Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, episode ten, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Could Conspiracy Podcasts. I'm your host, Josh Monday.
Speaker 1: If you don't know me, I'm a Christian rapper, devoted husband, father,
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Speaker 1: now we have six comments and we got gummo, got
Speaker 1: questions following through. Just got to chapter five, verse eleven.
Speaker 1: Just found God not long ago and never read the
Speaker 1: Bible before. It's fairly new to me. Besides all the
Speaker 1: broad strokes and stories I remember from my grandma telling
Speaker 1: me it's cool going over it from an adult perspective
Speaker 1: now that I'm thirty eight, just picking it up seriously,
Speaker 1: Hey man, let's go off all the years dissecting conspiracies.
Speaker 1: Sam Tripprey really put it well, all conspiracies lead to spirituality.
Speaker 1: This is true. Thanks Josh. I've been tuning in every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Josh Monday Underscore podcast And I have no problem answering questions.
Speaker 1: And since you are, you know, the Bible's alive to
Speaker 1: you right now when you're on fire, it seems like
Speaker 1: I'm here for you, you know, to answer questions and
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean gray eyes almost looks like the
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Speaker 1: you know, like her eyes are like gray, dude, but
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Speaker 1: I can't get mad at her either. It's very hard.
Speaker 1: My other dog, my Shepsky, he's out of control. I
Speaker 1: think I talked about that on the other show. And
Speaker 1: I still love him though. He's real, like really good
Speaker 1: tempered dog, Like it'll come up to you like he's happy,
Speaker 1: but when you leave him then he's like, Okay, let
Speaker 1: me just be a psycho and eat everything. So anyways,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's crazy, but more as a
Speaker 1: as a as a menace to my wife because she
Speaker 1: has cactus outside and she has a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: To me, yeah, I just deal with the aftermath of it,
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, next, so Aerin, Yeah, much left to you,
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Speaker 1: garz at eighty four to zero two. Great show. Keep
Speaker 1: up the great work. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you. Okay, I see you commenting like
Speaker 1: every week Sean and Sarah. I made it. Good work. Brother.
Speaker 1: You are helping me with God's Word throughout my workday,
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Speaker 1: honestly it's good. It's really good for us to be
Speaker 1: going through the Word together. Okay, it's really good for
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Speaker 1: able to be on the journey with you, Sean and Sarah.
Speaker 1: And I'm so happy that that we're able to be
Speaker 1: on this journey and this mission. You know, thank God,
Speaker 1: thank thank the Good Lord that is giving me a
Speaker 1: voice and a platform to read the Bible to you guys.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. Stavo. I always see you here.
Speaker 1: I listened to all the episodes. Thank you, and you
Speaker 1: know MDMP twenty two. So what I want to say
Speaker 1: is this the Book of Numbers. I was so exhausted
Speaker 1: last week when I was doing that that that study.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for sticking with me and sticking through
Speaker 1: to the end and that is amazing and White Rabbit Podcast,
Speaker 1: what's up? Brother, Catalyst Jones? Thank you man, you said
Speaker 1: you made it to the end. Well, big shout out
Speaker 1: to you too, brother, And I appreciate you, bro, and
Speaker 1: thank you for the words of encouragement. And I do
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And like I said, Brad Gillis once again, man,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. So we are going
Speaker 1: to be in Mark ten. Okay, so that's gonna be
Speaker 1: where we start. Let's go ahead and share. And I
Speaker 1: got a buttload of energy compared to through Sunday Service,
Speaker 1: believe me. But I did you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, know what I mean. You know what I
Speaker 1: did though, is I'm covering down because I'm about to
Speaker 1: become a lead in my job. You know, God is great,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. And that's gonna happen in like June.
Speaker 1: So I'm basically I'm in production, which means I'm doing
Speaker 1: like the mental side. You know, it's kind of it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's like it's hard on me mentally, right, So you
Speaker 1: gotta you got a lot of stress and and you
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff on you. You know, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with the system with Skater, with computers, You're you're
Speaker 1: walking going to each site, taking residuals, doing volume metrics,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm also sometimes covering down, like today,
Speaker 1: I did all that and then I had to cover
Speaker 1: down on the service crew and help them out, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's a lot of people are out right now.
Speaker 1: So sometimes that happens, and it makes me very, very
Speaker 1: tired by the time I get to the podcast, which
Speaker 1: is at nine o'clock at night my time, or nine thirty,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm just I'm beat. So today I feel
Speaker 1: pretty good, so let's get this show on the road.
Speaker 1: And it also it's it's, you know, the New Testament.
Speaker 1: That's why I know now, I know why pastors have
Speaker 1: the Old Testament on Wednesday and the New Testament on Sunday, right,
Speaker 1: because the New Testament to me, is so much easier
Speaker 1: to teach, and it's so much more relatable for us
Speaker 1: in this in these times. But the Old Testament is
Speaker 1: the foundation for why we even need Jesus, right, He's
Speaker 1: all over the pages in the Old Testament. So what
Speaker 1: I would say is, you know, it's I'm gonna honestly
Speaker 1: admit out loud it's easier and it flows better when
Speaker 1: I do teach the New Testament, obviously, but you know
Speaker 1: what you guys could do. You can look forward to
Speaker 1: next week, right, or you know when I found out
Speaker 1: when I do some service, get that meat and potatoes
Speaker 1: and then boom, we get meet potatoes on Wednesday with
Speaker 1: Wednesday service. So what a blessing it is. So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get dig into the Bible. Now Mark
Speaker 1: ten verse one. Marriage and divorce is the subject, okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to kind of go over a few
Speaker 1: things after we do this. So then he arose, This
Speaker 1: is going to be Mark ten verse one. Then he
Speaker 1: arose from there and came to the region of Judea,
Speaker 1: by the other side of the Jordan, and multitudes gathered
Speaker 1: to him again, and he was accustomed. He taught them again.
Speaker 1: The Pharisees came and asked him, is it lawful for
Speaker 1: a man to divorce his wife? Testing him? And he
Speaker 1: answered and said to them, what did Moses command you?
Speaker 1: They said, Moses permitted a man to write a certificate
Speaker 1: of divorce to dismiss her. And Jesus answered and said
Speaker 1: to them, because the hardness of your heart, he wrote
Speaker 1: you this precept. But from the beginning of creation, God
Speaker 1: made them male and female. For this reason, a man
Speaker 1: shall leave his father and mother and be joined to
Speaker 1: his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So
Speaker 1: then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore,
Speaker 1: what God has joined together, let not man separate in
Speaker 1: the house his disciple. Okay, here we go. We'll stop
Speaker 1: right there. Okay, we're gonna stop at verse six, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna see what's going on. You know. So some
Speaker 1: rabbi said you could divorce for bizarre reasons. Now I'm
Speaker 1: going to my notes now, okay, I'm stopping the uh,
Speaker 1: the scripture. So some rabbis said you could divorce for
Speaker 1: bizarre reasons like burning your dinner, like if a woman
Speaker 1: burned your dinner, not looking as attractive as when they
Speaker 1: first when you first met. Some said you have to
Speaker 1: definitely divorce or some some said some said that you
Speaker 1: have to have infidelity to divorce. All that was about, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, interpretation of this word in Deuteronomy twenty four
Speaker 1: one through five, the word is indecent. Okay, so some
Speaker 1: rabbis took that word indecent and made it there. They
Speaker 1: put their own twist on it? Right, which happens? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some people that take scriptures and they
Speaker 1: create their own doctrine one scripture or one verse, you know.
Speaker 1: So let's check what this is. This is a Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: twenty four versus one through five. This is what Moses
Speaker 1: said about marriage. That way you could see. So what
Speaker 1: did Moses command you? Right? If a man marries a
Speaker 1: woman who becomes displeasing, this is Deuteronomy twenty four verses
Speaker 1: one through five. If a man marries a woman who
Speaker 1: becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her,
Speaker 1: and he writes her, and he writes her a certificate
Speaker 1: of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her from
Speaker 1: his house. And after she leaves his house, she becomes
Speaker 1: the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes
Speaker 1: her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it
Speaker 1: to her and sends her from his house. Or if
Speaker 1: he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her is
Speaker 1: not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled.
Speaker 1: That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Do not bring sin upon the land. The Lord, your
Speaker 1: God is giving you as an inheritance. If a man
Speaker 1: has recently married, he must be sent to war or
Speaker 1: have any other duty laid on him for one year.
Speaker 1: He is to be free to stay at home and
Speaker 1: bring happiness to the wife he has married. Let's look
Speaker 1: up that word indecent, and I want to see what
Speaker 1: it says in the strongest concordance and find out what
Speaker 1: that word actually means. Does it mean something like infidelity
Speaker 1: or adultery or what does it mean in the strongest concordance.
Speaker 1: Not saying that the strongest concordance is going to be
Speaker 1: one million percent correct, but we do like to look
Speaker 1: at it to see what it says. And that's going
Speaker 1: to be Deuteronomy. Something indecent. Oh well, and decent is
Speaker 1: what we have. Let me look in. Decent is what
Speaker 1: we have in the new King James. When he has
Speaker 1: taken a man a wife and married her, and it
Speaker 1: came to pass that no, she found favor in his
Speaker 1: eyes because he had uncleanliness. Okay, okay, so excuse me, ah,
Speaker 1: excuse me, still getting over that cold from last week. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to look this up because
Speaker 1: they changed it. When a man hath married taken a woman,
Speaker 1: and it came to pass that she found no favor
Speaker 1: in his eyes because he has found some uncleanliness. That's
Speaker 1: the word. Sorry, I appreciate, I mean, I apologize. That's
Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for, not favor. Okay. It says nakedness, nudity, shame, pouenda,
Speaker 1: poenda implying shameful exposure, nakedness of a thing in decency,
Speaker 1: improper behavior, expose, undefended. Okay, So that is the word nakedness. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the same as him the father of Canaan saw
Speaker 1: the nakedness of his father. Oh that's what it was, Okay,
Speaker 1: something that's in decent and it is a thing in
Speaker 1: decency and proper behavior. So it doesn't have to do
Speaker 1: with her cooking em dinner wrong. It doesn't have to do,
Speaker 1: according to the strong, coordinates with him being you know,
Speaker 1: thinking that she doesn't look the same as when he
Speaker 1: first met her, or she's she's kind of being naggy.
Speaker 1: That's not what it means. It means infidelity, according to
Speaker 1: the strong accordance, and probably according to some of these
Speaker 1: lexicons too. I'd have to check, but yeah, uncleanliness is
Speaker 1: the word that's used. So that doesn't mean uncleanliness like, hey,
Speaker 1: she doesn't clean the dishes, Okay, it means that she
Speaker 1: was defiled like infidelity. That's that's more what it means.
Speaker 1: So if so, even back then, it's even saying that
Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy twenty four, verses one through five. Right, So
Speaker 1: what I say is like when God says this, this
Speaker 1: is what's something that passed passor Raoul Reese used to
Speaker 1: say at Calvary Chapel Golden Springs when I went there,
Speaker 1: he says, when you get married, you're like two boards
Speaker 1: that get glued together, right, you're glued together, not now
Speaker 1: you become one and when you divorce, you pull those
Speaker 1: pieces of wood apart and they splinter. Now you can't
Speaker 1: put those back together. Right. So when you try to
Speaker 1: take that man and he divorces that woman, the one
Speaker 1: that he was one with at once, and then you
Speaker 1: try to glue to another piece of wood, it doesn't
Speaker 1: go the same. It's not going to be flush like
Speaker 1: you were with that woman that you became one with,
Speaker 1: you see what I mean. And then it splinters off
Speaker 1: the family and causes massive issues with the kids. It
Speaker 1: causes massive issue with you because you divorce your wife.
