at you, you kind 942 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:17.039 of want to, you know, you want to have adult time, 943 01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:20.000 so you kind of just probably rebuke the children and 944 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.800 tell them, hey, get away, We're trying to have adult talk. 945 01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.360 You know. That could be maybe what I'm seeing here. 946 01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:29.840 But Jesus is saying, Nah, hold on, let the little 947 01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:32.719 children come to me, and do not forbid them from such. 948 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:35.760 From such is the Kingdom of Heaven. For such is 949 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.480 the Kingdom of Heaven like these these little ones are innocent, 950 01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:40.960 they're beautiful, They're God's children. Let them come to me, 951 01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:47.199 do not do not forbid them? And he prayed for them, 952 01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:50.960 you know, and and yeah, so I think it's it's beautiful. 953 01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:53.360 Jesus is just saying, hey, let them come like these 954 01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:56.119 they're children of God, like they're important too. So I 955 01:00:56.119 --> 01:00:57.960 could kind of see how the disciples were kind of 956 01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:00.960 probably like that. Even when you're at church sometimes, man, 957 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.360 you you know, I had I've had a little ones 958 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:06.079 and I'm at church and my kids are crying, ah, 959 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.840 running around and not really like focused on the Word, 960 01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:13.840 and it's it's so hard to focus on God. So 961 01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:17.159 I understand where the disciples are coming from. But Jesus 962 01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:19.679 is like, beat it, like these are these kids are great? 963 01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.079 These are these are for the children from the for 964 01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:27.960 such is the kingdom of heaven. Right so Matthew nineteen 965 01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:33.960 verse sixteen. Now behold one came and said to him, 966 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.159 good teacher, what good things shall I do that I 967 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:42.320 may have eternal life? And he said to him, why 968 01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:45.599 do you call me good? No one is good but 969 01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:48.920 one that is God. But if you want to enter 970 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:53.559 into life, keep the commandments. He said to him, which 971 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:56.760 ones Jesus said, You shall not murder, you should not 972 01:01:56.800 --> 01:01:59.679 commit adulter, you should not steal, should not bear fall, 973 01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:03.360 fall witness, honor your father, your mother, and you shall 974 01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:06.599 love your neighbor as yourself. The young man said to him, 975 01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.400 all these things I have kept from my youth, what 976 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:11.920 still do I lack? Jesus said, if you want to 977 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.840 you want to be perfect, go sell what you have 978 01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:18.880 and give to the poor, and you will have treasure 979 01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:24.000 in heaven. Come follow me. That's a reality check for 980 01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:26.800 that guy. But the young man heard that, saying he 981 01:02:26.840 --> 01:02:31.679 went away sorrowful, where he had great possessions. You see, like, 982 01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:35.039 if you don't ask, if you ain't ready, because Jesus 983 01:02:35.079 --> 01:02:36.360 is gonna let you know what you need to do. 984 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.039 And also Jesus is this is before Jesus died on 985 01:02:41.079 --> 01:02:44.039 the cross. He is speaking to the Jews that are 986 01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:47.760 there at that time. So at this time, Jesus is 987 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:53.079 letting him know how to get salvation. Right, He's saying 988 01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:57.000 that you need to follow the commandments. Right, this is now. Yes, 989 01:02:57.039 --> 01:02:58.800 we still need to follow the commandments. You're still going 990 01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.719 to be obedient to God. But that's not how we 991 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:06.079 obtain salvation now, even though we definitely need to do this, 992 01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:08.719 that's what I think, you know, But it's not the 993 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:12.119 way we obtain salvation now. It's not by works. But 994 01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.599 right here, this is Jesus speaking to a young Jewish 995 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.119 boy at that time. This verse is not for everybody 996 01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:21.239 in the world right now. This verse is for this 997 01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:25.719 gentleman right here, right then, at that time, and he 998 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:28.239 was letting him know what to do. But what he 999 01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:33.199 was saying, more importantly than even following the commandments, if 1000 01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:37.320 you want to be perfect, go sell everything you have, 1001 01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:42.920 give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, 1002 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:47.119 which is what really matters. Come and follow me. Come 1003 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:50.400 believe in me, Come have faith in me. That's how 1004 01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:54.960 you will obtain heaven. And the guy says, I cannot 1005 01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:59.119 do that. He walked away sorrowful because I have great possessions. 1006 01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:02.239 So you have all these physical possessions that you cannot 1007 01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:05.159 bring in a U haul with you to heaven. Jesus 1008 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:07.880 is letting you know. You can have the mansion, you 1009 01:04:07.920 --> 01:04:09.880 can have the cars, you can have the women, you 1010 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:12.000 can have the fame, you can have the rap career, 1011 01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:16.960 you can have the doctor career, you can have, you know, 1012 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:18.880 whatever you try to do in your life, and you 1013 01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:21.559 have everything that you ever wanted in this physical world. 1014 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.800 But you are gonna die sometime and every single one 1015 01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:28.400 of your possessions will be given to the next man. 1016 01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.239 That house will be lived in in a hundred years 1017 01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:36.239 by the next family, and forty years by the next family, 1018 01:04:37.679 --> 01:04:40.239 and everything that you had that was so important to 1019 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:46.760 you will be gone. We need to understand that your house, 1020 01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:53.639 your car, your wife's wife's, your wife, your kids. That's 1021 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:54.920 why I said. I said it with the as I 1022 01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:59.440 meant to say, your kids, everything that you have here 1023 01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:03.000 in the physic is given to you by the Lord. 1024 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:06.840 Thank you Lord for all my possessions. I appreciate him, 1025 01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:11.000 but I appreciate you so much more. Lord. And if 1026 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:13.360 you want me to drop everything I have to follow you, 1027 01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.280 I'm ready to do that. That's how we need to be. 1028 01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:21.119 But you see this man, he's placing his possessions before God. 1029 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:26.440 We should never put anything above God. God is number one, 1030 01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:30.480 then family, then your job, then you know whatever is 1031 01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:35.519 after that. But God is number one. And when it 1032 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:40.239 comes to you and your wife, understand something. You don't 1033 01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:43.920 obtain salvation with your wife. You're obtained of salvation as 1034 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:47.880 an individual with the Lord, so you need to understand that, 1035 01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:50.559 and your wife needs to understand that, and you got 1036 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:52.239 to try to get equally yoked with her. So you 1037 01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:54.360 guys are on the same belief So you guys can 1038 01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:58.000 like go to church together, grow together. But it's up 1039 01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:02.079 to you as an individual to have salvation with God. 1040 01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.920 And also your kids. You need to try to do 1041 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:08.800 your very very best to bring your kids up in 1042 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:11.480 the Lord and in the ways of the Lord, because 1043 01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:14.079 they need that foundation for when they get they end 1044 01:06:14.199 --> 01:06:17.719 up going away from you, that they could teach their kids, 1045 01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:20.079 you know, and disciple to their kids. You know that. 1046 01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:22.880 I mean, it's like it's it's something that is so important. 