Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, episode sixteen, brought
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Josh Monday.
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Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on Luke fourteen, verse one. A man
Speaker 1: with drops he healed on this sabbath. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: dropsy is actually the same thing today called edema. In
Speaker 1: medical terms, edema refers to swelling caused by an abdominal
Speaker 1: build up and fluid to the body's tissue. The fluid
Speaker 1: can accumulate in various areas, including the legs, the ankles,
Speaker 1: the feet, the face, the hands, and abdominant Aedema can
Speaker 1: be a symptom of various underlying conditions that may require
Speaker 1: medical treatment. And it's also it's painful, Okay, So it's
Speaker 1: it's painful, right, and it's caused and it's swelling. So
Speaker 1: that's what this person was dealing with. And and you know,
Speaker 1: Jesus is back again as we're going to read healing
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. So it already happened before. And sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like these Pharisees are kind of setting him
Speaker 1: up or lining him up to see how he'll react.
Speaker 2: And we see how Jesus does this. Let's see Luke fourteen,
Speaker 2: verse one.
Speaker 1: Now it happened as he went into the house of
Speaker 1: one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath, and they watched him closely, and behold,
Speaker 1: there was a certain man before him who had dropsy,
Speaker 1: and Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and pharisees, saying,
Speaker 1: is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Like I
Speaker 1: told you guys before, the lawyers are the ones that
Speaker 1: studied the law, right, the law of God, not like
Speaker 1: the law of government. And they studied the law, and
Speaker 1: they felt like they knew everything they need to know
Speaker 1: about the law. And not only do they know about
Speaker 1: the law, but they know about tradition, right, And that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're making tradition with the with God's law.
Speaker 1: And he's also talking to the Pharisees, which you know,
Speaker 1: you already know kind of how they believe.
Speaker 2: And uh, this is what he he said.
Speaker 1: But they kept silent as he as he took him
Speaker 1: and healed him and let him go.
Speaker 2: Then he answered them saying, which.
Speaker 1: Of you, having a donkey or an ox or an
Speaker 1: ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately
Speaker 1: pull him out on the Sabbath day? And they could
Speaker 1: not answer him regarding these things. You See, he's the
Speaker 1: Jews put tradition over God's original plan for the Sabbath. See,
Speaker 1: Jesus is simply putting compassion over tradition, and he is
Speaker 1: asking if it's okay, you know, to do good on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath, you know, basically like he's kind of telling him, like,
Speaker 1: if your child fell in the river on the Sabbath,
Speaker 1: are you gonna are you gonna save your child or
Speaker 1: are you gonna say I'm sorry child, it's the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: I can't get you, you know, kind of the same scenario.
Speaker 1: He says, donkey an ox has fallen into a pit. Well, not,
Speaker 1: I merely put them out of this on the Sabbath day.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 1: He's basically showing them that it's compassion over tradition, and
Speaker 1: they weren't really able to answer him. And when it
Speaker 1: came to healing that man, he took him. He healed them,
Speaker 1: and he.
Speaker 2: Let him go.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he just immediately healed them and sent them away.
Speaker 1: And then now the next one is going to be
Speaker 1: the parable of the lowly take to the lowly place.
Speaker 1: So we told this is Luke fourteen, verse seven. So
Speaker 1: we told a parable to those who were invited. Then
Speaker 1: he noted that they chose the best places, saying to them,
Speaker 1: when you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast,
Speaker 1: do not sit down in the best place. Less one
Speaker 1: more honorable than you be invited by him, and he
Speaker 1: who invited you, and him come and say to you,
Speaker 1: give place to this man. Then you begin to shame
Speaker 1: to take the lowest place. But when you are invited,
Speaker 1: go and sit in the lowest place, so that when
Speaker 1: he who invited you comes, he may say to you, friend,
Speaker 1: go up higher.
Speaker 2: Then you will.
Speaker 1: Then you will have glory in the presence of those
Speaker 1: who sit at the table with you, For whoever exalt
Speaker 1: himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will
Speaker 1: be exalted.