Speaker 1: What happens now you only get the kids on the weekend,
Speaker 1: or she gets a kid on the weekend. Now you go,
Speaker 1: You're fighting with this woman the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: She's still involved in your life for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life because you both have kids together. Even though
Speaker 1: you're not together anymore, You're gonna be seeing her with
Speaker 1: another man. You're probably gonna be feeling some type of
Speaker 1: way about that, probably be arguing with her, arguing with
Speaker 1: her new man. And then you got this new man
Speaker 1: taking care of your kids. Do you see why this
Speaker 1: could be a problem. And if you are divorced, I'm
Speaker 1: not judging you. What I'm doing is my job is
Speaker 1: to teach and then preach. So I'm teaching the scriptures
Speaker 1: of what Jesus is saying, and I'm trying to preach to,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that are maybe not married yet,
Speaker 1: maybe they haven't gotten married yet, maybe they haven't met
Speaker 1: that one, you know. But but it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. And if you have been divorced, you
Speaker 1: can understand what I'm saying, and you understand why Jesus
Speaker 1: would say this because it causes so much. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're being abused in a relationship if somebody is going
Speaker 1: out on you and keeps going out on you, going
Speaker 1: out on you. And I'm completely understanding all this, but
Speaker 1: it's my job to read the scripture and try to
Speaker 1: interpret what Jesus is trying to say right here to
Speaker 1: these Pharisees, because it doesn't matter what Moses says. I mean,
Speaker 1: it matters, but who does it matter most what God says?
Speaker 1: Now God is speaking through Moses, yes, but who does
Speaker 1: it really matter? It matters what God says. And when
Speaker 1: it talks about creation right here where it says God
Speaker 1: made male and female for this reason, a man shall
Speaker 1: leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Speaker 1: and the two shall become one flesh. This is God
Speaker 1: speaking because this is a first hand count from the
Speaker 1: most time. And this is also Jesus speaking God in
Speaker 1: the flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not
Speaker 1: man separate, or you could say, no man separate. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I understand though when people get a divorce, and
Speaker 1: my parents got a divorce and it ruined me because
Speaker 1: you know it just you get this metal block at
Speaker 1: the age of fourteen, and it just maybe go sideways
Speaker 1: smoking weed part. I went from a sports star to
Speaker 1: smoking weed, rapping, going to clubs, doing coke, doing this,
Speaker 1: and just going crazy for a long time. And it
Speaker 1: was hard to get my life back on track. And
Speaker 1: I didn't get my life back on track. Believe me,
Speaker 1: God got my life back on track. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: want to go over like some statistics. Okay, about divorce.
Speaker 1: It's very important. So marriage vows are as long as
Speaker 1: we both shall live till death do us art. We
Speaker 1: ain't going to separate unless we die. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to point that out. But in the United States in
Speaker 1: nineteen ten, the divorce rate was ten percent. Why Well,
Speaker 1: in nineteen ten, the Bible was being taught in schools.
Speaker 1: The Bible was being taught. The government was probably still
Speaker 1: very corrupt, but they weren't pushing to get Bibles out
Speaker 1: of school. There wasn't a bunch of people, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, did I live in nineteen ten, No, But
Speaker 1: I know that there was more. The scriptures were way
Speaker 1: more prevalent. Okay, they were not being pushed out of schools, right,
Speaker 1: That's just an example. In nineteen forty eight, the divorce
Speaker 1: rate was about twenty five percent. Nineteen ten, it was
Speaker 1: ten percent nineteen forty eight, twenty five percent jumped up. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then statistics in twenty twenty two, fifty percent of
Speaker 1: married couple's divorce the sixth highest divorce rate in the world.
Speaker 1: Subsequent marriages have even higher divorce rate. Sixty percent of
Speaker 1: second marriages and in divorce and seventy three percent of
Speaker 1: third marriages end up in divorce. You would think that
Speaker 1: three times as a charm. It's not how that sounds like? Geez.
Speaker 1: So what I want to tell you guys, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. There's probably more recent things, but you know,
Speaker 1: I pulled up some notes. Okay, So my point is
Speaker 1: what is happening. Well, there's a few things that happen.
Speaker 1: If you notice, in nineteen forty eight, there was no Instagram,
Speaker 1: there was no Facebook, no TikTok, no internet. So what
Speaker 1: are some of these things that are causing divorces? You know, Well,
Speaker 1: they created Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, all these different apps. They
Speaker 1: created the World Wide Web in between that time. Now
Speaker 1: people can talk to someone in Spain, Germany wherever. I
Speaker 1: mean I could zoom like right now, I mean I
Speaker 1: could zoom somebody like I do on my show in Bangladesh. Whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You can talk to anybody you know.
Speaker 1: So it's one thing. Obviously, pornography is a major problem.
Speaker 1: Even in Christian men. It is a major problem. So
Speaker 1: we have that going on. You got people going to
Speaker 1: the gym in fidelity, you got people even in churches sometimes.
Speaker 1: I mean, you work with people, and you know, the
Speaker 1: best thing you could do if you are if you're
Speaker 1: a If let's say you're a Christian and you and
Speaker 1: you like to work out of the gym, clear out
Speaker 1: your garage and build a gym in your garage, you
Speaker 1: will have no temptation. All you'll be staring at is
Speaker 1: your own arms. I have laugh at my own jokes.
Speaker 1: I'm by myself, right, It's just funny. My wife laughs
Speaker 1: at me because I tell her that, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: nothing to look at, but you're what you're ugly not
Speaker 1: seeing you guys are ugly, but you know my ugly face.
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there lifting weights the whole time. And
Speaker 1: and then you listen to pastors preach you got no temptation.
Speaker 1: The Devil's like, dang it, I can't send any woman
Speaker 1: in there besides his wife. Yeah, that's exactly what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do. So if you work out and you're
Speaker 1: having a problem at the gym, LOOKI lou, Oh, what
Speaker 1: do you do? Spend one thousand dollars and get a
Speaker 1: Marcie Diamond Elite. It's got all the cables and everything
Speaker 1: you can do squats. It costs one thousand dollars. Would
Speaker 1: you pay a thousand dollars to save your relationship? I would?
Speaker 1: You see what I mean? So, I just think it's
Speaker 1: vastly important for us to know our weaknesses. Okay, And
Speaker 1: if you have an issue with flirting with women, talking
Speaker 1: to women, or talking to men, flirting with men, you
Speaker 1: have to stop because what you're doing is you're giving
Speaker 1: the devil a little wedge and he's just hitting it
Speaker 1: further and further in. When you give him a little wedge,
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit that thing in between your relationship and
Speaker 1: cause a wedge between you and your spouse. And if
Speaker 1: he can hit that wedgend far enough and you keep
Speaker 1: doing these little things, what's gonna happen is those little
Speaker 1: things turn into something and then you start messing up
Speaker 1: on your spouse. And that's why you see divorce rates.
Speaker 2: So high. Okay, Okay, this is called the.
Speaker 1: Clause the oh okay, I think yeah, Matthew nineteen verses
Speaker 1: three through twelve. I can also read that that is
Speaker 1: actually going through the same part. Maybe with a little
Speaker 1: more detail, we could see. Let's see. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read Matthew nineteen verses three through twelve real quick. It
Speaker 1: says the Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him and saying,
Speaker 1: unto him, it is lawful? Is it lawful for a
Speaker 1: man to put away his wife? For every cause? And
Speaker 1: he answered and said, unto them, have you not read?
Speaker 1: Have you not made them at the beginning? Made male
Speaker 1: and female? And said, for this cause shall a man
Speaker 1: leave a father and mother? And she cleaved to his wife?
Speaker 1: Or for no more twain but one flesh? What more
Speaker 1: God hath joined to lot, not let man put us under? Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of pretty similar to what Mark says,
Speaker 1: so I really don't need to read that part. So
Speaker 1: what is sexual immorality in Greek? It's actually poor nia,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the it's where we get the word pornography. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: so sexual immorality is something that we need to stay
Speaker 1: away from. And also males. If you're in the military
Speaker 1: like I was, and you think that when you go
Speaker 1: overseas and that you're depending on pornography or you're depending
Speaker 1: on that, and you think that that's not cheating, well
Speaker 1: that is cheating. Okay, that is cheating. Even Jesus says,
Speaker 1: if you think about another woman, then you have committed
Speaker 1: adult treat. So understand that. Because when I was deployed,
Speaker 1: like in twenty sixteen, and that is two thousand and
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now that was nine years ago, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: so ten years ago. When I was deployed, I my
Speaker 1: mind was not right. It was not right, okay, And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, when what I wanted to bring up you know,
Speaker 1: I think I already brought this up. Yeah I did
Speaker 1: bring that part up. I don't need really go over that.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you guys this, what should a
Speaker 1: biblical marriage look like? Okay, what should it look like?
Speaker 1: We get it right here in a Seasions five twenty
Speaker 1: one through thirty three. And I also want to go
Speaker 1: over something else really quick, hold on, uh one Crinthians
Speaker 1: thirteen four. Sorry, I just wanted to make sure I
Speaker 1: pulled this up and uh one Corinthians thirteen, verse four,
Speaker 1: definitely a good verse. So what should a Christian marriage
Speaker 1: look like? Well, it it happened to be. Paul writes
Speaker 1: this in Ephesians five. My phone is so funny. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's Ephesians five twenty one through thirty three. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have it written in my notes in the NIV, but
Speaker 1: I usually like to go to the King James, but NIV. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's just do it. The new King James what I
Speaker 1: normally read to you guys out of so this is
Speaker 1: the NIV. So if it's different than what you're reading
Speaker 1: your New King James, just you know, just give me
Speaker 1: some slack because I copy and pasted these pretty fairly quickly.
Speaker 1: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Okay,
Speaker 1: submit to one another? Okay, why submit yourselves to your
Speaker 1: own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the
Speaker 1: husbands is the head of the wife, as Christ is
Speaker 1: the head of the Church, his body of which he
Speaker 1: is the savior. So wife, submit to your husband's Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds real easy. But when you have a husband
Speaker 1: that's not loving you like Christ love the Church, then
Speaker 1: it's not easy to submit. But see, we gotta both.
Speaker 1: It takes two to tango. If you want your wife
Speaker 1: to submit to you, you have to love her, and
Speaker 1: you also have to be the head of the home. Okay,
Speaker 1: the spiritual leader of the home, the one that's saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to church, or we're gonna do Bible study,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna listen to the church. Whatever you can do. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works into your home, but
Speaker 1: whatever you could do right for the husband is the
Speaker 1: head of the wife, as Christ is the head of
Speaker 1: the church, his body of which he is the Savior.