1047 01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:27.920 But this what's happening is especially nowadays, we have so 1048 01:06:28.119 --> 01:06:31.639 many possessions and we're trying to keep up with the Joneses, 1049 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:34.000 and we're trying to have all these friends that are 1050 01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:37.880 higher elite friends and oh these rich he's this, he's 1051 01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:39.639 that I want to be like him and oh yeah, 1052 01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:42.519 and it's like, dude, that's just not even what you're 1053 01:06:42.519 --> 01:06:46.679 supposed to do, like you're supposed to just life is 1054 01:06:46.719 --> 01:06:49.679 not about that. You're supposed to live for the Kingdom 1055 01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:55.760 of heaven, and it's so hard nowadays, especially man, when 1056 01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:58.280 you get caught up keeping up with the Joneses and 1057 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:02.719 all that stuff. So Jesus just basically said he knew 1058 01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:07.840 exactly his weakness, and he exposed it. And the guy said, 1059 01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:12.679 I'm sorry, I have great possessions. I could never do 1060 01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:15.760 something like that, and he wasn't ready to truly follow God. 1061 01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:18.840 How many people did Jesus run into that were like that, 1062 01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:21.760 that told him I want exactly what you have, and 1063 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:25.880 I'm ready. Okay, you're ready, then let's go drop everything 1064 01:07:25.880 --> 01:07:28.400 and let's go right now. No, hold on, I gotta 1065 01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:30.360 go bury my dad. I gotta go bury the dead. 1066 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.480 I gotta go. I got I gotta do this. Let 1067 01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:36.039 me talk, I gotta do No, let's go right now. No, okay, 1068 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:39.679 then go do what you gotta do. Never mind, when 1069 01:07:39.719 --> 01:07:44.880 you're ready to truly follow, then let's go. All right, 1070 01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:48.480 So Matthew nineteen verse twenty three. Then Jesus said to 1071 01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:50.480 his disciples, so surely I say to you that it 1072 01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:53.199 is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom 1073 01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:55.440 of heaven. And again I say to you, it is 1074 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.400 easier for a camel to go through the eye of 1075 01:07:57.440 --> 01:08:00.760 a needle and for a rich man to enter the 1076 01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:06.599 Kingdom of heaven. That's exactly what I was saying right there. 1077 01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:11.639 You're placing things above the Lord. And you can't have 1078 01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:15.159 a bunch of idols and have You can only worship 1079 01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:20.680 one master, either God or the Devil or the God 1080 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:24.520 of Mana. You can only worship God or the God 1081 01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:29.520 of Mana or Satan. Right you love one and absolutely 1082 01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:32.640 hate the other. You can't have one foot in the 1083 01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:36.239 world and one foot with Christ and enter the Kingdom 1084 01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:40.359 of Heaven. And saying that right here, being lukewarm, you 1085 01:08:40.399 --> 01:08:42.479 can't do that. He will spew you out of his mouth, 1086 01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:47.880 vomit you. So this is it's hard for a rich 1087 01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:50.119 man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Why because of 1088 01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:54.479 the greed. Why because when you become rich, the amount 1089 01:08:54.600 --> 01:09:00.640 of sins coming your way opens up tremendously. You could imagine, Okay, 1090 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.520 right now, I'm not rich. Do I have a good job. Yes, 1091 01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:09.359 Do I have a job where I'm making millions of dollars? No? Okay, 1092 01:09:10.239 --> 01:09:14.000 But for me, I am rich because I have the Lord. 1093 01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:17.840 But what I'll tell you is you can imagine if 1094 01:09:17.880 --> 01:09:22.039 you're a rich, attractive gentleman and you go to the 1095 01:09:22.159 --> 01:09:27.359 gas station in a Lamborghini and you're fueling your car 1096 01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.520 and a bunch of beautiful women are going to the 1097 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.520 club right next to you. They pull up to fill 1098 01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:36.720 up their gas tank, and there's five women in the car, 1099 01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:39.199 and they see you filling up your Lamborghini and you're 1100 01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:42.119 just standing there. You're a married man, by the way, 1101 01:09:42.560 --> 01:09:45.560 and all five of these women are like attracted to 1102 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:50.439 your Lamborghini. You see. That's why it's harder, because it 1103 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:55.680 opens up so much the floodgates of sin will be 1104 01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:00.079 coming your way, and so much more sin and so 1105 01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:05.439 much more temptation when you have money like that. Not 1106 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:11.079 saying that, it doesn't say that it's impossible for someone 1107 01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:12.800 that's rich to go to heaven. And I'm not saying 1108 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:16.720 that either. But what I'll tell you, as I see 1109 01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:18.840 from a man's point of view, I don't know, I 1110 01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:20.760 can't see from a woman's point of view because I 1111 01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:24.479 don't know. But what I will tell you is it 1112 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:28.399 opens up the floodgates for a lot more sin to 1113 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:32.279 come into your life. And also, what did you have 1114 01:10:32.399 --> 01:10:35.800 to do to get that money. Did you have to 1115 01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:39.319 step on people's toes to make that money? Did you 1116 01:10:39.439 --> 01:10:44.760 have to sacrifice other people to get that money? There's 1117 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:48.159 people in the Hollywood right now that I believe have 1118 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:52.760 done sacrifices to make it to where they're at. Where 1119 01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:57.800 they sold their soul, meaning not saying that the soul 1120 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:00.199 can belong to Satan, but what I could say say 1121 01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:02.880 is they probably did blasphemy of the Holy Spirit to 1122 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.640 make that money and all those riches and all that 1123 01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:09.840 gifts and everything that they want, the worldly gifts, they 1124 01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.920 can have it upfront, but they're gonna end up going 1125 01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:16.119 to hell. So you get all these gifts up front 1126 01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:19.880 and have fun in life, and that's great. But that's 1127 01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:23.720 why you see a lot of actors I believe, committing 1128 01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:29.159 suicide and drug overdoses and people dying at the age 1129 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:32.479 of twenty seven, people committing suicide, people getting murdered, and 1130 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:36.399 because that life that they thought they wanted and then 1131 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:39.199 they sold their soul or they gave up their their 1132 01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:42.439 maybe they did something, you know, I don't know, ritualistic, 1133 01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:44.239 I don't know what they did. But they end up 1134 01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:47.079 getting all this money and then they end up giving 1135 01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:51.279 their soul away. In the process. So what I'm just 1136 01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:54.800 saying is, I'm not saying that every rich man can't 1137 01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:56.720 enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I don't think that Jesus 1138 01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:02.560 is saying that either. He's saying that it's hard for 1139 01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:04.960 a rich man to enter the kingdom heaven. It's even 1140 01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:07.600 hard for a poor man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Okay, 1141 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:17.840 so you can imagine being rich. So we got to 1142 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:23.479 understand that, Okay. Matthew nineteen, verse twenty five. When his 1143 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.840 disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, who then 1144 01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:31.119 can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said, 1145 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:36.479 with men, this is impossible, But with God, all things 1146 01:12:36.680 --> 01:12:42.680 are possible. So a man cannot be saved on his own, 1147 01:12:43.359 --> 01:12:46.039 because men try to be saved on their own all 1148 01:12:46.119 --> 01:12:51.720 the time. And that is called works works based religion, 1149 01:12:52.600 --> 01:12:55.840 works works works. But what does it say in the 1150 01:12:55.840 --> 01:13:01.279 Book of Isaiah your works are like filthy rab to God? 1151 01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:04.159 What does it say in Ephesians two eight, We are 1152 01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:08.239 saved by grace through faith, for it is not of yourselves, 1153 01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:11.760 It is a gift from God, So that no man 1154 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:17.359 shall boast. Because people that are doing works tend to 1155 01:13:17.640 --> 01:13:21.560 boast right. So what it's saying is that we're saved 1156 01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:25.399 by grace, by the grace of God. We're say by 1157 01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:30.159 faith in whom in Jesus Christ, God's sin has only 1158 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:32.199 begotten son to die for us. Forever it believes in 1159 01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:35.079 them shall not perish, but have everlasting life. You see, 1160 01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:41.079 by having faith in Jesus. So it's impossible for men. 1161 01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:45.520 But with God all things are possible because of that. 1162 01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:49.199 But Jesus looked at them and said, when men with 1163 01:13:49.319 --> 01:13:52.039 men is impossible, with God, all things are possible. That's 1164 01:13:52.479 --> 01:13:56.600 we're at Matthew nineteen twenty six. Let's get to twenty seven. Now. 1165 01:13:56.920 --> 01:14:01.319 Then Peter answered and said, see, we have left all 1166 01:14:01.399 --> 01:14:04.840 and followed you. Therefore what shall we have? Jesus said 1167 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:09.479 to him, Surely, I say to you that in the Regeneration, 1168 01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:11.640 when the Son of Man sits on the throne of 1169 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:15.520 his glory, you who have followed me will also sit 1170 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:22.199 on twelve thrones. Judging the twelve tries of Israel. That's 1171 01:14:22.239 --> 01:14:29.319 a sorry judging the twelve tribes of Israel, and everyone 1172 01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:33.199 who has left houses or brothers or sisters, or father 1173 01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:36.720 or mother or wife, or children or lands for my 1174 01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:41.079 name's sake shall receive one hundredfold and inherit eternal life. 1175 01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:46.239 But many who are first will be last, and last 1176 01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:52.159 will be first. So many people on earth, kings, queens, 1177 01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:57.600 the Queen of England, you know that whatever, they're first 1178 01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:01.199 in heaven. I mean they're first on earth. They got 1179 01:15:01.239 --> 01:15:04.039 all these different things that they know. A forty story 1180 01:15:04.119 --> 01:15:08.279 mansion in Scotland and whatever the heck, you know, forty 1181 01:15:08.359 --> 01:15:11.760 room mansion with seven hundred bathrooms, like you know what 1182 01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:14.279 I mean, Like they got everything. Their gifts are given 1183 01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:16.560 to him up front. So they are first on earth, 1184 01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:21.560 but they will be last in the kingdom of heaven. 