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 1: Where you sit was a symbol of importance to them
Speaker 1: back then. And then whoever sits closest to the Let's
Speaker 1: say there's a wedding and there's a bride and groom.
Speaker 1: Whoever sits closest to the bride and groom, if it's
Speaker 1: their wedding, it's a symbol of importance. So Jesus is saying,
Speaker 1: don't go sit next to the bride and groom, Go
Speaker 1: sit at the lowest places, and then the bride and
Speaker 1: groom will come say hey, come sit with me. Then
Speaker 1: you know you're humbling yourself. And then it says, whoever
Speaker 1: exalts himself will be humbled, and he who hums himself
Speaker 1: will be exalted.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So in Proverbs twenty five, verse six through seven, it says,
Speaker 1: do not put yourself forward in the king's present, or
Speaker 1: stand in the place of the great, for it is
Speaker 1: better to be told come up here than to be
Speaker 1: then to be put lower in the presence of a
Speaker 1: noble So humble yourself right. And then Proverbs twenty seven
Speaker 1: too it says, let another praise you, and not your
Speaker 1: own mouth, a stranger, and not your own lips.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So in the parable of the lowly place which we
Speaker 1: just read, the situation or the lowly place found in
Speaker 1: Luke seventeen fourteen seventeen through eleven teaches the humility is
Speaker 1: valued more than self promotion, and God will exalt those
Speaker 1: who humble themselves. It encourages individuals to choose the lowest
Speaker 1: seat at a banquet, not to seat the highest, as
Speaker 1: an honor comes from God, not self exclamation, and the
Speaker 1: situation in Jesus deserves people at a wedding feast choosing
Speaker 1: the best seats, showing the desire for honor and recognition.
Speaker 1: The lesson is, he tells, is a parable to illustrate
Speaker 1: the importance of humility, and then Jesus instructs guests to
Speaker 1: take the lowest seat, not to take the best, which
Speaker 1: I kind of went over. And then the host, who
Speaker 1: can be seen as a representing God or a person
Speaker 1: of authority, will then move the humble guests to a
Speaker 1: more honorable seat, publicizing their humility.
Speaker 2: The act reverses the worldly.
Speaker 1: Order, where those who humble themselves are exalted by God
Speaker 1: and those who seek honor are brought low. And then
Speaker 1: the parable emphasizes the true honor and recognition from God,
Speaker 1: not from self promotion or seeking worldly status. So a
Speaker 1: good example of this would be in Philippians two, verses
Speaker 1: three through eight. It says, do nothing from selfish ambition
Speaker 1: or conceit, but in humility, count others more significant than yourselves.
Speaker 1: Let each of you look only to his own interests,
Speaker 1: but also to the interests of others. Have this mind
Speaker 1: among yourselves, which is yours. In Christ Jesus, who though
Speaker 1: he was in the form of God, did not count
Speaker 1: equality from God a thing to be grasped, but emptied
Speaker 1: himself by taking the form of a servant, being born
Speaker 1: than the likeness of men, and being found in a
Speaker 1: human forum. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the
Speaker 1: point of death, even death on a cross. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we have to humble ourselves, right. We don't want to
Speaker 1: be the one trying to get the glory. We want
Speaker 1: to be humble the point of this, so we'll go
Speaker 1: in and continue. This is going to be Luke fourteen,
Speaker 1: verse twelve. Then he also said to him who invited him,
Speaker 1: when you get a dinner or a supper, do not
Speaker 1: ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, your rich neighbors.
Speaker 1: Less you invite less they also invite you back, and
Speaker 1: you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite
Speaker 1: the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you
Speaker 1: will be blessed because they cannot repay you, or you
Speaker 1: shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's that's very interesting.
Speaker 1: That's that's another lesson in being humble, and he's he's
Speaker 1: talking about the people that you should be taking care of.
Speaker 1: You should be taking care of the poor. You should
Speaker 1: be taking care of the named, You should be taking
Speaker 1: care of the lame, you should be taking care of.
Speaker 2: The blind, and you will be blessed.