Speaker 1: Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives
Speaker 1: should submit to their husbands and everything. Husbands love your wives,
Speaker 1: now listen. If you love your wife, truly love your wife,
Speaker 1: then then it's it's a lot easier. Now, let me
Speaker 1: tell you guys that are young before I get into this. See,
Speaker 1: if you know all this information going into a marriage,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have all these things in your past
Speaker 1: that causes issues that come up because you're gonna already
Speaker 1: be smart and intelligent and you're gonna handle your marriage
Speaker 1: in a loving way, and you're gonna handle it and
Speaker 1: love your wife like Christ love the Church. If you
Speaker 1: know all these verses in your and your saved before
Speaker 1: you get married, then you're gonna know how to treat
Speaker 1: your woman, and then it's gonna be easier for her
Speaker 1: to submit. But when you have all these things in
Speaker 1: your past where you did all these things that were
Speaker 1: rotten and bad to each other, and you've been through
Speaker 1: all these things like me and my wife have been through,
Speaker 1: and probably you guys have been through, and you see,
Speaker 1: it's a little harder for her to trust you as
Speaker 1: a spiritual leader because look at all the things you
Speaker 1: did in the past. See, everybody that I teach to
Speaker 1: has never seen my past, but oh I do. I'm
Speaker 1: honest and upfront about it. But my wife, she's been
Speaker 1: with me for almost seventeen years. She's seen everything from
Speaker 1: the good, from the bad to the good. And now
Speaker 1: obviously she's way happier with me. She loves everything right now.
Speaker 1: But what I would say is, when Paul is talking here,
Speaker 1: he's this is not impossible. These are not impossible tasks.
Speaker 1: This is what Christians, this is how a Christian marriage
Speaker 1: should look. Let's continue. Just as Christ loved the church
Speaker 1: and gave himself up for her to make her holy
Speaker 1: what did he do? He died on the cross for
Speaker 1: us to make us holy. I say that all the
Speaker 1: time with the Book of Leviticus, it's all about being
Speaker 1: set apart to make you holy. Jesus died on the
Speaker 1: cross to make us holy. That's how much he loves us.
Speaker 1: Are you willing to put your life on the line
Speaker 1: for your wife? Now? I'm willing to put my life
Speaker 1: on the line for this country. I was in the
Speaker 1: United States military, all right. I was in the army.
Speaker 1: Am I willing to put my yes right now? Yes?
Speaker 1: And every time your wife gives birth for you, she's
Speaker 1: putting her life on the line every time because she
Speaker 1: loves that child like Christ loves the church. We gotta
Speaker 1: love each other like Christ loved the church. Okay, cleansing
Speaker 1: her by the washing with water through the word, that's
Speaker 1: what you need to do. And to present her to
Speaker 1: himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or
Speaker 1: any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way,
Speaker 1: husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. Okay,
Speaker 1: we sit there, we work out, we do this. We
Speaker 1: oh man, we freaking cut our nails, we get our haircut.
Speaker 1: We shave our beard. We try to look all good. Right.
Speaker 1: Love your wife like you love your own body. He
Speaker 1: who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one
Speaker 1: ever hated their own body. But they feed and care
Speaker 1: for their body as Christ does for the Church, for
Speaker 1: we are members of his body. For this reason, a
Speaker 1: man will leave his father and mother and be united
Speaker 1: to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
Speaker 1: Even Paul's talking about it here, this is a profound mystery.
Speaker 1: But I am talking about Christ and the Church. However,
Speaker 1: each one of you also must love his wife as
Speaker 1: he loves himself, and wife must respect her husband. So
Speaker 1: what he's telling you here is he's us like he's
Speaker 1: using like a metaphor for marriage, and like how Christ
Speaker 1: love the Church. He's putting both of those in together,
Speaker 1: which he's so gracefully speaking, and it's amazing. But I
Speaker 1: just want to tell you guys that, Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: that's my little section on marriage. Hopefully enjoyed it. And
Speaker 1: for all my military people that are listening, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's anybody that's military. If you are, shout
Speaker 1: it out in the Spotify comments and say, hey brother,
Speaker 1: I'm a veteran or whatever dot around the Spotify comments
Speaker 1: or dm me on Instagram. But the Spotify comments is
Speaker 1: good because I see him, I could shout it out
Speaker 1: and you can hear me kind of shout you out
Speaker 1: on here. Let's continue, Mark ten. Ten. In the house,
Speaker 1: his disciples also asked him again about the same matter.
Speaker 1: So he said to them, whoever divorces his wife and
Speaker 1: marries another, commits adultery against her. And if a woman
Speaker 1: divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. So
Speaker 1: they're Jews, right, they're Jewish. So the disciples are like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, Like, what did Moses command you?
Speaker 1: That's what we're supposed to follow the law, right. Jesus
Speaker 1: is like, listen, let me tell you what's really going on. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue, Mark ten, Verse thirteen. Jesus blesses little children.
Speaker 1: Then they brought little children to him that he might
Speaker 1: touch them. But the disciples rebuke those who brought them.
Speaker 1: But when Jesus saw it, he was greatly displeased and
Speaker 1: said to the them, let the little children come to me,
Speaker 1: and do not forbid them, For of such is the
Speaker 1: kingdom of God. Surely I say to you. Whoever does
Speaker 1: not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child
Speaker 1: will by no means enter it. And he took them
Speaker 1: up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and
Speaker 1: blessed them. So what is it like to have childlike faith?
Speaker 1: That's what he's saying, same as kids have examples of
Speaker 1: childlike faith. Matthew nineteen, Jesus welcomes children to him, saying,
Speaker 1: let the little children come to me, and do not
Speaker 1: forbid them. Matthew seventeen. Jesus says, we have faith like
Speaker 1: a mustard seed. We can move mountains. Matthew eighteen Jesus
Speaker 1: says that whoever humbles themselves like a child is the
Speaker 1: greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. And childlike faith is
Speaker 1: a humble, unpreti ventuous faith that trust in God. It's
Speaker 1: characterized by openness, honesty, and joy. It's also a willingness
Speaker 1: to put aside one's will and to learn and grow.
Speaker 1: So taking all your preconceived biases that you've learned from
Speaker 1: the world and setting him aside, and just come in
Speaker 1: like a child. Whenever you read the Bible, come in
Speaker 1: like a child. Because all these theologians and people in
Speaker 1: school and elementary school and high school and college and
Speaker 1: all this worldly things that you learn, and then you
Speaker 1: go to try to read the Bible. That's the world, right,
Speaker 1: It's the Word versus the world. So come to the
Speaker 1: Bible like a child, an innocent child. Come to the Word.
Speaker 1: Come to God with childlike faith. Childlike faith is a
Speaker 1: way of trusting in God, similar to how a child
Speaker 1: trusts their parents, like there's a certain thing like let's
Speaker 1: say I hand my daughter to somebody that they don't know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna data datta. You know, mama, mama, you see,
Speaker 1: because they have a child like faith in their parents.
Speaker 1: They know you, and they love you, they trust you,
Speaker 1: and they have total faith that you're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of them. That's the same kind of faith we need
Speaker 1: to have with God. With man, nothing is possible, but
Speaker 1: with God, all things are possible. Ad meant to that. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's uh okay. So it's a way of receiving God's gift.
Speaker 1: In Christ, kids receive gifts with such joy, right they
Speaker 1: do they they receive they receive gift with such joy. Right,
Speaker 1: So we need to be the same way. We're saved
Speaker 1: by grace through faith, For it is a gift of God,
Speaker 1: not of yourselves, not by works, so that no man
Speaker 1: shall boast. Okay, so kind of the same thing. So
Speaker 1: let's continue. Jesus counsels the rich young ruler. Now he
Speaker 1: is going out on the road. One came running and
Speaker 1: knelt before him and asked him, good teacher, what shall
Speaker 1: I do that I may inherit internal life. So Jesus
Speaker 1: said to him, why do you call me good? No
Speaker 1: one is good, but one that is God. You know
Speaker 1: the commandments. Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do
Speaker 1: not still, do not bear false witness, do not defraud God.
Speaker 1: Honor your father and your mother. And he answered and
Speaker 1: said to him, teacher, all these things I have kept
Speaker 1: from my youth. Then Jesus looked at him, loved him,
Speaker 1: and said to him, one thing you lack, go your way.
Speaker 1: So whatever you have and give to the poor, and
Speaker 1: you will have treasure in heaven. Come take up the
Speaker 1: cross and follow me. But he was sad at this
Speaker 1: word and went away, sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Speaker 1: And just because Jesus lists the commandments, he's not doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that you can make it to heaven by following
Speaker 1: the commandments. Okay, what he was doing, he was noticing
Speaker 1: that this young man came up to him and wanted
Speaker 1: him like he wanted to show him, like, hey, I've
Speaker 1: been following all the commandments, which Jesus knows that he hasn't. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you love your neighbors, you love yourself, then what
Speaker 1: you would do if you see other people struggling, is
Speaker 1: you would sell all those possessions, or sell at least
Speaker 1: some of them. But he's saying to sell all of them,
Speaker 1: sell whatever you have and give to the poor, take
Speaker 1: up the cross, and follow me. So he's like telling
Speaker 1: him to sell all those possessions, like, right, do all
Speaker 1: that right now, and then you can follow me in
Speaker 1: my ministry. Right, become a disciple, he answered, and said him, teacher,
Speaker 1: all these things that I've kept from my youth, which Jesus
Speaker 1: knows that he hasn't. Okay, this guy's coming up to
Speaker 1: Jesus with this saved by works attitude. And also Jesus
Speaker 1: hasn't died on the cross yet, right, So following the
Speaker 1: law is what they did back then. But you know
Speaker 1: they weren't saved by that. Their stays still saved by
Speaker 1: grace and they still had to do sacrifices because nobody
Speaker 1: can follow the law one hundred percent. Real quick, we'll
Speaker 1: look at Romans three, verses nineteen through twenty. Now we
Speaker 1: know that whatever the law says, it says to those
Speaker 1: who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped,
Speaker 1: and all the world may become guilty before God. So
Speaker 1: the law is meant to show you, to make you
Speaker 1: feel or know that you're sinning. Right. Therefore, by the
Speaker 1: deeds of the law, no flesh will be justified in
Speaker 1: his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's giving you knowledge that you're sinning, so
Speaker 1: you know, okay, but it's not saving you. So with
Speaker 1: this guy, yeah, love your neighbor as you as yourself,
Speaker 1: as part of the laws. So Jesus is pointing that
Speaker 1: out to this young man. This is this rich young ruler.
Speaker 1: Let's check this in our real quick cut taste. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see this is uh Philippians three, verses nine through eleven.
Speaker 1: This is something has to do with uh this this portion.
Speaker 1: I think it's this one or the next one. Hold on, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll read it Philippians three, verses nine to eleven and
Speaker 1: be found in him, not having my own righteous which
Speaker 1: is from the law. Yeah, this has to do with
Speaker 1: the law, but that which is through faith in Christ,
Speaker 1: the righteousness which is from God. By faith, that I
Speaker 1: may know Him, and the power of his resurrection and
Speaker 1: the fellowship of his sufferings being conformed to his death.
Speaker 1: It if by any means, I may attain to the
Speaker 1: resurrection from the dead. So that just has to do
Speaker 1: with the law. I just want to bring that up,
Speaker 1: all right, So we're going to be in Mark ten,
Speaker 1: verse twenty three. All with God, all things are possible.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, how
Speaker 1: hard is it for those who have riches to enter
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God? And the disciples were astonished by
Speaker 1: his words. But Jesus answered again and said to them children,
Speaker 1: how hard is it for those who trust in riches
Speaker 1: to enter the Kingdom of God. It is easier for
Speaker 1: a camel to go through the eye of a needle
Speaker 1: than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God God. And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves,
Speaker 1: who then can be saved? But Jesus looked at them
Speaker 1: and said, with men, it is impossible but with God.
Speaker 1: For with God, all things are possible. So let me
Speaker 1: just give you, guys an example of what's what I
Speaker 1: would say, you know, spirits that you could take from this.