1185 01:15:22.159 --> 01:15:25.720 We understand that. That's why if you look at the 1186 01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:30.159 story in Luke sixteen is talking about the rich man 1187 01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:36.439 and Lazaruth. Lazaruth was not comforted on earth. He was poor. 1188 01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:40.720 He was getting thrown food that was given to the dogs, 1189 01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:43.479 and he's over there eating it real quick. He had sores, 1190 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:47.199 he was homeless, and that rich man stepped over him 1191 01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:50.239 every single day, never helped him out. But he had 1192 01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:53.319 plenty of linen and fine cloth out there when he 1193 01:15:53.399 --> 01:15:57.880 was sleeping. But guess what, like everybody that rich man 1194 01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:02.560 passed away Okay, he was first on earth, right, he 1195 01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:04.319 had all the riches, all the women, all the parties, 1196 01:16:04.359 --> 01:16:07.239 all everything that he wanted was right there. But then 1197 01:16:07.279 --> 01:16:10.079 he went upstairs to go to sleep. Whoo, he died. 1198 01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:13.479 The angels come and grabbed him and took him down 1199 01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:18.399 to shield in the earth. And what happened. Lazareth was 1200 01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:21.680 there on the other side of the cavern with Abraham. 1201 01:16:22.840 --> 01:16:26.000 Father Abraham, send Lazareth over here to put it driple 1202 01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:28.479 water on my tongue, please, like I'm burning up here. 1203 01:16:28.520 --> 01:16:32.239 I just need one drop of water, please. So he's 1204 01:16:32.279 --> 01:16:35.439 able to speak, he's able to hear. See. I talked 1205 01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:38.560 about this before, but this is just important. He was 1206 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:40.640 the person that was first on earth. But look at 1207 01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:44.399 him last and shield now. And Father Abraham said that 1208 01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:48.800 Lazareuth was not comforted on earth, but you were comforted. 1209 01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:52.199 You had everything on earth, but Lazarth didn't. Now he 1210 01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:56.840 is comforted. Now he's in paradise. While you're over there 1211 01:16:57.199 --> 01:17:02.079 and shield with your burning your feet, thirsty, everlasting thirst 1212 01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:08.039 that you will never be quenched. Absent from God. You 1213 01:17:08.079 --> 01:17:10.279 want to live absent for God your whole life. Well, 1214 01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:12.760 when you die and you're in hell, or you're in shield, 1215 01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:18.760 you will be absent from God. So go ahead, and eternity, 1216 01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:22.119 you'll be like that, because on earth you never wanted 1217 01:17:22.479 --> 01:17:28.399 to seek him. All right, So now we're in Matthew 1218 01:17:29.319 --> 01:17:42.640 twenty verse one. Well, the kingdom of heaven is like 1219 01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:45.840 a landowner who went out early in the morning to 1220 01:17:45.960 --> 01:17:50.039 hire laborers for his vineyard. Now, when he had agreed 1221 01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:53.279 with the laborers for a dinars a day, he sent 1222 01:17:53.319 --> 01:17:56.880 them into the vineyard. And he went out about the 1223 01:17:56.920 --> 01:17:59.880 third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 1224 01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:04.319 and said to them, you also go into the vineyard. 1225 01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:07.439 Whatever is right I will give you. So they went again. 1226 01:18:07.560 --> 01:18:10.520 He went out about the sixth and ninth hour and 1227 01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:13.239 did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out 1228 01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:15.960 and found others standing idle, and said to them why 1229 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:20.239 they why have you been standing here idle all day? 1230 01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:22.800 And they said to him because no one hired us. 1231 01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:26.079 He said to them, you also go into the vineyard, 1232 01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:31.600 and whatever is right you will receive. So when evening 1233 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:34.000 had come, the owner of the vineyard said to the steward, 1234 01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.840 call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with 1235 01:18:36.920 --> 01:18:40.600 the last to the first. And when those came that 1236 01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:44.159 were hired about the eleventh hour, they received a dinaris, 1237 01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:46.640 But when the first came, they supposed that they would 1238 01:18:46.680 --> 01:18:50.199 receive more. But likewise they received a dinaris. And when 1239 01:18:50.199 --> 01:18:53.760 they had received it, they complained against the landowners, saying, 1240 01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:57.479 the last man have worked only one hour, and you 1241 01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:01.720 made him equal to us, who have borne the burden 1242 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:04.399 of the heat of the day. But he answered one 1243 01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:07.439 of them and said, friend, I am doing you no wrong. 1244 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:11.039 Did you not agree with me for a dinaris? Take 1245 01:19:11.079 --> 01:19:13.840 what is yours and go your way. I wish to 1246 01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:17.039 give you the last man the same as to you. 1247 01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:19.960 Is it not lawful for me to do what I 1248 01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:22.840 wish to do with my own things? Or is your 1249 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:25.760 eye evil? Because I am good? For the last will 1250 01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:29.319 be first and the first last. For many are called, 1251 01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:34.920 but few chosen. So what I see here? Who knows 1252 01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:38.600 if I'm correct? You know? I see that some people 1253 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:44.479 will are dedicated Christians their whole entire life, and they 1254 01:19:44.840 --> 01:19:48.479 they they end up getting into the Kingdom of Heaven. 1255 01:19:49.359 --> 01:19:52.399 And there's some people that they're on their deathbed, and 1256 01:19:52.439 --> 01:19:55.119 they they asked Jesus to forgive them, and they ask 1257 01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:57.560 God to forgive them and you know, they end up 1258 01:19:57.600 --> 01:19:59.760 getting into the Kingdom of Heaven, just like these other 1259 01:19:59.760 --> 01:20:03.800 people that have been dedicated their whole lives, you know, 1260 01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:08.800 and maybe they'll complain, you know, like, how did that 1261 01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:11.239 person get in? When I lived my whole life for 1262 01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:15.359 you Lord? This one person he murdered, he killed, he stole, 1263 01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:18.720 he did drugs his whole entire life, and then on 1264 01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:21.039 his deathbed he asked you forgiveness. You forgave him, and 1265 01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:24.399 you let him into heaven. You see, this is what 1266 01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:27.680 this is. Till the last will be first and first last. 1267 01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:33.439 So that's kind of what I'm seeing there, Am I right? 1268 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:34.880 I don't know. I don't know if I'm right, but 1269 01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:39.720 this is what I'm seeing. Though. This is Jesus's parable, 1270 01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:45.600 not mine. Jesus a third time predicts his death and resurrection. 1271 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:49.880 Now Jesus going up to is to Jerusalem, took the 1272 01:20:50.239 --> 01:20:53.359 disciples of twelve disciples aside on the road and said 1273 01:20:53.399 --> 01:20:56.680 to them, behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The 1274 01:20:56.680 --> 01:20:58.960 son of Men will be betrayed to the chief priests, 1275 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:02.479 to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death 1276 01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:05.920 and deliver him to the gentiles to mock and to scourge. 1277 01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:09.000 And to crucify, and on the third day he will 1278 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:15.800 rise again. He's predicting, letting him know greatness is serving. 1279 01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:19.760 Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with 1280 01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:23.319 their sons, kneeling down and asking something from him. And 1281 01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:26.640 he said to her, what do you wish? She said 1282 01:21:26.640 --> 01:21:29.319 to him, grant these two sons of mine may sit 1283 01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:32.479 one on your right hand and the other on your 1284 01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:36.119 left in your kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, you 1285 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:38.319 do not know what you ask. Are you able to 1286 01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:41.000 drink the cup that I'm about to drink and be 1287 01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:46.199 baptized with the baptism I am baptized with. They said 1288 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:49.279 to him, we are able, And he said to them, 1289 01:21:49.359 --> 01:21:51.640 you will indeed drink my cup and be baptized with 1290 01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:55.119 the baptism I am baptized with. But to sit on 1291 01:21:55.159 --> 01:21:57.960 my right hand and on my left is not mine 1292 01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:01.800 to give, but it is for those of whom is 1293 01:22:01.840 --> 01:22:07.840 prepared by my father. So the mother even gets involved, 1294 01:22:07.840 --> 01:22:11.760 and she goes to ask him, can my son sit 1295 01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:14.960 on your right hand and left hand? You know, like 1296 01:22:17.439 --> 01:22:21.199 it's another one of these greatness questions, you know. And 1297 01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:24.279 I think that the Jews believed that he was going 1298 01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:27.079 to be king of the earth, and I think that's 1299 01:22:27.079 --> 01:22:31.039 what the Mother believed too. But Jesus is talking about 1300 01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:34.279 the heavenly, you know. And he's also saying, can you 1301 01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:38.760 drink from my cup? Like I'm about to get crucified, 1302 01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:43.560 I'm about to get spit on, beaten lashed, forty lashes, 1303 01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:45.159 I'm about to have all this stuff happen. How are 1304 01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:47.319 you going to drink from my cup? And like we 1305 01:22:47.359 --> 01:22:50.000 are able, Like Jesus is like, sure, you ain't able, 1306 01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:53.359 I know that. And also he's saying that it's up 1307 01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:56.800 to Father God, who sits on the right and on 1308 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:59.840 the left, and Jesus is at his right hand obviously right, 1309 01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:02.520 and Holy Spirits maybe at his left. I don't know. 1310 01:23:02.560 --> 01:23:05.960 It doesn't say that, but you know. And then the 1311 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:08.880 ten heard it, and they were greatly displeased with the 1312 01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:12.079 two brothers. But Jesus called them to himself. Now, I 1313 01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:13.880 do believe in the trinity, so don't take it the 1314 01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:17.399 wrong way. I believe there's one God, but you understand, 1315 01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:21.039 like it's just the way that's spoken is one God, 1316 01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:24.920 but three different persons, right, And when the ten heard it, 1317 01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:27.760 they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. But Jesus 1318 01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:30.439 called them to himself and said, you know, the rulers 1319 01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:34.439 of the gentiles, lord over the gentiles, lord over them, 1320 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:37.760 and those who are a great exercise authority over them. 1321 01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:42.119 It shall not be so among you. But whoever desires 1322 01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:46.399 to become great among you, let him be your servant. 