Speaker 1: So when let's say, you know me, at this moment
Speaker 1: right now, am I rich? I feel like I'm rich.
Speaker 1: I'm not rich in money, but I'm rich and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in love with my wife. I'm rich. I have
Speaker 1: three kids. That makes me rich. And the main thing
Speaker 1: is I am close to God. That's what makes me
Speaker 1: feel rich inside. You know, it gives me joy, it
Speaker 1: gives me peace. Now, all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: I go and buy a lottery ticket. I went two
Speaker 1: hundred million. So let's say I'm a millionaire. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: you just open up the floodgates for sin to travel
Speaker 1: into your life so much. Do you understand why. Let's
Speaker 1: say you buy yourself a Ferrari, Lamborghini, maybe Porsche, whatever,
Speaker 1: and you just go to get gas and you're in
Speaker 1: a you know whatever, you buy like one of the
Speaker 1: new sports cars. Whatever. You know. Let's say that you're
Speaker 1: just into that. The temptation is gonna be way more.
Speaker 1: The devil's gonna be able to tempt you so much
Speaker 1: more because it'll make people women attract it to you more.
Speaker 1: Or if you're a woman, you know, men attracted to
Speaker 1: you more, and you're open up the floodgates to temptation. Also,
Speaker 1: you're opening up the floodgates the temptation. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that people shouldn't try to become you know, shouldn't
Speaker 1: try to have money or anything like that. All I'm
Speaker 1: doing is giving you, guys a few examples of what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing. You know, what happens is when you have
Speaker 1: earthly possessions and you buy all these things, you know,
Speaker 1: the cars, the houses, and then you know, you got
Speaker 1: the friends coming over. You're trying to keep up with
Speaker 1: the joneses, you know, all that stuff. It's it's hard
Speaker 1: to have room for loving God so much. Not saying
Speaker 1: that every rich person's going to hell or every rich
Speaker 1: person's filled with sin. No, if they've been rich their
Speaker 1: whole entire lives, then it's probably no big deal to them.
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is Jesus is saying this. It's
Speaker 1: easier for a camera to go through the eye of
Speaker 1: a needle than for a rich man to enter the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. You can understand why, because the floodgates
Speaker 1: open when you can buy whatever you want. You could
Speaker 1: travel wherever you want to go. Uh. Some people that
Speaker 1: are that are that are rich. The man is working
Speaker 1: like all the time, uh, business trips all the time.
Speaker 1: The temptation is black God, the devil is blasting them
Speaker 1: with temptation. The woman's at home alone all the time
Speaker 1: because the husband's always working, flying on jets doing all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and the women's at home. The temptation is
Speaker 1: blasting at them at all the time. They're working out
Speaker 1: of the gym. Oh hey, my husband is out of
Speaker 1: town all the time, and oh it starts talking to
Speaker 1: some dude about whatever she's going through. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it just opens up the floodgates. And
Speaker 1: that could happen with poor people too. But what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you is I can kind of see why because
Speaker 1: if I would have became a secular rapper and I
Speaker 1: had millions and millions of dollars and I was on
Speaker 1: tour all the time, dude, the floodgates would open. Cocaine, drugs, women,
Speaker 1: all this stuff all the time, every single and then
Speaker 1: just some people are doing things to become rich that
Speaker 1: are arable. They are stepping on top of people, they're
Speaker 1: toppling over people for them to get to that position.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing. And they're doing it for greed,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh you know what, give me one second,
Speaker 1: I gotta plug this way. Looks like my computer was
Speaker 1: not plugged in. Good thing that didn't go out. So
Speaker 1: now you can understand what I mean. So, is there
Speaker 1: a lot of temptation for people that are poor. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of gang bangers, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are drug addicts. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are that are that are struggling, that are probably
Speaker 1: disliking their situations. So it makes them dislike the Bible
Speaker 1: or maybe dislike God, you know, and whatever because they're
Speaker 1: blaming stuff on God. So yeah, I understand. But Jesus
Speaker 1: is just pointing this out because if you love something
Speaker 1: more than God and they're not putting God first, like
Speaker 1: your money, your riches, your greed, your fame, your job,
Speaker 1: your business, whatever you're putting God on the back burner,
Speaker 1: then you know you're not putting God first. You need
Speaker 1: to put forth the Kingdom of Heaven first, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think that's mostly what he's saying here will continue.
Speaker 1: That's why it's saying with men it is impossible, but
Speaker 1: with God. But for with God. But not with God,
Speaker 1: it says, but not with God. For with God all
Speaker 1: things are possible. Let's continue, Mark ten, verse twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Then Peter began to say to him, see, we have
Speaker 1: left all and followed you. So Peter always does this,
Speaker 1: he always, he does this all the time. I think
Speaker 1: we were talking about it on the last show, where
Speaker 1: Jesus always has to check Peter. My friend was asking me, oh,
Speaker 1: somebody who was asking me about if John was still alive,
Speaker 1: you know, and I had to kind of go through
Speaker 1: that with them, but go good. But I was telling him, yeah,
Speaker 1: Peter always gets checked. And you see Jesus actually checking
Speaker 1: Peter right there, right here. So it says then Peter
Speaker 1: said to him, see, we have left all and followed you. Right.
Speaker 1: So Jesus answered and said, surely, I see to you.
Speaker 1: There's no one who has left house or brothers or sisters,
Speaker 1: or father or mother or wife, or children or lands
Speaker 1: for my sake and the gospels who shall not receive
Speaker 1: one hundred fold now in this time, houses and brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters and mothers and children in lands with persecutions
Speaker 1: and an age to come eternal life. But many who
Speaker 1: are first will be last. And I'll tell you this
Speaker 1: right here, actually is there's a parable in the book
Speaker 1: of Matthew that we went over that kind of explains
Speaker 1: this portion right here. It's the parable of the vineyard
Speaker 1: to you twenty verses one through six. For the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early
Speaker 1: in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now,
Speaker 1: when he had agreed with the laborers for a dinaris
Speaker 1: a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he
Speaker 1: went out about the third hour and saw others standing
Speaker 1: idle in the marketplace, and said to them, you also
Speaker 1: go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will
Speaker 1: give you. So they went again. He went out about
Speaker 1: the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise. And about
Speaker 1: the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle,
Speaker 1: and said to them, why have you been standing idle
Speaker 1: all day? They said to him, because no one hired us.
Speaker 1: He said to them, you also go into the vineyard,
Speaker 1: and whatever is right you will receive. So, when evening
Speaker 1: had come, the owner of the vineyard said to a steward,
Speaker 1: call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with
Speaker 1: the last to the first. And when those came who
Speaker 1: were hired about the eleventh, they each received a dinaris.
Speaker 1: But when the first came, they supposed that they would
Speaker 1: receive more, and they likewise received each a dinars. And
Speaker 1: when they had received it, they complained against the landowners, saying,
Speaker 1: these last men have worked only one hour, and he
Speaker 1: made them equal to us. We have borne the burden
Speaker 1: and the heat of all day. He answered one of
Speaker 1: them and said, friend, I am doing you no wrong.
Speaker 1: Did you not agree with me for a dinaris? Take
Speaker 1: what is yours and go your way. I wish I
Speaker 1: give you. I wish to give to this last man,
Speaker 1: the same as to you. Is it not lawful for
Speaker 1: me to do what I wish with my own things?
Speaker 1: Or is it? Or is your eye evil? Because I
Speaker 1: am good? So the last will be first and the
Speaker 1: first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.
Speaker 1: So that's the part it says, for you know us,
Speaker 1: so the last will be first and the first will
Speaker 1: be last. I noticed that he said that here, So
Speaker 1: I kind of connected these two dots. So That's an
Speaker 1: example of somebody that at eighteen has been following the
Speaker 1: Lord their whole entire life, you know, doing all these
Speaker 1: works and everything they could do. And you know that
Speaker 1: they believe Jesus. They believe that, you know one Corinthians fifteen,
Speaker 1: Verses one through four. They believe Jesus died on the
Speaker 1: cross rose again. They have faith in Jesus, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know they go their whole entire lives and
Speaker 1: then what do they do. They end up in the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven, right, and then somebody is on their deathbed,
Speaker 1: a murderer whatever and or whatever. Like let's say a
Speaker 1: prisoner in jail, like lived his whole life on skid row,
Speaker 1: doing drugs, hero in, uh, doing all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: And then you know, he ends up in prison. He's
Speaker 1: in his seventies, he's you know, he's gonna die in
Speaker 1: prison because he's spending life and murder or life in
Speaker 1: prison or something. It's just an example of all to see.
Speaker 1: But and then you know he's going to pass away
Speaker 1: soon and he gets saved by the Lord. He gets
Speaker 1: saved and he ends up you know, uh, loving God.
Speaker 1: Believe in Corinthians verse Corinthians fifteen, verses one through four. Uh,
Speaker 1: called out to the name of Jesus, believes John three
Speaker 1: point sixteen. He has faith in the Lord, faith in Jesus,
Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff, right, and then he ends
Speaker 1: up dying, you know, three weeks later he ends up
Speaker 1: in heaven. So the first will be last, the last
Speaker 1: will be first. So and then you end up in
Speaker 1: heaven with this person. And you're like, Charlie, I can't
Speaker 1: believe you made it. Charlie. I spend my whole life
Speaker 1: praise to the Lord, doing to spend the Gospel, doing
Speaker 1: all going to all these different events and conferences and
Speaker 1: this and that, and I did all this stuff for God.
Speaker 1: And you're here too. I thought I didn't even I
Speaker 1: would ever even thought did you go to prison? You see,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be people in heaven that we will just
Speaker 1: be so surprised to see. But it all is up
Speaker 1: to God. You see. That's why he says, this is
Speaker 1: my stuff. I could do what I want with this
Speaker 1: because it's mine, not mine, but you know it's his,
Speaker 1: It's God. So he is the owner of the vineyard.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what's happening in this. Uh. This is
Speaker 1: just a powerful thing to know. Now, do you want
Speaker 1: to be that person that's last and then die before
Speaker 1: you never know? Especially right now? Man, there's man, it's
Speaker 1: very tough because you don't want to just be waiting
Speaker 1: and waiting and waiting to get saved. And you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to keep partying. I want to keep this,
Speaker 1: I want to keep the women, I want to keep this,
Speaker 1: and then whatever. I don't want to keep doing that
Speaker 1: and then you die before you get saved or something.
Speaker 1: You know, it's definitely not what Jesus is trying to
Speaker 1: say here. He's just saying that exactly what I explained,
Speaker 1: you know. So let's continue Mark ten, verse thirty two.
Speaker 1: Now they were on the road going to Jerusalem, and
Speaker 1: Jesus was going before them, and they were amazed. As
Speaker 1: they followed, they were afraid. Then he took the twelve
Speaker 1: aside again and began to tell them the things that
Speaker 1: would happen to him. And if you notice, Jesus is
Speaker 1: walking ahead of them. They're on the road going to Jerusalem, right,
Speaker 1: so they're walking a little slower. Jesus is walking ahead.
Speaker 1: Jesus was going before them. They were amazed, and as
Speaker 1: they followed him, they were afraid, and he took the
Speaker 1: twelve a side and began to tell them the things
Speaker 1: that would happen to him. Behold, we are going up
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, and the son of Man will be betrayed
Speaker 1: to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they
Speaker 1: will condemn him to death and deliver him to the gentiles.
Speaker 1: They will mock him and scoorge him, and spit on
Speaker 1: him and kill him. And on the third day he
Speaker 1: will rise again. Praise God that he rose again. Right,
Speaker 1: that's it. It all depends on him rising again that way.