1323 01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:50.119 Whoever desires to be first among you, let him be 1324 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:52.439 your slave. Just as the Son of Man did not 1325 01:23:52.600 --> 01:23:55.640 come to be served, but to serve, and to give 1326 01:23:55.680 --> 01:24:00.720 his life for a ransom for many, So it is 1327 01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:08.039 better to serve. That's how you become great service to others. 1328 01:24:08.600 --> 01:24:11.319 You don't become great by being a king on the earth. 1329 01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:15.319 That's not how you achieve greatness in heaven. You achieve 1330 01:24:15.399 --> 01:24:20.800 greatness by being a serve, a serf, by being a server, 1331 01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:27.800 you know, serving people, being there for people. Right, And 1332 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:31.479 the Son of Man, or Jesus, could have came here 1333 01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:36.239 on earth and became a great king like Solomon or 1334 01:24:36.319 --> 01:24:40.239 like King David, and could have had a million rooms 1335 01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:44.439 and a bunch of bathrooms, and a bunch of riches 1336 01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:47.800 and everything that he wanted. He could have came that way. 1337 01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:51.439 But instead he came as a common man, and he 1338 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:55.560 came to serve. He came to wash the feet, He 1339 01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:58.199 came to heal the blind, He came to heal the sick, 1340 01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:03.880 He came to preach. He came as a serve. Fir right, 1341 01:25:04.079 --> 01:25:07.000 he is a server, it says, just as the man, 1342 01:25:07.479 --> 01:25:09.840 a son of man, came not to be served, but 1343 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:13.600 to serve, and to give his life as a ransom 1344 01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:19.600 for many. You understand that is the true thing right 1345 01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:22.960 there that we need to do. From a spiritual aspect, 1346 01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:25.560 we need to understand that we need to be serving people. 1347 01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:32.920 Two blind men received their sight. Now as they went 1348 01:25:33.039 --> 01:25:36.880 out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him, and behold 1349 01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:39.720 two blind men sitting by the road. When they heard 1350 01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:42.279 that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, have mercy 1351 01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:46.000 on us, oh Lord, son of David. Then the multiplitude 1352 01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:49.319 warned them that they should be quiet, but they cried 1353 01:25:49.359 --> 01:25:54.199 out all the more, saying, have mercy on us, oh Lord, 1354 01:25:54.319 --> 01:25:58.239 son of David. So Jesus stood still and called them 1355 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:00.880 and said, what do you want me to do for you? 1356 01:26:01.880 --> 01:26:05.239 What do you want me to do for you? And 1357 01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:07.800 they said to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open. 1358 01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:12.199 So Jesus had compassion touched their eyes and immediately they 1359 01:26:12.319 --> 01:26:18.239 receive sight, and they followed him. A lot of us 1360 01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:21.840 are blinded and we need to we need our eyes 1361 01:26:21.880 --> 01:26:24.600 to be open. You guys know, there's a lot of 1362 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:28.000 people that are asleep, that are blind, that need to 1363 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.439 be able to see. And you know that once you 1364 01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:34.880 get saved and once you certain things are exposed to you, 1365 01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:38.720 you're able to see a lot more in depth. You're 1366 01:26:38.760 --> 01:26:41.439 able to see some of the stuff that these people 1367 01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:44.800 that are in power are doing, and these elites. And 1368 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.000 you know, so as a conspiracy theorist, you're able to 1369 01:26:48.039 --> 01:26:50.039 see a lot of stuff. But once you get saved 1370 01:26:50.039 --> 01:26:52.760 as well, and you have God as your foundation, and 1371 01:26:52.800 --> 01:26:55.359 you have the Bible as your foundation, you're able to 1372 01:26:55.399 --> 01:27:01.840 see even deeper and your discernment grows. So not only 1373 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:05.199 is He physically making these people see, but God can 1374 01:27:05.239 --> 01:27:09.279 actually make us see on a spiritual aspect even deeper 1375 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:12.439 and better, which is I think even greater than being 1376 01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:17.640 able to physically see. The triumphal entry. This is Matthew 1377 01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:21.840 twenty one, verse one. Now, when they drew near Jerusalem 1378 01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:25.840 and came to Bethatch at the Mount of Olives, then 1379 01:27:25.920 --> 01:27:29.399 Jesus said sent two disciples, saying to them, go into 1380 01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:32.439 the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a 1381 01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:36.159 donkey tide and a cult with her. Loose them and 1382 01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:39.479 bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, 1383 01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:42.359 you shall say the Lord has need of them, and 1384 01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:46.279 immediately he will send them. All. This was done that 1385 01:27:46.359 --> 01:27:51.920 it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet saying, 1386 01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:55.239 tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming 1387 01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:58.960 to you lowly and sitting on a donkey, a cult, 1388 01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:07.439 a foul of a donkey. Let's see, this is Matthew 1389 01:28:07.479 --> 01:28:14.000 twenty one. Let's see where that's Where is that at? 1390 01:28:14.119 --> 01:28:30.840 That is Matthew twenty one verse five. Oh yeah, so 1391 01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:35.199 it didn't really pull up. Okay, so we have Matthew 1392 01:28:35.199 --> 01:28:38.359 twenty one verse five that we just read. I could 1393 01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:41.119 try to see what what is I think this is 1394 01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:43.039 probably in Isaiah, but let me just check real quick. 1395 01:28:51.239 --> 01:29:03.199 Twenty one five Isaiah. Yeah, Isaiah sixty two eleven, if 1396 01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:07.039 you guys want to look that up. Prophecy found in 1397 01:29:07.079 --> 01:29:11.720 Isaiah sixty two eleven, which speaks about the coming of 1398 01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:13.960 the king to Jerusalem. Secni find the Missa's arrival. This 1399 01:29:14.079 --> 01:29:17.960 verse is often paired with Zachariah nine to nine, which 1400 01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:21.399 further describes the king writing on a donkey, signifying humility 1401 01:29:21.399 --> 01:29:24.720 and peace. So look up Isaiah sixty two eleven, and 1402 01:29:24.760 --> 01:29:30.800 then also pair that with Zachariah nine to nine. Okay, 1403 01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:32.960 just letting you guys know that, I just wanted to 1404 01:29:32.960 --> 01:29:35.760 make sure you know that I kind of haven't been 1405 01:29:35.800 --> 01:29:37.399 doing that with those I need to start doing that 1406 01:29:37.439 --> 01:29:40.960 with those, those little the prophecies, so you guys know 1407 01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:42.920 where to look, kind of read it, and then pair 1408 01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:44.880 it with another verse like that. That's good stuff for 1409 01:29:44.920 --> 01:29:47.039 you guys to know. Good for the teaching portion, not 1410 01:29:47.119 --> 01:29:51.239 the preaching portion. Okay, So we're at Matthew twenty one, 1411 01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:55.960 verse six. So the disciples went and did as Jesus 1412 01:29:56.039 --> 01:29:59.600 commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt, laid 1413 01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:03.399 their clothes them, and he sat on them. A very 1414 01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:07.520 great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut 1415 01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:09.880 down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 1416 01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:13.479 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed 1417 01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:18.039 cried out, saying, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed 1418 01:30:18.079 --> 01:30:19.840 is he who comes in the name of the Lord 1419 01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:33.199 Hosanna in the Highest. That's gonna be uh oh, let's see, 1420 01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:49.199 Oh Sannah. Sorry, guys, I'm just looking up explanation. Hosannah, 1421 01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:53.640 the word means praise God or save us. So praise 1422 01:30:53.720 --> 01:30:56.760 God to the son of David, or save us to 1423 01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:58.800 the son of David. Blesses he who comes in the 1424 01:30:58.840 --> 01:31:02.840 name of the Lord, save us in the highest, or 1425 01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:08.680 praise God in the highest. So we have that. So 1426 01:31:09.079 --> 01:31:14.199 all right. Now we're at Matthew twenty one, verse ten. 1427 01:31:15.039 --> 01:31:17.680 And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city 1428 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:20.880 was moved, saying, who is this? So the multitude says, 1429 01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:27.960 this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. And 1430 01:31:28.479 --> 01:31:33.000 this is Jesus cleanses the temple. We're at Matthew twenty one, 1431 01:31:33.359 --> 01:31:37.239 verse twelve. Then Jesus went into the Temple of God 1432 01:31:37.279 --> 01:31:39.960 and drove out all those who bought and sold in 1433 01:31:40.039 --> 01:31:43.920 the temple, and overturned the tables of money changers and 1434 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:47.000 the seats of those who sold doves. And he said 1435 01:31:47.039 --> 01:31:49.000 to them, it is written, my house shall not be 1436 01:31:49.079 --> 01:31:51.560 called a house of prayer, but you have made it 1437 01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:55.399 a den of thieves. So this is a yeah, this 1438 01:31:55.479 --> 01:31:59.279 is a very popular portion of Matthew when Jesus flipped 1439 01:31:59.279 --> 01:32:05.439 the tables. So it's kind of interesting that he went 1440 01:32:05.479 --> 01:32:09.159 into the temple and he said, my house shall be 1441 01:32:09.319 --> 01:32:11.720 called a house of prayer, but you have made it 1442 01:32:11.760 --> 01:32:16.680 a debt of thieves. He is so offended because Jesus 1443 01:32:16.680 --> 01:32:20.199 went into the temple of God, because Jesus is God 1444 01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:23.680 in the flesh, and he is offended because what they're 1445 01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:31.399 doing is what they were guilty of doing. They were 1446 01:32:31.479 --> 01:32:35.439 selling like people would bring doves in and they would say, 1447 01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:38.399 this dove is not perfect enough, so you need to 1448 01:32:38.439 --> 01:32:41.840 buy these doves that we have from the temple, and 1449 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.720 the people would buy it, and they're taking money from 1450 01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:49.279 the people, when that's God never said to do that. Also, 1451 01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:52.000 there was like a goat or a lamb that they 1452 01:32:52.039 --> 01:32:55.600 say is not perfect, it's blemished. You need to get 1453 01:32:55.600 --> 01:32:58.720 the unblemished one from the temple. So they would make 1454 01:32:58.760 --> 01:33:01.000 them pay. And i'll see that were he said he 1455 01:33:01.079 --> 01:33:03.279 made it a den of thieves, so that people were 1456 01:33:03.319 --> 01:33:06.119 not putting that money into the temple. Obviously that money 1457 01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:07.359 was going in there, a lot of it was going 1458 01:33:07.399 --> 01:33:10.800 in their pockets. And Jesus overturned the tables of money 1459 01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:14.600 and this is you know, this is some people think that, oh, 1460 01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:17.239 this is a sin and what he just did, But no, 1461 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:22.760 see he overturned the tables and this is his own house, 1462 01:33:25.800 --> 01:33:38.880 so he's able to do this. So then the blind 1463 01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:40.760 and the lame came to him in the temple. This 1464 01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:42.880 is Matthew twenty one to fourteen. We're back to the word. 1465 01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:45.279 Then the blind and the lame came to him in 1466 01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:47.800 the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief 1467 01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:50.159 priests inscribed all the wonderful things that he did, and 1468 01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:53.119 the children crying out, and the temple saying Hosanna to 1469 01:33:53.199 --> 01:33:56.279 the son of David, they were indignant and said to him, 1470 01:33:56.640 --> 01:34:00.680 do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said 1471 01:34:00.720 --> 01:34:04.039 to them, yes, have you never read out of the 1472 01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:10.359 mouth of babies nursing infants? You have perfected praise. Then 1473 01:34:10.359 --> 01:34:12.800 he left them and went out to the city of Bethany, 1474 01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:16.520 and he lodged there. So now the Pharisees is getting 1475 01:34:16.520 --> 01:34:20.479 a little crazy, because you see that that the interaction 1476 01:34:22.439 --> 01:34:26.760 was a little more intense. He flips the money tables over, 1477 01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:30.359 exposes them for what they're doing, and now he's got 1478 01:34:30.359 --> 01:34:34.880 people praising him Hosanna, the son of David, Praise God, 1479 01:34:35.239 --> 01:34:38.319 son of David. These and these Pharisees are like, what 1480 01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:40.960 is he saying? Like what what does this guy think 1481 01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:44.359 he is? You know, because they can't they're blind. They 1482 01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:47.079 can't see. They think they're spiritually able to see all 1483 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:49.520 this stuff, but they're actually blinded that the Messiah is 1484 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:55.359 standing right there in front of them, the Christ. The 1485 01:34:55.399 --> 01:34:58.640 fig tree withered. Now in the morning, as he returned 1486 01:34:58.640 --> 01:35:01.399 to the city, he was hungry and seeing a fig tree, 1487 01:35:01.399 --> 01:35:04.239 excuse me, by the road, he came to it and 1488 01:35:04.279 --> 01:35:07.760 found nothing on it but leaves, and he said, let 1489 01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:11.239 no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fake 1490 01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:15.560 tree withered away. So he's able to speak to the 1491 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:20.279 fig tree, and it just withered. The lesson of the 1492 01:35:20.520 --> 01:35:24.159 withered fig tree. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, 1493 01:35:24.159 --> 01:35:27.279 how did the fig tree wither away? So soon Jesus 1494 01:35:27.359 --> 01:35:29.279 answered them, surely, I say to you, if you have 1495 01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:33.039 faith and do not doubt, you will not only do 1496 01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:36.079 what is done to the fig tree, but also you 1497 01:35:36.119 --> 01:35:39.000 say to this mountain be removed, and they will cast 1498 01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:42.079 into the sea. And it will be done whoever, but 1499 01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:46.960 in whoever things you ask in prayer, believing you will receive. 1500 01:35:47.880 --> 01:35:52.119 But you see, this is a this is you have 1501 01:35:52.239 --> 01:35:58.920 to have that true faith, no doubt at all. And 1502 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:02.199 Jesus obviously is able as a you know, he is 1503 01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:05.319 a man and god on earth. But he has that 1504 01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:08.960 faith because he has been in heaven with his father, 1505 01:36:09.239 --> 01:36:14.720 so he knows. Jesus authority. Question now, when he came 1506 01:36:14.760 --> 01:36:17.079 into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the 1507 01:36:17.079 --> 01:36:22.079 people confronted him as he was teaching, and said, by 1508 01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:24.920 what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you 1509 01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:27.880 this authority? But Jesus answered and said to them, I 1510 01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:32.000 will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I, 1511 01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:34.479 like guys, will tell you what the authority I do things? 1512 01:36:34.520 --> 01:36:37.960 The baptism of John, where was it from from heaven 1513 01:36:38.319 --> 01:36:42.119 or from men? And they reason among themselves, saying, if 1514 01:36:42.159 --> 01:36:44.600 we say from heaven, he will say to us, why 1515 01:36:44.640 --> 01:36:47.479 did you not believe him? But if we say from men, 1516 01:36:47.880 --> 01:36:50.960 we fear the multitude from all count John as a prophet. 1517 01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:54.520 They answered, Jesus said, we do not know. Yeah, you see, 1518 01:36:54.600 --> 01:36:57.920 Jesus was he's very obviously, he's super intelligent, super smart. 1519 01:36:58.159 --> 01:37:01.279 He knows how to trap them as well, and he 1520 01:37:01.319 --> 01:37:05.960 wants to trap them into saying these certain things because 1521 01:37:06.520 --> 01:37:11.760 he knows what will happen. So instead of him being 1522 01:37:11.800 --> 01:37:13.760 trapped like they're trying to trap him up, he just 1523 01:37:13.840 --> 01:37:16.159 kind of trapped them right here, because that's what they're 1524 01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:18.199 trying to do. They're trying to get Jesus to stumble 1525 01:37:18.319 --> 01:37:22.399 or to say something that's against the law or against 1526 01:37:22.520 --> 01:37:25.600 what Moses said, so that the people would start to 1527 01:37:25.640 --> 01:37:29.840 doubt him. But obviously Jesus, obviously is so smart, so intelligent, 1528 01:37:30.159 --> 01:37:33.760 and so able to just weave, you know, Bob, and 1529 01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:37.399 weave through each conversation in the correct manner. And he 1530 01:37:37.479 --> 01:37:40.279 said to them, neither will this is a Matthew twenty one, 1531 01:37:41.119 --> 01:37:46.880 verse twenty it says, and he said to them, neither 1532 01:37:46.920 --> 01:37:49.119 will I tell you what authority I do these things. 1533 01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:56.680 So because the Pharisees it's not his time. If Jesus said, 1534 01:37:56.960 --> 01:38:00.319 I do this by the authority of my father in Heaven, God, 1535 01:38:00.359 --> 01:38:02.439 the Father, I do this in the authority of God, 1536 01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:04.800 then these people would say he's blaspheming. He's trying to 1537 01:38:04.800 --> 01:38:07.319 say that he's doing it. So that's why Jesus is 1538 01:38:07.359 --> 01:38:13.119 talking like this. The parable of the two sons. But 1539 01:38:13.239 --> 01:38:15.520 what do you think. A man had two sons, and 1540 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:18.479 he came to the first and said, son, go work 1541 01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:21.039 today in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not, 1542 01:38:21.319 --> 01:38:24.119 But afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came 1543 01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:27.600 to the second, and likewise he answered it, said I go, sir, 1544 01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:31.880 But he did not go. Which of the two did 1545 01:38:31.880 --> 01:38:34.079 the will of his father? And they said to him 1546 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:36.560 the first, Jesus said to him, but surely, I say 1547 01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:39.520 to you, the tax collectors and harlots enter the Kingdom 1548 01:38:39.520 --> 01:38:42.439 of God before you. For John came to you in 1549 01:38:42.439 --> 01:38:45.199 the way of righteousness, and you do not believe him. 1550 01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:48.720 But tax collectors and harlots believed him. And when you 1551 01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:57.319 saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him. 1552 01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:02.840 So two cents he came to the first and said, son, 1553 01:39:02.920 --> 01:39:04.920 go work in the vineyard. He answered and said, I 1554 01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:07.960 will not, But afterward he regretted it and went. Then 1555 01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:11.680 the second and said, likewise, he answered and said I go, sir, 1556 01:39:11.880 --> 01:39:15.239 But he did not go. See which one did that? 1557 01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:19.079 He said the first, because he asked for he regretted it, 1558 01:39:19.119 --> 01:39:29.800 and he went. See he's talking to the proud religious folks. Assuredly. 