Speaker 1: That's how you know. Jesus is who he says he was.
Speaker 1: Ah greatness is serving. Then James and John, the sons
Speaker 1: of Zebedee, came to him and saying, Teacher, we want
Speaker 1: you to do for us whatever we We want you
Speaker 1: to do for us, whatever we ask. And he said
Speaker 1: to them, what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 1: And they said to him, grant us that we may
Speaker 1: sit one on your right hand and the other on
Speaker 1: your left, in your in your glory. But Jesus said
Speaker 1: to them, you do not know what you ask. Are
Speaker 1: you able to drink the cup that I drink and
Speaker 1: be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with
Speaker 1: they said, we are able, just just nonchalant. Right. Also,
Speaker 1: they think that Jesus is going to have a heavenly
Speaker 1: kingdom and they're going to be able to reign with him.
Speaker 1: What they don't understand He's having a heavenly kingdom and
Speaker 1: they're not worthy to be on the right hand of him.
Speaker 1: Jesus is God in the flesh. They don't, they don't,
Speaker 1: they don't get that. I think Thomas gets it when
Speaker 1: Jesus is resurrected and he says, my Lord, my God.
Speaker 1: I think he gets it. I think they start kind
Speaker 1: of getting it, you know, especially when he resurrects. They're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: Especially when he comes back and then there's people coming
Speaker 1: out of the graves and in appearing to them. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's I'm just saying. They're not understanding though, granteds that
Speaker 1: we may sit one on your right hand the other
Speaker 1: on your left in your glory. That's what they're looking for.
Speaker 1: They want his glory. They want that. Jesus saying, you
Speaker 1: don't know what you asked, Like, do you want to
Speaker 1: go and get crucified for everybody's sins? Do you want
Speaker 1: all that, No, you ain't ready to drink from this cup.
Speaker 1: And he knows what he's up to, and he just
Speaker 1: got done explained, and then what's gonna happen to him?
Speaker 1: And they're over here asking him that, and then Jesus
Speaker 1: then they said to him, we are able. Let's go
Speaker 1: to we'll continue in verse thirty nine, Mark ten, Verse
Speaker 1: thirty nine. So Jesus said to them, you will indeed
Speaker 1: drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism
Speaker 1: I am baptized. With you will be baptized. But to
Speaker 1: sit on my right hand and on my left is
Speaker 1: not mine to give, but it is for those for
Speaker 1: whom it is prepared. I would say that God the
Speaker 1: Father would choose that right. So it seems like. And
Speaker 1: when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly
Speaker 1: displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to
Speaker 1: himself and said, you know that those who are considered
Speaker 1: rulers over the gentiles lord over it. Those who are
Speaker 1: considered rulers over the gentiles lord it over them. And
Speaker 1: they're great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall
Speaker 1: not be so among you. But whoever decides to become
Speaker 1: great among you, shall be your servant. Whoever you desire
Speaker 1: to be the first, shall be a slave of all.
Speaker 1: For even the son of Man did not come to
Speaker 1: be served, but to serve and to give his life
Speaker 1: a ransom for many. So they want to be great
Speaker 1: on earth. They want to be great, they want glory.
Speaker 1: But Jesus is saying that, for even the son of
Speaker 1: Man did not come to be served, but to serve
Speaker 1: and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Speaker 1: So they're not understanding what Jesus is just twoing here.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not here to have a kingdom on earth.
Speaker 1: This doesn't matter to me. It's the kingdom in heaven.
Speaker 1: And they're not understanding that spiritual aspect of it. And
Speaker 1: Jesus is here to be a servant, not a king
Speaker 1: ruling on a throne on earth. But yeah, he's the
Speaker 1: king of king, lord of lords in heaven, yes, but
Speaker 1: not an earthly kingdom like they think. And in Matthew,
Speaker 1: the mom gets involved and starts asking them, asking Jesus,
Speaker 1: Jesus healed blind bartimaas Now this is going to be
Speaker 1: Mark ten, verse forty six. Now they came to Jericho
Speaker 1: as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and
Speaker 1: a great multitude. Blind Bartimaas, the son of tamuse Temius,
Speaker 1: not tamuz Temius, sat by the road begging, and when
Speaker 1: he heard that it was Jesus and Nazareth, began to
Speaker 1: cry out, saying, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: Then many warned him to be quiet, but he cried
Speaker 1: out all the more, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called.
Speaker 1: And then they called the blind man, saying to him,
Speaker 1: be of good cheer. Rise he is calling you, and
Speaker 1: throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus.
Speaker 1: So Jesus answered and said to him, what do you
Speaker 1: want me to do for you. The blind man said, Raboni,
Speaker 1: that I may receive my sight. And Jesus said to him,
Speaker 1: go your way. Your faith has made you well. And
Speaker 1: immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.
Speaker 1: So you could imagine somebody that's been blind their whole life,
Speaker 1: and Jesus comes and and he says, your faith made
Speaker 1: you well, and immediately his sight received his sight. Man,
Speaker 1: So it's so powerful right. I mean, that's powerful, that's
Speaker 1: that's amazing. So let's go to Mark eleven and let
Speaker 1: me go to my notes. So this is the Triumphal entry,
Speaker 1: is what it's what the title is. So now, when
Speaker 1: they drew near Jerusalem to Bethage and Bethany at the
Speaker 1: Mount of Olives, he said two of his disciples, and
Speaker 1: he said to them, go into the village opposite you,
Speaker 1: and as soon as you have entered it, you will
Speaker 1: find a cult tide on which no one has sat.
Speaker 1: Loose it and bring it. And if anyone says to you,
Speaker 1: why are you doing this, say the Lord has need
Speaker 1: of it, and immediately he will send it here. So
Speaker 1: just so you know, I will stop there real quick.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back at verse four when I come back.
Speaker 1: But let's go to our notes real quick. So coming
Speaker 1: on a donkey, right, So donkey means that he's coming
Speaker 1: in peace. Riding a horse when they come into town
Speaker 1: is more like someone's coming for a war or you know,
Speaker 1: for problems. So Jesus on a colt. Okay, a colt
Speaker 1: can be a donkey. A colt can be a young
Speaker 1: male donkey that is under four years old. The term
Speaker 1: cl can also refer to a young male horse, pony
Speaker 1: or mule. Excuse me, just so you know, Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: what I think is fascinating is that when he comes
Speaker 1: into town with this triumphal entry, he's riding a donkey. Right.
Speaker 1: But when he comes back in Revelation nineteen verses eleven
Speaker 1: through sixteen, what does he come on? Let's read it now.
Speaker 1: I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. He's
Speaker 1: coming on a white horse, right, not a donkey next time.
Speaker 1: And he's he who sat on him, which capital H
Speaker 1: is going to be Jesus right, who sat on him
Speaker 1: was called faithful and true, and in his righteousness he
Speaker 1: judges and makes war. You understand. You see that the
Speaker 1: difference here, You see that he's making war. He's coming
Speaker 1: on a horse. But back then on the triumple and
Speaker 1: mark eleven, he's going to be coming in on a donkey.
Speaker 1: He's coming in peace, he's a servant. But when he
Speaker 1: comes in Revelation, he's going to be on a pale
Speaker 1: white horse, and he's ready for what he's ready to judge,
Speaker 1: make war. Let's go back to Revelation nineteen eleven through sixteen.
Speaker 1: His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on
Speaker 1: his head were many crowns. He had a name written
Speaker 1: that no one knew except himself. He has clothed with
Speaker 1: the robe dipped in blood. His name is called the
Speaker 1: Word of God. Okay that his name is called the
Speaker 1: Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed and
Speaker 1: fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.
Speaker 1: He's ready for war. He's ready to judge. Now out
Speaker 1: of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it
Speaker 1: he should strike the nations, and he himself with rule
Speaker 1: with a rod of iron. He himself threatned, treads the
Speaker 1: wine press of the fierceness and wrath of almighty God.
Speaker 1: He has his robe and on his thigh a name
Speaker 1: written King of kings and Lord of lords. The whole
Speaker 1: point of me reading that to you is when he
Speaker 1: comes into the city as the Messiah, the Christ, he's
Speaker 1: coming in peace, right, But when he comes back, he's
Speaker 1: riding a horse. So just want to let you guys
Speaker 1: know that andem and this whole prophecy about him coming
Speaker 1: in on a donkey, it's been prophesied in Zachariah nine,
Speaker 1: verses nine through ten. Let's read that real quick Rejoice greatly, O,
Speaker 1: daughter of Zion, Shout, O, daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your
Speaker 1: king is coming to you. He is just and having
Speaker 1: salvation lowly, and riding on a donkey, a colt, and
Speaker 1: a foul of a donkey. I will cut off the
Speaker 1: chariot from Ephrium and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle
Speaker 1: boat shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to
Speaker 1: the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea,
Speaker 1: and from river to the ends of the earth. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue with Mark four. But that's that's a great
Speaker 1: prophecy of Jesus coming riding on a donkey right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's continue Mark eleven, verse four. So they went
Speaker 1: their way and found the colt tied to the door
Speaker 1: outside on the street, and they loosened it. But some
Speaker 1: of those who stood there said to them, what are
Speaker 1: you doing loosening the colt? And they spoke to them
Speaker 1: as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go, and
Speaker 1: they brought the cult to Jesus and threw their clothes
Speaker 1: on it, and he sat on it, and many spread
Speaker 1: their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy
Speaker 1: branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
Speaker 1: Then those who went before and those who follow cried out, saying,
Speaker 1: Hosannah blessed is he who comes in the name of
Speaker 1: the Lord Blessed is the kingdom of our father David,
Speaker 1: that comes in the name of the Lord Hosannah in
Speaker 1: the highest Hosannah, son of David. They were calling him
Speaker 1: the Messiah, and Jesus didn't correct them. Often Jesus would
Speaker 1: quiet those that were claiming that he was the Messiah before,
Speaker 1: you know, because what happened is the demons, right They
Speaker 1: like when he would cast out demons, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: Son of God, what do you want with me? And
Speaker 1: he would say, sh quiet, It wasn't time for it
Speaker 1: to be revealed. But this is the revealing right here
Speaker 1: of Jesus, you know, okay, with people saying that he's
Speaker 1: the Messiah, you know, that's what's happening. And this event
Speaker 1: was actually prophesied Jesus writing coming on at a donkey
Speaker 1: and and all this, this whole part right here is
Speaker 1: actually prophesied in the Book of Daniels six hundred years
Speaker 1: before this event. Daniel prophesied about this event. And this
Speaker 1: actually if you take and you you do, let's say
Speaker 1: you do you go on the calendar and you there's
Speaker 1: people that are way smarter than me that have done this,
Speaker 1: you know, And they counted up the exact time and everything,
Speaker 1: and it came to thirty two AD, which is exactly
Speaker 1: this moment. And this is Daniel nine twenty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is the prophecy six hundred years before
Speaker 1: this event actually happened. And it is it says, know
Speaker 1: therefore and understand that going that from the going forth
Speaker 1: of the command to restore the and build Jerusalem until
Speaker 1: Messiah the Prince, there shall be seventy weeks and sixty
Speaker 1: two weeks, seven weeks and sixty two weeks the streets
Speaker 1: shall be built again the wall, even in troublesome times.