1559 01:39:29.880 --> 01:39:31.600 I say to you that tax collectors in hardly ended 1560 01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:33.399 the kingdom Heaven, for John came to you in a 1561 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:38.199 way of righteousness. See there's gonna be gentiles which are 1562 01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:42.119 like pagans, or those are like harlots, or those are 1563 01:39:42.119 --> 01:39:44.640 like tax collectors. See that those are the gentiles, or 1564 01:39:45.079 --> 01:39:47.399 or the ones that are not believers they ended up 1565 01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:50.359 believing John, or or like you know, people will end 1566 01:39:50.479 --> 01:39:54.479 up believing Jesus and being saved. But these religious pharisees 1567 01:39:55.079 --> 01:39:59.079 will not be able to believe, and they're not gonna 1568 01:39:59.119 --> 01:40:05.640 end up in the kingdom of heaven. The parable of 1569 01:40:05.680 --> 01:40:12.239 the wicked wine vine dressers. Here another parable. There are 1570 01:40:12.279 --> 01:40:15.239 a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a 1571 01:40:15.279 --> 01:40:18.720 hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and 1572 01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:21.640 built a tower. And he leased it to the vine 1573 01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:25.560 dressers and went into a far country. Now, when vintage 1574 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:28.720 time drew near, he sent his servants to the vine 1575 01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:32.079 dressers and they might receive his fruit. And the vine 1576 01:40:32.119 --> 01:40:37.239 dressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. Again. 1577 01:40:37.279 --> 01:40:39.880 He set other servants more than the first, and they 1578 01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:44.880 likewise they did likewise to them. The last of all 1579 01:40:45.239 --> 01:40:47.960 he sent his son to them, saying, they will they 1580 01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:50.840 will respect my son. But when the vine dressers saw 1581 01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:54.760 the sun, they said among themselves, this is the heir. Come, 1582 01:40:55.159 --> 01:40:58.399 let us kill him and seize his inheritance. So they 1583 01:40:58.439 --> 01:41:02.840 took him and cast him out the vineyard and killed him. Therefore, 1584 01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:07.159 when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he 1585 01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:10.359 do to the vine dressers? And they said to him, 1586 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.439 he will destroy those wicked men miserably and lease his 1587 01:41:13.520 --> 01:41:16.439 vineyard to other vine dressers, who will render him to 1588 01:41:16.520 --> 01:41:20.039 the fruits of their seasons. Jesus said, have you never 1589 01:41:20.079 --> 01:41:25.319 read the scriptures? The stone which builders rejected has become 1590 01:41:25.359 --> 01:41:29.000 the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing and is 1591 01:41:29.039 --> 01:41:33.880 marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I say to you, the 1592 01:41:33.960 --> 01:41:36.079 Kingdom of God will be taken from you, given to 1593 01:41:36.159 --> 01:41:38.920 a nation bearing the fruits of it. And whoever falls 1594 01:41:38.920 --> 01:41:41.920 on the stone will be broken, and whoever falls it 1595 01:41:41.960 --> 01:41:48.239 will grind him to powder. So basically saying like they 1596 01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:51.479 will respect my son, this is basically representing Jesus. Then 1597 01:41:51.520 --> 01:41:54.159 they saw the sun and said among himself, this is 1598 01:41:54.159 --> 01:41:57.199 the heir. Jesus is the heir. Come, let us kill 1599 01:41:57.279 --> 01:42:00.159 him and seize his inheritance. So they took him, ask 1600 01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:02.159 them out to the vineyard and kill them. So that's 1601 01:42:02.199 --> 01:42:09.760 what they did to Jesus, right, So very interesting parable here, 1602 01:42:12.279 --> 01:42:15.079 have you never read the scriptures? You know? Is basically 1603 01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:17.239 checking them. Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of 1604 01:42:17.239 --> 01:42:18.880 God will be taken from you and given to the 1605 01:42:18.960 --> 01:42:21.760 nation bearing the fruits of it. So he's speaking to 1606 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:24.760 the Jews because the Jews do not believe in Jesus. 1607 01:42:25.079 --> 01:42:30.840 So it'll be given to a nation like even though 1608 01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:33.279 maybe he's not giving it to the Jews, like it 1609 01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:35.279 could be Gentiles he's given it to but you know 1610 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:39.159 they received the fruits of it. Right, That's what I'm 1611 01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:41.279 kind of gathering from that, am I right? I don't know. 1612 01:42:41.319 --> 01:42:45.119 Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I'm gathering now. When 1613 01:42:45.119 --> 01:42:48.199 the chief priests and Pharisees heard this parables, they perceived 1614 01:42:48.199 --> 01:42:51.119 it that he was speaking to them. See yeah, So 1615 01:42:51.439 --> 01:42:54.600 as I continue reading, I'm seeing that he's speaking to them, 1616 01:42:55.279 --> 01:42:57.199 and that's what they end up trying to do to him. 1617 01:42:57.199 --> 01:42:59.960 They end up killing him, even though he is the heir. 1618 01:43:01.880 --> 01:43:03.960 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they 1619 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:07.720 feared the multitudes because they took him because they took 1620 01:43:07.840 --> 01:43:12.279 him for a prophet. So now they're trying to act 1621 01:43:12.319 --> 01:43:14.800 a certain way because they're fearing the multitudes. They're feeling 1622 01:43:14.800 --> 01:43:17.359 the people. They don't want to cause a riot, and 1623 01:43:17.359 --> 01:43:22.880 they're noticing that people are following Jesus. I think we'll go. 1624 01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:32.600 We'll we'll read chapter twenty two Matthew twenty two, the 1625 01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:38.399 parable of the wedding feast. And this is a Matthew 1626 01:43:38.399 --> 01:43:40.640 twenty two, verse one, if you're following me along. And 1627 01:43:40.760 --> 01:43:43.600 Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables, and said, 1628 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:46.319 the kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who 1629 01:43:46.399 --> 01:43:49.119 arranged a marriage for his son, and set out his 1630 01:43:49.159 --> 01:43:51.600 servants to call those who were invited to the wedding. 1631 01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:54.399 And they were not willing to come. Again, he sent 1632 01:43:54.479 --> 01:43:56.960 out other servants, saying, tell those who are invited, see, 1633 01:43:57.000 --> 01:43:59.279 I have prepared my dinner, My oxen, fat and cattle 1634 01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:01.920 are killed, and all these things are ready. Come to 1635 01:44:01.960 --> 01:44:04.920 the wedding. But they made light of it and went 1636 01:44:04.960 --> 01:44:09.680 their ways of one of his own farm, another to 1637 01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:14.000 his business, and they the rest seized. His servants treated 1638 01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:16.880 them spitefully and killed them. But when the king heard 1639 01:44:16.880 --> 01:44:20.000 about it. He was furious, and he sent out his armies, 1640 01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:24.199 destroyed those murders and burnt up the city. Then he 1641 01:44:24.319 --> 01:44:27.399 said to his servants, this wedding is ready, but those 1642 01:44:27.439 --> 01:44:30.239 who were invited were not worthy. Therefore, go into the 1643 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:32.880 highways and as many as you can find a invite 1644 01:44:32.920 --> 01:44:35.520 to the wedding. For those servants went out to the 1645 01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:38.520 highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad 1646 01:44:38.560 --> 01:44:41.479 and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 1647 01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:46.800 So what I'm gathering here is the Jews were supposed 1648 01:44:46.840 --> 01:44:50.159 to accept their messiah, but if you notice, they're not 1649 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:54.000 accepting their messiah. So they were invited to the wedding. 1650 01:44:54.119 --> 01:44:56.560 They were invited to be saved. They were supposed to 1651 01:44:56.640 --> 01:45:01.199 be the guest. But what happened is they didn't accept 1652 01:45:01.319 --> 01:45:09.199 Jesus as the messiah, so they killed him. Right. The king, 1653 01:45:09.359 --> 01:45:13.760 being God, the father I guess here, sent out his 1654 01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:17.000 armies to destroy the murderers, burn up the city, and 1655 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:18.880 he said to his servant's a wedding. They still wanted 1656 01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:21.199 the wedding, so wanted the people to be saved, and 1657 01:45:21.239 --> 01:45:24.159 then they just gathered him throughout the city. Right, That's 1658 01:45:24.199 --> 01:45:27.680 what I'm gathering here, and it says that the wedding 1659 01:45:28.079 --> 01:45:31.720 hall was filled with guests. So even the Jews that 1660 01:45:31.760 --> 01:45:35.079 are not accepting Jesus as a Messiah, well, what is it? 1661 01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:38.399 So there's gentiles now that are accepting Jesus in Messiah. 1662 01:45:38.640 --> 01:45:42.880 Now they're at the wedding because these hard heartened people, 1663 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:47.279 siff neck people, the Pharisees, and the ones that didn't 1664 01:45:47.279 --> 01:45:49.439 accept Jesus as in Messiah, they're not going to be 1665 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:53.039 at the wedding, it says. But when the king came 1666 01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:55.920 to see the guests, he saw a man there who 1667 01:45:55.960 --> 01:45:58.960 did not have on a wedding garment, and he said 1668 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:02.159 to him, friend, how did you come in here without 1669 01:46:02.159 --> 01:46:05.279 a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then the king 1670 01:46:05.319 --> 01:46:08.239 said to his servants, bind him hand and foot, take 1671 01:46:08.359 --> 01:46:11.000 him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There will 1672 01:46:11.039 --> 01:46:13.920 be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many you are called, 1673 01:46:14.239 --> 01:46:23.560 but few are chosen. What is the wedding garment? Was 1674 01:46:23.600 --> 01:46:26.640 that person maybe fronting like they are saved, but they 1675 01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:34.199 actually aren't. And he's like maybe lukewarm, and that's why 1676 01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:40.239 he was sent into outer darkness. Let's see Matthew twenty 1677 01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:47.680 two verse eleven, and guys, yeah, I try to do 1678 01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:54.000 my best to interpret these for you guys. I could 1679 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:56.000 be wrong, you know, I could be right, could be wrong, 1680 01:46:56.319 --> 01:46:58.479 you know. I'll just try to do my best. Let's see, 1681 01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:01.680 let's see, let's see it. Let's see what that is 1682 01:47:01.720 --> 01:47:08.079 that is going to be twenty two, verse eleven. I 1683 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:10.239 just kind of want to see what this wedding garment 1684 01:47:10.359 --> 01:47:25.640 was representing, remnant cloak or outer garment. Remnant. Okay, so yeah, 1685 01:47:25.840 --> 01:47:32.079 very interesting. We'll continue. We're going to be Matthew twenty two, 1686 01:47:33.079 --> 01:47:36.560 verse fifteen. Then the Pharisees went out and plotted how 1687 01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:41.239 they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent 1688 01:47:41.319 --> 01:47:46.680 to him their disciples with Herodians, saying, teacher, we know 1689 01:47:46.760 --> 01:47:49.199 that you are true and teach the way of God 1690 01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:52.359 in truth. Nor do you care about anyone You do 1691 01:47:52.439 --> 01:47:55.479 not regard the person of men. Tell us, therefore, what 1692 01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:57.640 do you think is it lawful to pay taxes to 1693 01:47:57.720 --> 01:48:03.079 Casar or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, 1694 01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:06.039 why do you test me, you hypocrites? Show me the 1695 01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:09.880 tax money. So they brought him a dinaries, and he 1696 01:48:09.960 --> 01:48:13.039 said to them, whose image and inscription is this? And 1697 01:48:13.079 --> 01:48:15.920 they said to him, Caesar's and he said to them, 1698 01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:19.039 render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and 1699 01:48:19.159 --> 01:48:22.119 to God the things that are God's. And they heard 1700 01:48:22.159 --> 01:48:24.640 these words, and they marveled and left him, and they 1701 01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:27.199 went their way. So he's just letting him know, you 1702 01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.640 ain't gonna catch me slipping, you know, because if you 1703 01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:32.720 would have said that, don't give that to Caesar, then 1704 01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:35.159 obviously he would have been arrested and killed right there. 1705 01:48:35.520 --> 01:48:38.000 So he had to do it very smoothly. And that's 1706 01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:41.640 the way Jesus operated. He spoke like this because it 1707 01:48:41.720 --> 01:48:46.199 wasn't his time yet. He's trying to do God's will 1708 01:48:46.560 --> 01:48:49.079 and there's a certain timing and everything that has to happen, 1709 01:48:49.439 --> 01:48:51.560 and he needs to die on the cross, but he 1710 01:48:51.640 --> 01:48:55.279 needs to do it in God's timing, not in man's timing. 1711 01:48:55.560 --> 01:48:57.760 So they're trying to slip him up. But look what 1712 01:48:57.800 --> 01:49:03.239 he says, Yes, pay your taxes, therefore to Caesar the 1713 01:49:03.279 --> 01:49:06.279 things that are Caesar's, and to God that things are 1714 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:11.039 God's right. So he's not going to get caught slipping. 1715 01:49:11.560 --> 01:49:16.439 He's too smart. The Saddescees, what about the resurrection the 1716 01:49:16.520 --> 01:49:19.760 same day the Sadducees who say there is no resurrection, 1717 01:49:19.920 --> 01:49:23.680 came to him and asked him, saying, Teacher Moses. Now 1718 01:49:23.720 --> 01:49:27.560 the Sadducees were like very liberal, right, so they're trying 1719 01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:30.960 to say there's no resurrection. They came to him asked him, saying, 1720 01:49:31.039 --> 01:49:34.800 Teacher Moses said that if a man dies having no children, 1721 01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:38.159 his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring 1722 01:49:38.239 --> 01:49:42.520 for his brother. Now there were with us seven brothers. 1723 01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:45.840 The first died after he married and having no offspring 1724 01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:49.279 with his wife to his brother. Likewise, the second, also, 1725 01:49:49.319 --> 01:49:52.359 the third, even the seventh, last of all the women, 1726 01:49:52.439 --> 01:49:56.800 all died. Also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of 1727 01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:01.039 the seven will she be? For they all had her. 1728 01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:04.199 And Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken, 1729 01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:06.960 not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. For 1730 01:50:07.079 --> 01:50:11.199 in the resurrection they neither marry nor given in marriage, 1731 01:50:11.640 --> 01:50:15.560 but are like angels of God in heaven. But concerning 1732 01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:19.279 the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what 1733 01:50:19.479 --> 01:50:21.600 was spoken to you by God, saying I am the 1734 01:50:21.640 --> 01:50:24.760 God of Abraham, God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. 1735 01:50:25.199 --> 01:50:27.840 God is not the God of the dead, but of 1736 01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:30.520 the living. And when the multitudes heards us. They were 1737 01:50:30.520 --> 01:50:37.000 astonished by his teaching. So understand something, when you are 1738 01:50:37.039 --> 01:50:40.840 in heaven, you are not going to I don't. It 1739 01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:45.640 doesn't seem here that you're going to be. That's not 1740 01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:48.399 going to be your focus being married. Like we are 1741 01:50:48.439 --> 01:50:52.920 here here on earth. Our focus here is God first, 1742 01:50:53.119 --> 01:50:54.800 and then you know a lot of us end up 1743 01:50:54.800 --> 01:50:58.319 getting married and then having kids. So our focuses is God, 1744 01:50:58.399 --> 01:51:00.359 and then our focus is wife and then our focus 1745 01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:02.920 as kids. You know, this is a different thing than 1746 01:51:02.960 --> 01:51:05.560 happens in heaven. And it's saying we are more like 1747 01:51:05.640 --> 01:51:08.720 the angels of God in heaven. Doesn't say we are angels, 1748 01:51:08.720 --> 01:51:11.520 but we are like the angels in heaven worshiping God. 1749 01:51:11.920 --> 01:51:14.800 You know, we're doing things for the Lord, right, So 1750 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:19.199 it's just different. So he's saying, have you not you 1751 01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:23.399 don't know the scriptures? And this is another thing. This 1752 01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:26.159 is one of those verses that people say, well, look, angels, 1753 01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:28.840 they can't marry, they can't be with women. It says 1754 01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:32.039 it right here. But you see, when you have your 1755 01:51:32.079 --> 01:51:35.159 heavenly body, you're not going to be getting married. But 1756 01:51:35.239 --> 01:51:38.079 if you shed your heavenly body or you're okitarian as 1757 01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:41.680 it says in the Book of Jude, they left their 1758 01:51:41.680 --> 01:51:45.399 heavenly abode or their okaitarian or their heavenly body to 1759 01:51:45.439 --> 01:51:48.079 come down here and have sex with women. As different 1760 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:50.840 they came down in the physical and they had sex 1761 01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:53.920 with the women. So I think that's something that people 1762 01:51:53.960 --> 01:51:57.680 try to say. But anyways, understand that it's Jesus is 1763 01:51:57.720 --> 01:52:02.520 letting them know. It's like, you don't even know the scriptures, 1764 01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:08.399 if you're asking me this question. The scribes, which is 1765 01:52:08.520 --> 01:52:11.920 the first commandment of all? But when the Pharisees heard 1766 01:52:11.960 --> 01:52:14.439 that this is now we're at Matthew twenty two, verse 1767 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:17.159 thirty four. But when the Pharisees heard that he had 1768 01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:20.479 silenced the statuses, they gathered together. Then one of them, 1769 01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:23.199 a lawyer, asked them a question, testing him and saying, teacher, 1770 01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:27.079 what is the great commandment in the law? Which is 1771 01:52:27.359 --> 01:52:30.520 the great commandment in the law. Jesus said to him, 1772 01:52:30.560 --> 01:52:34.520 you shall love your Lord. You shall love the Lord 1773 01:52:34.600 --> 01:52:37.800 your God with all your heart, with all your soul, 1774 01:52:38.279 --> 01:52:41.039 and with all your mind. This is the first and 1775 01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:45.600 great commandment. And the second is like it. You shall 1776 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:49.800 love your neighbor as yourself. And these two commandments hang 1777 01:52:49.960 --> 01:52:54.199 all the Law and the prophets. On these two commandments 1778 01:52:54.279 --> 01:52:59.159 hang all the law and the prophets. Because, first of all, 1779 01:52:59.279 --> 01:53:08.039 think about it, think about what he said. You shall 1780 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:10.920 love the Lord your God with all your heart, with 1781 01:53:11.000 --> 01:53:15.800 all your soul, with all your mind. If you love 1782 01:53:15.960 --> 01:53:19.479 the Lord with all your heart, with your soul and 1783 01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:25.600 your mind, you will be totally obedient to God's commandments. 1784 01:53:26.319 --> 01:53:32.560 You will be completely obedient. So obviously, if you were 1785 01:53:32.640 --> 01:53:36.520 to do that and love your Lord God with your heart, 1786 01:53:36.640 --> 01:53:40.560 your soul, and your mind, then that would be you 1787 01:53:40.600 --> 01:53:44.640 would be totally in obedience with all the other commandments. 1788 01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:50.119 So that's perfect. And then the second is if you 1789 01:53:50.159 --> 01:53:54.680 shall love your neighbor as yourself. So if you love 1790 01:53:54.760 --> 01:53:57.840 the Lord God with all your mind, body, soul, right all, 1791 01:53:57.960 --> 01:54:00.560 and you love him the way that you so love 1792 01:54:00.600 --> 01:54:03.199 to God is by following his commandments, then you would 1793 01:54:03.239 --> 01:54:07.479 be perfect. And then if you love your neighbor as yourself, 1794 01:54:07.640 --> 01:54:12.359 that means that you are not disrespecting your brother or 1795 01:54:12.359 --> 01:54:14.880 your you know, your fellow brothers in Christ, or you're 1796 01:54:14.880 --> 01:54:17.880 not doing anything to them, and also you're respecting them 1797 01:54:17.960 --> 01:54:20.600 and they're respecting their property and respecting their wives and 1798 01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:23.960 respecting Then you're you're following all the commandments. It covers 1799 01:54:24.000 --> 01:54:29.359 all of them. You understand, if you love your neighbor 1800 01:54:29.479 --> 01:54:32.319 as yourself, you wouldn't murder your neighbor. If you love 1801 01:54:32.359 --> 01:54:36.560 your neighbor, then you're more than yourself. Then as yourself, 1802 01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:41.520 then you wouldn't commit adultery with his wife. If you 1803 01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:44.319 love your neighbor, you're not gonna covet what he has. 1804 01:54:45.279 --> 01:54:47.520 If you love the Lord God with all your heart, 1805 01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:51.640 seet because there's some commandments that are aimed towards the Lord, 1806 01:54:52.159 --> 01:54:55.960 and then there's other commandments that are aimed towards you personally. 1807 01:54:57.159 --> 01:54:58.640 You see that. I think there's four of them that 1808 01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:00.520 go to the Lord, and then six of them that 1809 01:55:00.680 --> 01:55:03.319 don't you know, that are more towards yourself or what 1810 01:55:03.359 --> 01:55:05.760 you could do. And then there's also one that you 1811 01:55:06.279 --> 01:55:08.640 could actually do in your mind, which is covet your 1812 01:55:08.680 --> 01:55:13.880 neighbor's stuff. That's a sinning in your mind. Right. So, 1813 01:55:13.880 --> 01:55:17.479 so this will cover all the commandments and the law 1814 01:55:18.880 --> 01:55:22.560 is what Jesus is saying. That's why he said these 1815 01:55:22.560 --> 01:55:25.439 are the two greatest, because it would cover all basis 1816 01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:31.640 if you follow these, which if the people knew the 1817 01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:34.680 law and they know the commandments, they would know that 1818 01:55:34.800 --> 01:55:40.079 Jesus has covered all basis on these, So it is 1819 01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:48.239 definitely a great response to what they asked, how can 1820 01:55:48.359 --> 01:55:52.279 David call his descendants lord? When the Pharisees were gathered together, 1821 01:55:52.840 --> 01:55:57.359 Jesus asked them, saying, what do you think about the Christ? 1822 01:55:57.840 --> 01:56:02.560 Whose son is he? The Christ the Messiah? And they 1823 01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:05.239 said to him, the son of David. And he said 1824 01:56:05.239 --> 01:56:08.560 to them, how then does David in the spirit call 1825 01:56:08.680 --> 01:56:12.399 him lord? Saying the Lord said to my Lord, sit 1826 01:56:12.479 --> 01:56:15.520 at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. 1827 01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:20.680 This is very interesting. If David calls him lord, how 1828 01:56:20.800 --> 01:56:23.439 is he his son? And no one was able to 1829 01:56:23.479 --> 01:56:27.479 answer him a word, Nor that day on did anyone 1830 01:56:27.600 --> 01:56:36.479 dare question him anymore. So, Jesus is the son of 1831 01:56:36.600 --> 01:56:40.560 David or like in David's lineage in the physical, but 1832 01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:45.359 Jesus the Christ is the son of God in the 1833 01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:50.960 spiritual right, so they're not able to question him because listen, 1834 01:56:51.039 --> 01:56:55.640 look what they're saying. The Lord said to my Lord, 1835 01:56:57.279 --> 01:56:59.439 sit at my right hand till I make your enemies 1836 01:56:59.439 --> 01:57:05.239 your foot stot. So how then does David in the 1837 01:57:05.479 --> 01:57:10.960 spirit call him lord? You understand, David is Yes, he's 1838 01:57:10.960 --> 01:57:13.439 in the line of David. Yes, he's in the physical 1839 01:57:13.479 --> 01:57:17.760 line of David. Jesus's physical vessel, which is a man, right, 1840 01:57:18.319 --> 01:57:22.159 but Jesus is God, right. That's why he says, the 1841 01:57:22.199 --> 01:57:25.000 Lord said to my Lord. He's saying that he is 1842 01:57:25.039 --> 01:57:27.960 the son of God. But they're not able to say 1843 01:57:28.000 --> 01:57:30.600 that because if you're the son of God, you were 1844 01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:33.760 equal to God. So that's why they didn't question him anymore. 