Speaker 1: So this is a prophecy of Jesus of this right here,
Speaker 1: you know. And what I'd say is the seven the
Speaker 1: seven weeks and sixty two weeks that's actually going to
Speaker 1: be converted to years. And there is a depending on
Speaker 1: your eschatology, whether there's sixty nine weeks and then that
Speaker 1: one week is going to be you know, the seven
Speaker 1: year tribulation just depends on our eschatology. But just want
Speaker 1: to let you guys know that okay, And uh so
Speaker 1: it says, let's see where this is, because this is
Speaker 1: quoted from somewhere Blessed John three third. I wanted to
Speaker 1: see if so that's Mark eleven nine through ten, which
Speaker 1: we read, where is it coming from? Is it in
Speaker 1: the I just want to check this out, Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: Hosanna bless us he who comes in the name of
Speaker 1: the Lord, We jose a greatly daughter of Zion. Shout o,
Speaker 1: daughter of Jows, and behold your king is coming to Okay,
Speaker 1: writing a donkey, we already kind have talked about that.
Speaker 1: That's what Sunday is. To reflect the palms on your
Speaker 1: preprayed hearts will do, Okay, all right, I just want
Speaker 1: to go over that, Okay. So what they're saying here
Speaker 1: is that he is the Messiah. Okay, that he is
Speaker 1: the Christ, and he's okay with it. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: the religious leaders were going getting furious at this. Okay,
Speaker 1: my dogs are barking in the background. Hey, Aaron, what's up, brother?
Speaker 1: See that's the dogs. H and Jesus. Okay, we'll go
Speaker 1: back to Mark eleven eleven, and Jesus went into Jerusalem
Speaker 1: and into the temple. So when he had looked around
Speaker 1: at all the things. As the hour was already late,
Speaker 1: he went out to Bethany with the twelve the fig
Speaker 1: tree withered. Now the next this is going to be
Speaker 1: Mark eleven, verse twelve. Now the next day, when they
Speaker 1: had come out from Bethany, he was hungry and seeing
Speaker 1: from afar a fake tree having leaves, he went to
Speaker 1: see it, perhaps he would find something on it. When
Speaker 1: he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for
Speaker 1: it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus.
Speaker 1: In response, Jesus said, let no one eat fruit from
Speaker 1: you ever again. And his disciples heard it. So he
Speaker 1: found nothing but leaves, for it is not the season
Speaker 1: for figs. And response Jesus said, let no one eat
Speaker 1: fruit from you ever again, and his disciples heard it. Wow.
Speaker 1: On the next day he went and came out to
Speaker 1: beth and he was hungry and seeing it from far
Speaker 1: at fig tree having leaves, he went to see perhaps
Speaker 1: he would find something on it. When he came to it,
Speaker 1: he found nothing. Believes, I'm not sure what's happening here,
Speaker 1: but maybe Jesus was expecting fruit there and then saying
Speaker 1: that no one will eat fruit from you ever again,
Speaker 1: maybe he has the obviously he has the power to
Speaker 1: control whether the fruits come or not. It's very just
Speaker 1: interesting passes there. Then Mark put in there, Jesus cleanses
Speaker 1: the temple. Let's go ahead and read this. This is
Speaker 1: a kind of fascinating. And some people wouldn't expect this
Speaker 1: type of behavior from Jesus, right. They would say that
Speaker 1: Jesus is only filled with love, and that he is
Speaker 1: different than the God of the Old Testament. Some people
Speaker 1: try to say, but we'll see what happens when you
Speaker 1: disrespect a place of prayer. So Jesus cleanses the temple.
Speaker 1: So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus, this is going
Speaker 1: to be Mark eleven fifteen. So they came to Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: and Jesus went into the temple and began to drive
Speaker 1: out those who bought and sold in the temple, and
Speaker 1: over turned the tables of the money changers and the
Speaker 1: seats of those who sold doves. And he would not
Speaker 1: allow anyone to carry where's through the temple. And then
Speaker 1: he taught, saying to them, is it not written my
Speaker 1: house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,
Speaker 1: But you have made it a den of thieves, and
Speaker 1: the scribes and the chief priests heard it and sought
Speaker 1: how they might destroy him, for they feared him because
Speaker 1: all the people were astonished at his teachings. When evening
Speaker 1: had come, he went out of the city. So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and see what's going on here. So so
Speaker 1: what's happening here? Then Jesus went into the temple and
Speaker 1: began to drive out those who bought and sold in
Speaker 1: the temple, and overturned the tables of money changers and
Speaker 1: the seats of those who sold doves. It says, my
Speaker 1: house shall not be called the house shall be called
Speaker 1: the House of Prayer for all nations. But you have
Speaker 1: made it a dentity. So what was happening is right
Speaker 1: in front of the temple, they made it like some
Speaker 1: kind of marketplace, okay. And what that portion was for
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a house of prayer. It was
Speaker 1: supposed to be where the gentiles came. And that's why
Speaker 1: it says the House of Prayer for all nations. And
Speaker 1: what was happening is the gentiles would come from far away,
Speaker 1: and they would not want to bring an animal all
Speaker 1: that way, so they would come and they would purchase
Speaker 1: an animal and they would take it into the temple
Speaker 1: and these priests were saying, oh, there's a blemish on
Speaker 1: this one, you need to buy another one. They would
Speaker 1: go and buy another one. And it says the money changers.
Speaker 1: The reason why it says that is because these people
Speaker 1: would be coming with money from like, you know, another country,
Speaker 1: and then they would have to exchange the money into
Speaker 1: temple money. So that's what was happening there. So that's
Speaker 1: what that The priests were basically saying, there's a blemish
Speaker 1: on this lamb, I need you to buy another one.
Speaker 1: They would have to buy another one. There was money exchanging.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of thievery happening, and a lot
Speaker 1: of things that Jesus was not happy with. And Jesus knows.
Speaker 1: Jesus understands what's happening, and he can see your heart
Speaker 1: and he noticed that they were doing wrong. And he's saying,
Speaker 1: is it not written my how house shall be called
Speaker 1: a house of prayer for all nations? But you have
Speaker 1: made it a den of thieves. Okay, he's calling them out.
Speaker 1: And it says that he overturned the tables, which means
Speaker 1: he is upset flipping the tables Joel Oldstein. You see
Speaker 1: a lot of you other prosperity gospel pastors. Hey, you
Speaker 1: see like it's the prayer or that the church is
Speaker 1: not meant for you to become financially wealthy. And you know,
Speaker 1: you guys got to understand that. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here talk about that, but
Speaker 1: this is really reminds me of this part. Pastors like that,
Speaker 1: Let's continue the lesson of the withered fig tree. So
Speaker 1: now we actually get that part explained because I didn't
Speaker 1: understand what was happening there. Now in the morning, as
Speaker 1: they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up
Speaker 1: from its roots, and Peter remembering him, saying, Rabbi, look
Speaker 1: the fig tree which you cursed, is withered away. So
Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to them have faith in God.
Speaker 1: For as surely I say to you, whoever says to
Speaker 1: this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea.
Speaker 1: And it does not doubt, and does not doubt in
Speaker 1: his heart, but believes those things he says will be
Speaker 1: says will be done. He will have whatever he says. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,
Speaker 1: believe when you receive them, and you will have them.
Speaker 1: So obviously this passage is Jesus speaking to his disciples
Speaker 1: first of all, right, but it does say, I say
Speaker 1: to you, whoever says to this mountain. So if we
Speaker 1: had true faith like Jesus has, why he's living on earth.
Speaker 1: Obviously he came from the Father. He knows for a
Speaker 1: fact that God is real, so his faith is. And
Speaker 1: plus he is God in the flesh. So obviously his
Speaker 1: faith as a man is going to be better than
Speaker 1: everybody on earth. So if he says, mountain move, it's
Speaker 1: gonna move. But see it says, but does not doubt
Speaker 1: in his heart. See, we could say things and then
Speaker 1: we doubt it. We could say things that we have
Speaker 1: faith and we actually doubt it. We can ask for
Speaker 1: things in Jesus's name and we doubt it. We have
Speaker 1: this little doubt in our hearts, and the devil will
Speaker 1: expose that to you, and that doubt will turn into
Speaker 1: bigger doubt. And you know, it's it's just, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But so is it that you anything?
Speaker 1: You want anything? Well? First John fifteen fourteen through fifteen.
Speaker 1: Our First John five fourteen through fifteen kind of expounds
Speaker 1: on this. Now, this is the confidence that we have
Speaker 1: in him that if we ask anything according to his will,
Speaker 1: he hears us. And if we know that he hears
Speaker 1: us whatever we ask, we know that we have the
Speaker 1: petitions that we have asked of him. So yes, we
Speaker 1: will receive them and will have them. But according to John,
Speaker 1: it's according to his will, God's will. Okay, So good
Speaker 1: thing that anything you ask for God doesn't give you,
Speaker 1: because if then I might be dead, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: women in the past that I've dated probably pray, messed ump,
Speaker 1: screwed them over, and they probably want to be dead.
Speaker 1: So let's say they prayed, or I wish him to
Speaker 1: be dead, Oh, just dead, you know whatever. So you
Speaker 1: know it's clarified later that it's whatever. You know, it
Speaker 1: asks me God's will, right, And Jesus even says in
Speaker 1: his prayer that your will be done, speaking to God
Speaker 1: the Father. Right. If it's not in the will of God,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. Right, So it's even saying that
Speaker 1: here in one John fifteen or five, fourteenth through fifteen.
Speaker 1: Now let's continue. That's good. We might be able to finish. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go Mark eleven, verse twenty five, and
Speaker 1: whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,
Speaker 1: forgive him or her. Okay, I'm adding that it says
Speaker 1: forgive him that your father in heaven may also forgive
Speaker 1: you your trustpass. But if you do not forgive, neither
Speaker 1: will your father in heaven forgive your trustpasses. So what
Speaker 1: does that mean? Does that mean that if you don't
Speaker 1: forgive your brother that you're going to hell? No, Like,
Speaker 1: our relationship with God is not based on you know,
Speaker 1: one time events that we do and then we're like
Speaker 1: unsaved and then we have to get resaved. No, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing as like me and my wife, Like
Speaker 1: if I do something wrong to her, she doesn't divorce
Speaker 1: me right away. No, if I do something wrong to
Speaker 1: her then then i'm I'm she Obviously I have to
Speaker 1: go and apologize to her and then we make up.
Speaker 1: But we don't. You know, God is not like you
Speaker 1: do something wrong to him. You sin, and then God
Speaker 1: is like boom, You're done, and then you have to
Speaker 1: like do these works to join his trust again. But
Speaker 1: you know, your walk with God's going to be little sideways.
Speaker 1: Your prayer life's gonna be sideways. There's gonna be the
Speaker 1: things sideways when you sin against God, because it separates
Speaker 1: you from God when you're not only it separates you
Speaker 1: from God. Right. But whenever you stand praying, if you
Speaker 1: have anything against anyone, forgive him. Right. So, what Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying here is, how do you expect God to
Speaker 1: forgive you if you can't even forgive your brother that's
Speaker 1: on a physical level, like spiritually, how you're supposed to
Speaker 1: get forgiven if you can't even forgive your brother or sister, right, right,
Speaker 1: and your truspasses what I thought I think would be
Speaker 1: like sin against him? Right? And what is this? This
Speaker 1: is just straight knowledge on how we should live. Jesus
Speaker 1: is just telling you just to take away all the
Speaker 1: bad roots in your heart and all the all the
Speaker 1: thorns and all all that stuff, all that vinegar, get
Speaker 1: it out of you. Forgive. We always ask God, you know,
Speaker 1: we come to God like probably God, in the name
Speaker 1: of Jesus, please forgive me for my sins in the past,
Speaker 1: the future, the present. Bring him in the deepest part
Speaker 1: of the ocean. Please forgive me. But then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, someone you know that you didn't like in
Speaker 1: the past wherever your haven't forgave them yet and you're
Speaker 1: still holding a grudge. Just let it go. Let it go.