1845 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:37.039 They're like, Wow, he just kind of blew our minds 1846 01:57:37.079 --> 01:57:48.079 right there. So we are done for this episode. I 1847 01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:50.520 think that we covered a lot of basis right there, 1848 01:57:50.560 --> 01:57:53.239 a lot of ground. We did Matthew eighteen all the 1849 01:57:53.239 --> 01:57:56.960 way to twenty two. I thought that was definitely a 1850 01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:03.199 great study. So yeah, that's Wednesday service. And you know, guys, 1851 01:58:03.279 --> 01:58:05.960 I just want to tell you guys, when you know, 1852 01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:09.399 normal pastors when they teach on Sunday, they probably do 1853 01:58:09.479 --> 01:58:14.520 a forty five minute message, and for for me to 1854 01:58:14.560 --> 01:58:19.159 do a two hour message to you guys, just letting 1855 01:58:19.199 --> 01:58:23.960 you know, we're covering a lot of ground. So by 1856 01:58:23.960 --> 01:58:28.840 the time we get to you know, revelation in the 1857 01:58:29.720 --> 01:58:33.760 in the New Testament, and we get through the Old Testament. 1858 01:58:33.880 --> 01:58:36.239 You know, I think within a year we could probably 1859 01:58:36.279 --> 01:58:39.560 get through the whole Bible, which is going to be amazing. 1860 01:58:40.159 --> 01:58:44.079 So it is it's gonna help us both you know, 1861 01:58:44.640 --> 01:58:50.000 whoever's listening, ah just developed spiritually. It's going to help 1862 01:58:50.039 --> 01:58:52.720 us develop mentally, and it's going to help us with 1863 01:58:52.760 --> 01:58:55.920 our walk with God. So all I could say to 1864 01:58:55.960 --> 01:58:59.279 you guys is hang in there, let's do this, and 1865 01:58:59.399 --> 01:59:03.000 let's try to cover the whole Bible. And I think 1866 01:59:03.039 --> 01:59:06.880 that it's it's very it's very awesome for Jonathan and 1867 01:59:06.960 --> 01:59:13.479 Jacob to allow me to be on their channel doing 1868 01:59:13.520 --> 01:59:16.439 this study. I mean, it's it's crazy that they ended 1869 01:59:16.520 --> 01:59:19.119 up being what it is right now because it started 1870 01:59:19.159 --> 01:59:22.760 out with just Sunday Service where I was just going 1871 01:59:22.840 --> 01:59:26.399 to have guests on and just talk about the Bible. 1872 01:59:26.800 --> 01:59:30.479 And then it turned into me praying and asking God, 1873 01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:32.079 like what do you want me to do? Like it's 1874 01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:35.600 called Sunday Service. I better better teach the Bible like 1875 01:59:36.680 --> 01:59:40.680 a pastor would, and I better preach and I better teach. 1876 01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:44.399 So then Sunday Service was just me going through the 1877 01:59:44.399 --> 01:59:47.760 Old Testament. I started with the Book of Genesis and 1878 01:59:47.800 --> 01:59:50.760 now I'm on I just finished the Book of Exodus, 1879 01:59:52.399 --> 01:59:55.119 and then Wednesday Service got you know, I got invited 1880 01:59:55.159 --> 01:59:58.119 to do Wednesday Service, and I thought, what better thing 1881 01:59:58.159 --> 02:00:01.159 to do than to do the New Testament because I 1882 02:00:01.279 --> 02:00:03.880 knew that you guys need that, Like there's a lot 1883 02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:05.960 of people that are not like fully saved yet that 1884 02:00:06.000 --> 02:00:09.279 are probably listening, it seems to me that need that 1885 02:00:09.399 --> 02:00:13.279 New Testament teaching. So I was very excited when they 1886 02:00:13.319 --> 02:00:17.560 asked me to do Wednesday service. So in a nutshell, guys, 1887 02:00:17.600 --> 02:00:19.680 it's gonna be awesome. I think that we could probably 1888 02:00:19.680 --> 02:00:23.560 go through the whole Bible, you know, maybe in six 1889 02:00:23.600 --> 02:00:27.479 to seven months, maybe eight months. We're going through about 1890 02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:35.680 four chapters every show, so four chapters of show, so 1891 02:00:35.800 --> 02:00:37.520 you know, it's obviously going to take longer because there's 1892 02:00:37.520 --> 02:00:40.279 only one show a week. But I think that we 1893 02:00:40.279 --> 02:00:43.239 could go through the Bible, you know, and I think 1894 02:00:43.279 --> 02:00:45.039 we could do it, and I think that's going to 1895 02:00:45.079 --> 02:00:48.000 be amazing. And if I end up doing this, you know, 1896 02:00:48.439 --> 02:00:51.680 continuing on their channel, we'll go through the Bible again 1897 02:00:52.199 --> 02:00:54.359 and I'll know even more stuff, so I'll be able 1898 02:00:54.359 --> 02:00:57.359 to teach even deeper and have even more studies. And 1899 02:00:57.600 --> 02:00:59.600 this is all this is doing, is assisting me in 1900 02:00:59.640 --> 02:01:03.720 my walk up and teaching me when I do my show, 1901 02:01:03.760 --> 02:01:05.720 when I have a guest on and they bring something up, 1902 02:01:05.800 --> 02:01:08.520 now I have something to talk about even more. It's 1903 02:01:08.560 --> 02:01:11.279 it's it's helping me do in depth studies on this stuff, 1904 02:01:11.279 --> 02:01:14.199 and it's really assisting me with my walk. And I 1905 02:01:14.359 --> 02:01:17.840 pray and and you're sure of the Machiak's name and 1906 02:01:17.960 --> 02:01:21.039 Jesus's name that it's helping you with your walk. And 1907 02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:25.199 what I would ask you guys to do is share 1908 02:01:25.279 --> 02:01:28.960 the show with somebody that needs it. Share the show 1909 02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:33.079 with someone that that maybe doesn't need it, someone that 1910 02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:35.119 you think doesn't even need it, just so that they 1911 02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:39.960 get this, they get to they get this teaching, because 1912 02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:43.920 you never know what people are going through. So if 1913 02:01:43.960 --> 02:01:46.520 you could, all I ask, I don't want you to donate. 1914 02:01:46.680 --> 02:01:48.720 I don't want you to give me money. I don't 1915 02:01:48.720 --> 02:01:58.760 want for the physical gifts of money. I want I 1916 02:01:58.840 --> 02:02:01.840 want you guys to share the show so that people 1917 02:02:01.920 --> 02:02:05.920 get saved. That's what this is for. So yeah, so 1918 02:02:06.000 --> 02:02:09.520 this is just for me. It's amazing to be able 1919 02:02:09.560 --> 02:02:13.399 to do the show, and it's really assisting me in 1920 02:02:13.479 --> 02:02:16.399 my walk, and it's assisting me in my life, and 1921 02:02:16.560 --> 02:02:18.319 I just want to thank each and every one of 1922 02:02:18.359 --> 02:02:21.720 you that prayed for my wife and prayed for my baby, 1923 02:02:22.840 --> 02:02:26.600 asking Psalms Monday to be born. I really appreciate you guys, 1924 02:02:27.039 --> 02:02:30.359 and uh yeah, it's it's it really touched our hearts. 1925 02:02:30.399 --> 02:02:33.520 You know that you guys all left messages and and 1926 02:02:34.640 --> 02:02:40.800 left comments on Spotify because the Body of Christ is 1927 02:02:40.840 --> 02:02:44.359 just amazing. So thank you guys for that. Like I said, 1928 02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:47.119 if you guys are having any issues like going through 1929 02:02:47.199 --> 02:02:50.760 spiritual battle, maybe you're listening to the show and you're like, hey, 1930 02:02:50.760 --> 02:02:53.399 I have a question about this. Maybe you've listened to 1931 02:02:53.439 --> 02:02:56.279 my past episodes and you have a question about them. 1932 02:02:56.840 --> 02:02:58.319 All you you know, all you got to do is 1933 02:02:58.439 --> 02:03:03.279 DM me at Josh Monday under Score podcast that's Instagram 1934 02:03:03.479 --> 02:03:05.199 and you can just DM me and I will be 1935 02:03:05.239 --> 02:03:08.319 there for you guys. Okay, thank you so much, And 1936 02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:11.199 like we always do, we're gonna end this in prayer. 1937 02:03:11.319 --> 02:03:15.000 So Father God in the name of Jesus, and is 1938 02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:18.479 she with the Mischiak's name, Lord the Christ. You know 1939 02:03:18.880 --> 02:03:21.399 you allowed us to go through the Book of Matthew. 1940 02:03:21.479 --> 02:03:24.359 So far we're getting close to the end. I really 1941 02:03:24.399 --> 02:03:27.600 appreciate you, Lord forgiving us this time, giving me this 1942 02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:33.159 audience to speak to and allowing me to be a 1943 02:03:33.199 --> 02:03:36.920 shepherd teaching the Bible. How crazy is that? Lord? I mean, 1944 02:03:37.399 --> 02:03:41.479 I really appreciate you giving me this opportunity. I just 1945 02:03:41.520 --> 02:03:44.520 pray that if people have ears, just let him hear 1946 02:03:44.640 --> 02:03:46.720 the word of God and let it resonate with them 1947 02:03:46.760 --> 02:03:52.039 and assist them and in their walk spiritually assist them. 1948 02:03:52.439 --> 02:03:54.319 I just want to say, Lord, thank you so much 1949 02:03:54.359 --> 02:03:58.199 for giving me people to pray for the situation that 1950 02:03:58.279 --> 02:04:00.920 I was in this past week. You know exactly what 1951 02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:03.239 I went through, and I just want to ask you 1952 02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:06.640 to accept asp and spirit in heaven and I know 1953 02:04:06.720 --> 02:04:09.880 that He's with you. And when I do end up 1954 02:04:09.920 --> 02:04:14.159 going to heaven, I don't know how it works, Lord, 1955 02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:16.600 but if it works to where I'm able to see 1956 02:04:16.640 --> 02:04:19.600 him again, Lord, I would really appreciate that. But I 1957 02:04:19.640 --> 02:04:21.439 just want to say thank you, Father God for everything 1958 02:04:21.520 --> 02:04:23.680 you do for us. And there's a lot of people 1959 02:04:23.760 --> 02:04:26.560 out there that are struggling. Lord. Some people maybe listen 1960 02:04:26.640 --> 02:04:29.439 to the show that are going through some of the 1961 02:04:30.119 --> 02:04:32.800 things that are causing them to stumble, like we've talked about, 1962 02:04:33.399 --> 02:04:35.840 and there's people in their life that are causing them 1963 02:04:35.840 --> 02:04:38.760 to stumble. Lord, I asked that you assist them in 1964 02:04:38.880 --> 02:04:42.119 rebuking them and keeping away from them. And if there's 1965 02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:46.560 any triggers that are causing anybody that have addictions, assist 1966 02:04:46.640 --> 02:04:50.560 them in overcoming those hurdles in their life. Because I 1967 02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:52.880 know how it is to be addicted to something, and 1968 02:04:54.239 --> 02:04:56.239 you help me through that. So help these people that 1969 02:04:56.279 --> 02:04:58.439 are listening. Lord. There's a lot of people out there 1970 02:04:58.439 --> 02:05:02.880 that are probably struggling with alcohol, with drugs, with any 1971 02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:04.960 kind of addiction. Lord, I just asked that you break 1972 02:05:05.000 --> 02:05:07.920 these strongholds that the devil have them in. And I 1973 02:05:08.039 --> 02:05:11.640 ask in Jesus Name, Amen, thank you Lord for that. 1974 02:05:11.800 --> 02:05:13.760 I appreciate you. Thank you for everything you do. Lord. 1975 02:05:13.840 --> 02:05:16.319 I love you in Jesus Name. Amen. Thank you guys 1976 02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:20.039 for listening. And yes, what an awesome show. I will 1977 02:05:20.079 --> 02:05:23.439 see you guys next week for Wednesday service. But this 1978 02:05:23.680 --> 02:05:26.920 week on Sunday service, I'm starting the Book of Leviticus. 1979 02:05:27.640 --> 02:05:31.319 I'm gonna do my best, so it's like a it's 1980 02:05:31.359 --> 02:05:36.760 gonna be interesting, the Book of Leviticus. I'm going to 1981 02:05:36.840 --> 02:05:39.520 do my very best to teach that. And yeah, join 1982 02:05:39.600 --> 02:05:44.319 me for Sunday service. And I appreciate you joining me 1983 02:05:44.359 --> 02:05:46.880 for Wednesday service and if you want to follow me 1984 02:05:47.000 --> 02:05:52.159 on YouTube, it's Josh Monday and Josh Monday Music and 1985 02:05:52.279 --> 02:05:56.159 Podcast on YouTube. If you could please follow, And I 1986 02:05:56.199 --> 02:05:59.199 appreciate everybody that's listening. I love you and God bless you.