Speaker 1: Something that your mom did to you a long time,
Speaker 1: Let it go, something that your dad did. Let it go,
Speaker 1: something that someone did to you, and just let it go.
Speaker 1: Forgive them, Let God handle it. Take all that and
Speaker 1: put it on the altar, and say, God, you handle it,
Speaker 1: because I cannot bear this. I forgive them. Please take
Speaker 1: all these things that have done to me, and you
Speaker 1: take it. He is there to receive that stuff and
Speaker 1: toss it out. You can never change the past, but
Speaker 1: you can change your future, Okay, So Mark eleven, verse
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Jesus's authority is questioned. Then they came to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking
Speaker 1: in the temple, the chief priest describes, the elders came
Speaker 1: to him, and they said to him, by what authority
Speaker 1: are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority
Speaker 1: to do these things? But Jesus answered and said to them,
Speaker 1: I also ask you that one I also will ask
Speaker 1: you one question. Then answer me, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you by what authority I do these things. The Baptism
Speaker 1: of John, Was it from heaven or from then? Answer me?
Speaker 1: And they reason among themselves, saying, if we say from heaven,
Speaker 1: we will say when, then when then do you not
Speaker 1: believe him? But if we say from men? They feared
Speaker 1: the people, we're all counted John to have been a prophet. Indeed,
Speaker 1: for they answered Jesus and said, we do not know.
Speaker 1: And Jesus answered and said to them, neither will I
Speaker 1: tell you by what authority I do these things. See,
Speaker 1: these Pharisees were concentrating on people. They wanted to impress
Speaker 1: the people. They didn't want to impress God in the flesh,
Speaker 1: their Messiah, who's standing right in front of them, you see.
Speaker 1: You see they didn't want to cause an uproar because
Speaker 1: all the people were thought that John was a prophet.
Speaker 1: You see, they're trying to impress the people, and when
Speaker 1: they're trying to put Jesus in a corner. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: trying to corner him, But Jesus always has the perfect
Speaker 1: answers to their questions because he knows before they're even
Speaker 1: going to ask it, and he doesn't they don't have
Speaker 1: a right to ask him that question. Anyways. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think we have about twenty minutes. Okay, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a good uh. We could probably get through Mark twelve.
Speaker 1: The Parable of the Wicked buying Dressers. This is different
Speaker 1: than the one that that I read earlier from Matthew. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a wicked buying dressers. Then he began to
Speaker 1: speak to them in parables. A man planeted a vineyard
Speaker 1: and set ahead around it, dug a place for the
Speaker 1: wine that built the tower. Then he leased it to
Speaker 1: buying dressers and went into a far country. Now at
Speaker 1: vintage time, he sent a servant to the vine dress
Speaker 1: that he might receive some of the fruit of the
Speaker 1: vineyard from the vine dressers. And they took him and
Speaker 1: beat him, and sent him away empty handed. Again he
Speaker 1: sent them another servant, and at him. They threw stones,
Speaker 1: wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
Speaker 1: And again he sent another and him. They killed many others,
Speaker 1: beating some and killing some. Therefore, still having one son,
Speaker 1: his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying,
Speaker 1: they will respect my son. But those vine dressers said
Speaker 1: among themselves, this is the heir. Come let us kill him,
Speaker 1: and the inheritance will be ours. So they took him,
Speaker 1: killed him and cast him out of the vineyard. So
Speaker 1: the parable was talking about the prophets in the beginning. Okay,
Speaker 1: the prophets. God sent these prophets, and they took him
Speaker 1: and beat him. Send them away empty handed, they said.
Speaker 1: And then God sent another prophet, and at him they
Speaker 1: threw stones, wounded in his head. Send them away shamefully
Speaker 1: again another prophet. They killed them, many others, beating them
Speaker 1: and killing some. And then all of a sudden God
Speaker 1: sends his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. Therefore, having one
Speaker 1: son is beloved, which that's what Jesus is. He also
Speaker 1: sent him last, saying they will respect my son. But
Speaker 1: those vine dressers said among themselves, this is the heir. Come,
Speaker 1: let us kill him and the inheritance will be our.
Speaker 1: So they took him and killed him and cast him
Speaker 1: out of the vineyard. You see, they don't get it
Speaker 1: with their hard hearts, and that the Jews didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Why do you think God opened to the gentiles. The
Speaker 1: Jews never got it. They don't get it to this day.
Speaker 1: They don't get that Jesus the Messiah, has already came
Speaker 1: and that he's coming back. They don't get it to
Speaker 1: this day, they think that Jesus was just a man
Speaker 1: that died on the cross and got crucified. That good
Speaker 1: teacher Rabbi the muslims, ah, he's a prophet. He got
Speaker 1: taken up to heaven. He's gonna come back. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not understanding what he is. Jesus has to speak
Speaker 1: in these parables. Therefore, now I'm back to Mark twelve,
Speaker 1: verse nine. Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do?
Speaker 1: He will come and destroy the vine dressers. Watch out,
Speaker 1: israel watch out those that are rejecting God. Watch out
Speaker 1: for those that are that are atheists, and give the
Speaker 1: vineyard to others. Have you not read the scripture? Now
Speaker 1: tell me this, what does that mean? Give the vineyard
Speaker 1: to others. Give it to who gentiles instead of the Israelites?
Speaker 1: Whoa Have you not read this scripture, which is going
Speaker 1: to be Psalms one eighteen twenty two through twenty three.
Speaker 1: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
Speaker 1: This was the Lord's doing and it and it's marvelous
Speaker 1: in our eyes, are amazing in our eyes. It's another
Speaker 1: way to say that that is going to be Psalms
Speaker 1: one eighteen twenty two through twenty three. I'll read it
Speaker 1: to you, guys. The stone which the builder's rejected has
Speaker 1: become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing. It
Speaker 1: is marvelous in our eyes. Okay, the cornerstone really interesting.
Speaker 1: Where have we heard of a cornerstone before? Well? In
Speaker 1: Acts four, verses eleven through twelve, Peter's talking about it.
Speaker 1: He says, this is the stone which was rejected by you, Builthers,
Speaker 1: which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there salvation
Speaker 1: in any other For there is no other name under
Speaker 1: Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the cornerstone. Will continue. This is going to
Speaker 1: be one Peter two verses four through eight. This is
Speaker 1: also talking about Jesus being a cornerstone coming to him.
Speaker 1: This is Peter talking again, Peter coming to him as
Speaker 1: to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen
Speaker 1: by God and precious you. Also as living stones, are
Speaker 1: being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to
Speaker 1: offer up spiritual sacrifice succeptible to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore,
Speaker 1: it is also contained in the scripture. Behold, I lay
Speaker 1: a Zion. In Zion a chief cornerstone elect precious, and
Speaker 1: he who believes on him will by no means be
Speaker 1: put to shame. Therefore, to you who believe he is precious,
Speaker 1: but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the
Speaker 1: builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, and a stone
Speaker 1: of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being
Speaker 1: disobedient to the word to which they were also appointed.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is that chief cornerstone which they rejected. Oops,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I think it had dropped something grabbed that
Speaker 1: really quick. All right, here we go. Now we're at
Speaker 1: Mark twelve versus Verse twelve. Will continue. And they sought
Speaker 1: to lay hands on him, but feared the multitude, for
Speaker 1: they knew he had spoken the parable against them. See
Speaker 1: they knew the Pharisees, the scribes, the statuties. They knew
Speaker 1: that he spoke that against them. And they left him
Speaker 1: and went away. Wow, so that must have enraged them,
Speaker 1: because now he say that he's he's the he's the Messiah.
Speaker 1: He's the one that they're rejecting. And they're seeing that
Speaker 1: he's got quite an audience and quite a following here,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it again. They're trying to impress men
Speaker 1: instead of trying to impress God. See their hearts. Mark twelve,
Speaker 1: verse thirteen. The Pharisees, is it lawful to pay taxes
Speaker 1: to Caesar? Before we start, Let's just you know, at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, in the in the time they
Speaker 1: have been paying taxes for like twenty five years, some
Speaker 1: of them didn't feel it was right to pay taxes.
Speaker 1: Some of them felt like it was okay to pay
Speaker 1: taxes to Rome. Okay. So it was kind of a
Speaker 1: hot topic, one of those topics that they're trying to
Speaker 1: have Jesus slip up right here and cause contention between
Speaker 1: him and those that say not to pay taxes. It's
Speaker 1: like a topic that you know, you stand in a
Speaker 1: place and start talking about something that's like that's offensive
Speaker 1: to some and not, you know, to others. So just
Speaker 1: kind of, like I said, a hot topic, and the
Speaker 1: Pharisees knew that, and they were like, hmm, we got them.
Speaker 1: Let's see what Jesus says, Mark twelve, verse thirteen. Then
Speaker 1: they said to him, some of the Pharisees and Herodians,
Speaker 1: to catch him in his words. When they had come,
Speaker 1: they said to him teacher. We know that you are
Speaker 1: true and care about no one, or you do not
Speaker 1: regard this person of men, but teach the way of
Speaker 1: God in truth. Is it lawful to be taxes to Caesar?
Speaker 1: Or not shall we pay? Or shall we not pay?
Speaker 1: But he, knowing that hypocrisy, said to them, why do
Speaker 1: you test me? Bring me a dinaris that I may
Speaker 1: see it. So they brought it, and he said to them,
Speaker 1: whose image and inscription is this? And they said, Caesars.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said to them, render to Caesar the things
Speaker 1: that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.
Speaker 1: And they marveled at him. They were amazed at him
Speaker 1: because of that answer. But you see, like I said,
Speaker 1: he can. He already knows what to say, and he
Speaker 1: already knows what they're trying to say. He already knows
Speaker 1: what their intentions are. He already knows that they're trying
Speaker 1: to trap him. He already knows the emotions of the Herodians,
Speaker 1: the Pharisees, the ones that don't want to pay taxes.
Speaker 1: He knows. But what he's saying, it's safe for everybody.
Speaker 1: Render to Caesar things that are Caesar's and to God
Speaker 1: the things that are God. See, understand that Rome if
Speaker 1: he starts, if he says not to pay taxes, he
Speaker 1: could cause an uproar, and he could cause him to
Speaker 1: die faster than what then what God would want. Also
Speaker 1: he would be against the Romans, and they would they
Speaker 1: would probably, like I said, snatch him up way faster.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I thought was interesting is we are
Speaker 1: we are actually, you know, obviously in God's image we
Speaker 1: are created. He says, whose image and inscription is this?
Speaker 1: And they said Caesar's and Jesus censors said, rendered caesars
Speaker 1: and things that are Caesars. I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: The saddescees, what about the resurrection is the title of this?
Speaker 1: This is Mark twelve, verse eighteen, that some sadducees who
Speaker 1: say there is no resurrection came to him and they
Speaker 1: asked him saying, Teacher Moses wrote to us that if
Speaker 1: a man's brother dies and leaves his wife behind and
Speaker 1: leaves no children, his brothers should take his wife and
Speaker 1: raise up offspring for his brother. Now that we're seven brothers.
Speaker 1: The first took a wife and dying, he left no offspring,
Speaker 1: and the second took her and he died nor did
Speaker 1: he leave any offspring. And the third likewise, for the
Speaker 1: seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all
Speaker 1: the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection when they arise,
Speaker 1: whose wife will she be? For all seven had her
Speaker 1: as a wife. So they're trying to give him like
Speaker 1: a riddle here obviously a whole bunch of information, and
Speaker 1: the for a regular person. You know, they're trying to
Speaker 1: make it hard to follow along, right, trying to have him,
Speaker 1: like I said, they're trying to have him slip up.
Speaker 1: And probably because he talked about marriage earlier, they're probably
Speaker 1: trying to test him again and try to have him
Speaker 1: slip up and say something wrong. But listen to what
Speaker 1: Jesus says, Mark twelve, verse twenty four. Jesus answered and
Speaker 1: said to them, are you not therefore mistaken? Because you
Speaker 1: do not know the scriptures nor the power of God?
Speaker 1: But when they rise from the dead, they neither marry
Speaker 1: nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Speaker 1: But concerning the dead that they rise, have not read
Speaker 1: in the have you not read in the Book of
Speaker 1: Moses and the Burning Book? But the Burning Bush passage?
Speaker 1: How God spoke to him saying, I am the God
Speaker 1: of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
Speaker 1: He is not the God of the dead, but the
Speaker 1: God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken. So
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty interesting. But he's saying that
Speaker 1: when you're in heaven, your goal is not to get
Speaker 1: married and have children. That's what you do when you're
Speaker 1: on earth. And what he's saying is for when for
Speaker 1: when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor
Speaker 1: are given in marriage, it says, But concerning the dead, right,
Speaker 1: So he's saying that the people that are gonna go
Speaker 1: to heaven, they're not gonna get married and divorce and
Speaker 1: have children and all this stuff. Okay, this is it's
Speaker 1: gonna be different. That's not your goal anymore. But concerning
Speaker 1: the dead, which are the people that are gonna be
Speaker 1: going to hell that they rise and have that they rise?
Speaker 1: Have not have you not read the Book of Moses
Speaker 1: and the Burning Bust passage how God spoke to him saying,
Speaker 1: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
Speaker 1: the God of Jacob. He is not the God of
Speaker 1: the dead, which means the people that are going to
Speaker 1: be in shield or hell. He is not the god
Speaker 1: of anymore after they die, but God of the living,
Speaker 1: which would be us, the body of Christ. You therefore
Speaker 1: greatly mistake. So at this point, the saddesties that are
Speaker 1: asking the question, they're greatly mistaken because they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: be going to hell. So basically, don't even worry about
Speaker 1: it because he's not the God of the dead, meaning
Speaker 1: the people that are not saved. Very interesting, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: continue Mark twelve, verse twenty eight. Then one of the
Speaker 1: scribes came, and, having heard from reasoning together, perceiving that
Speaker 1: he had answered them well, asked him, what is the
Speaker 1: first commandment of all? Jesus answered, the first commandments is
Speaker 1: here Israel, the Lord, our God. The Lord is won.
Speaker 1: And you shall love the Lord your God with all
Speaker 1: your heart, with your soul, with all your mind, with
Speaker 1: all your strength. This is the first commandment, and the
Speaker 1: second life it is you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Speaker 1: There is no other commandment greater than these. Why because
Speaker 1: it covers all basis of the ten commandments. Because some
Speaker 1: of the commandments, like four of them are written to you,
Speaker 1: are about God. I think that's the first four about
Speaker 1: God and then the other six or about man like
Speaker 1: what we do. Right, So that's why it covers all bases. Right.
Speaker 1: If you love your neighbor as yourself, are you gonna steal? Nope?
Speaker 1: If you love your neighbor as yourself, are you gonna
Speaker 1: kill nope? Our murder nope. Are you gonna commit adultery? Nope?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna covet your neighbor nope? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: there's all these things right, And if are you gonna
Speaker 1: honor your mother and father, Yes, because you're gonna love
Speaker 1: them like you love yourself. Okay, So there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in the ten commandments that this is
Speaker 1: covering all bases. Right. If you love the Lord thy
Speaker 1: God with all your soul and your mind, with all
Speaker 1: your strength, then you're gonna follow all the law, all
Speaker 1: the ten commandments. Okay. So that's why those two are
Speaker 1: the greatest of them, because they cover all of the
Speaker 1: commandments Mark twelve, verse thirty two. So the scribe said
Speaker 1: to him, well, teacher, Well said, teacher, you have spoken
Speaker 1: the truth where there is one God and there is
Speaker 1: one other, but no other but He, and to love
Speaker 1: him with all your heart, with all your understanding with
Speaker 1: all your soul, with all your strength, and to love
Speaker 1: one's neighbor as oneself is more than all the whole
Speaker 1: burnt offerings and sacrifices. Now, when Jesus saw they had
Speaker 1: answered wisely, he said to them, you are not afar
Speaker 1: from the Kingdom of God. Right. But after that no
Speaker 1: one dared question him. Smart Jesus, how can David call
Speaker 1: his descendant Lord? Okay? So then Jesus answered and said,
Speaker 1: while he taught in the temple, this is a mark twelve,
Speaker 1: verse thirty five. Then Jesus answered and said, while he
Speaker 1: taught in the temple, how is it that the scribes
Speaker 1: say that the Christ is the son of David? For
Speaker 1: David himself said, by the Holy Spirit, the Lord said
Speaker 1: to my Lord, sit in my right hand till I
Speaker 1: make your enemies your footstool. Therefore David himself calls him Lord.
Speaker 1: Who is who is he? Then? His son? And the
Speaker 1: common people heard him gladly. So if Christ is the
Speaker 1: son of David, then why is he calling him Lord?
Speaker 1: The capital l that's what he's pointing out. The Lord
Speaker 1: said to my Lord, sit in my right hand till
Speaker 1: I make your enemies or footstool, you see. So how
Speaker 1: is he then his son? He's not. He's the son
Speaker 1: of God, not the son of David. And a physical aspect, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: he is. He comes through the line of David. But
Speaker 1: Jesus is always talking about the kingdom of Heaven, talking
Speaker 1: about the spiritual. So he's saying that David calls me Lord,
Speaker 1: who is he then his son? No? Okay, Beware of
Speaker 1: the scribes. A scribe is somebody that copies the scriptures.
Speaker 1: Then he said to them and his teaching, beware of
Speaker 1: the scribes who desire to go around in long robes,
Speaker 1: loved greetings in marketplaces, the best seats in synagogues, and
Speaker 1: the best places at feast, who devour widows houses and
Speaker 1: for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive great condemnation.
Speaker 1: So that what's happening there is there was pharisees and
Speaker 1: scribes that like a woman's husband would die, and then
Speaker 1: they would go in and take this widow's house long prayers,
Speaker 1: like oh, like sitting there praying and praying and praying
Speaker 1: just to just to you know, try to impress men.
Speaker 1: They want the best seats in the synagogue, so they
Speaker 1: walk in with all the scribes, and you know, they
Speaker 1: sit on the best seats. Let's say if they're like
Speaker 1: either higher up, like in like box seats, like you
Speaker 1: know when you go to a Lakers game, Like some
Speaker 1: people are sitting in the box seats, like they're the
Speaker 1: CEOs and other rich people. We're over here, you know,
Speaker 1: sitting in the nosebleed section with their nosebleeding, you know.
Speaker 1: Or there's the rich people sitting in the very front
Speaker 1: seat seat. That's what I think he's describing here. They want, Oh,
Speaker 1: they go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplace.
Speaker 1: So they love it when people go, oh, scribe, how
Speaker 1: are you or whatever, you know, rabbi or whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're called, but they love it to
Speaker 1: receive attention that will receive great condemnation. The Widow's two mites.
Speaker 1: This is Mark twelve, verse forty one. Now Jesus sat
Speaker 1: opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money
Speaker 1: into the treasury treasury, and many who were rich put
Speaker 1: in much. The one poor widow came and threw in
Speaker 1: two mites, which make a quadrants. So we called his
Speaker 1: disciples to himself and said in the Ma, surely I
Speaker 1: say to you that this poor widow has put in
Speaker 1: more than all those who have given to the treasury.
Speaker 1: For they all put in out of their abundance, but
Speaker 1: she put out of poverty all she had, her whole livelihood.
Speaker 1: You see, Jesus is pointing that out. She's poor. She's
Speaker 1: giving with her heart, she's giving with everything she has.
Speaker 1: You know, she's coming out of poverty. These rich people
Speaker 1: they're putting more money in, but they have so much
Speaker 1: of their abundance that it's nothing to them, you know. Interesting. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we finished Matthew twelve. All right, Oh, sorry, we just
Speaker 1: finished Mark twelve. We're going to be doing probably thirteen through.
Speaker 1: Let me see real quick. Oh about taxes. Oops, I
Speaker 1: forgot to do that. About the taxes thing. You know,
Speaker 1: Paul speaks about it in Romans thirteen versus six to seven.
Speaker 1: Before we end, I'll tell you these ones Romans thirteen
Speaker 1: six or seven, for because of this you also pay taxes.
Speaker 1: For they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very
Speaker 1: thing render. Therefore all they're due taxes to whom taxes
Speaker 1: are due, customs to whom customs fear of whom, fear
Speaker 1: honor to whom honor. So what I would say is,
Speaker 1: this is Paul writing to the Romans, right, and he's
Speaker 1: saying to you know, if you don't pay taxes back,
Speaker 1: then you become a slave, or they could kill you,
Speaker 1: or there's a whole bunch of stuff that goes along
Speaker 1: with that. So he's saying, for because of this, you
Speaker 1: may also pay taxes for they are God's ministers attending
Speaker 1: continuity to this very thing, right, So just want to
Speaker 1: let you know that. And yeah, so that's mark twelve.
Speaker 1: That's going to be ending that. I'll stop the screen
Speaker 1: share if you're watching on the video, and we will
Speaker 1: pick up next week. And that's a nice little two
Speaker 1: hour Bible session. Brad Gillis once again, thank you brother.
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Speaker 1: this in prayer. So Father God and the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Lord, and the name of your
Speaker 1: show of the Ashiyak. Thank you, Lord for this beautiful time,
Speaker 1: this glorious time for us to spend reading your word.
Speaker 1: We got to read Mark and we got to just
Speaker 1: enjoy this time. Lord, Thank you for that. Everything we
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Speaker 1: spend doing Bible studies. Thank you for providing me with
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Speaker 1: Thank you for providing me with this this iPad or
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Speaker 1: Thank you for providing us with the lighting that I have.
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Speaker 1: really want to say, anybody that's out there struggling right
Speaker 1: now dealing with any type of hinderance, anything that's hindering
Speaker 1: them right now, anything that's stopping them from reading your word,
Speaker 1: anything that's that's stopping them from from getting closer to You, Lord,
Speaker 1: assist them in their life. Please assist them and break
Speaker 1: those chains that they have that's stopping them. And we
Speaker 1: know that sin separates us from You, So assist people
Speaker 1: in being obedient. Assist myself in being obedient. Lord, please
Speaker 1: help us to be obedient. That way we can walk
Speaker 1: and we could do your will, and we could be
Speaker 1: way more effective for you. So please assist us with that. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for everything you do. We love you in
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Speaker 1: It is now eleven thirty at night. Almost it's eleven twenty,
Speaker 1: and I have work tomorrow. I'm gonna be up tomorrow
Speaker 1: at four fifty, so let's go. But anyways, guys, thank
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