Speaker 1: But instead of the way we are in the world
Speaker 1: where we'll invite rich neighbors, your friends, your brothers, your relatives,
Speaker 1: and yeah, so definitely the people that you should be
Speaker 1: taking care of are the poor, the name, the lame,
Speaker 1: the blind, and you will be blessed. Sneak over to
Speaker 1: here real quick. So we have Luke fourteen seven through eleven,
Speaker 1: which we kind of went through. Jesus teaches about humility,
Speaker 1: advising guests to take the lowest place, which you talked about,
Speaker 1: for everyone who exalts and will be humbled, and the
Speaker 1: one who humbles himself will be exalted. The parable emphasize
Speaker 1: the value of humility.
Speaker 2: In God's kingdom.
Speaker 1: Okay, the parable of the Great Okay, so the parable
Speaker 1: of the Great Supper. This is Luke fourteen, verse fifteen. Now,
Speaker 1: when one of those who sat at the table with
Speaker 1: him heard these things, he said to him, blessed is
Speaker 1: he who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: Then he said to him, a certain man gave a
Speaker 1: great supper, and invited many, and sent his servant to
Speaker 1: supper to supper time to say that those who are
Speaker 1: invited come for all the things come. For all things
Speaker 1: are you are now ready. But they all, with one accord,
Speaker 1: began to make excuses. The first said to him, I
Speaker 1: have brought a piece of ground, and I must go
Speaker 1: and see it. I ask you to be to have
Speaker 1: me excused. Another set, I have brought five yoke of oxen,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to test them. I ask you if
Speaker 1: you have if I ask you to have me excused.
Speaker 1: Still another said I have a married wife, and therefore
Speaker 1: I cannot come. So the servant came and reported these
Speaker 1: things to his master. Then the master of the house,
Speaker 1: being angry, said to a servant, go out quickly into
Speaker 1: the streets and lanes of the city, bringing here the poor,
Speaker 1: the name, the lame, and the blind. And the servant said, Master,
Speaker 1: it is done as you commanded, and still there is
Speaker 1: no there is room. Then the master said to the servant,
Speaker 1: go into the highway hedges and compel them to come
Speaker 1: in that my house may be filled. So I say
Speaker 1: to you that none of these men who are invited
Speaker 1: shall shall taste my Supper. So Jesus tells another parable
Speaker 1: about a man who prepares a great banquet invites many guests.
Speaker 1: When the invited guests make excuses not to attend, the
Speaker 1: host invites the poor, the cripple, the blind, and lame,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the excl exclusive inclusivity of God's kingdom and the
Speaker 1: rejection of those.
Speaker 2: Who refuse his invitation.
Speaker 1: So this illustrates God's open invitation to all, regardless of status,
Speaker 1: and warns against the danger of rejecting his call. So
Speaker 1: there's plenty obviously right now that are rejecting his call,
Speaker 1: you know. And they could be rich, they could be
Speaker 1: you know, they could be famous, they could be important
Speaker 1: in the world. But that doesn't matter in the kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven, because it says the greatest will be first,
Speaker 1: are the greatest will be last, and the last will
Speaker 1: be the greatest. You know, like those that are great
Speaker 1: on earth are going to be leased in heaven. Those
Speaker 1: that are great in heaven would would be people that
Speaker 1: were leased on earth. And that's kind of the point
Speaker 1: here leaving leaving all to follow Christ. So it says,
Speaker 1: now great multitudes went with him, and he turned and
Speaker 1: said to them, if anyone comes to me and does
Speaker 1: not hate his father and mother, excuse me, wife and children,
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. Yes, and his own life. Also, he
Speaker 1: cannot be my disciple.
Speaker 2: Okay. So people look at that and go, what is
Speaker 2: he talking about?
Speaker 1: You know, he's definitely telling you stuff. Now, that's one
Speaker 1: thing about Jesus is he'll tell you stuff that you
Speaker 1: don't want to hear. You know, most people that are
Speaker 1: trying to have people follow them, they're going to tell
Speaker 1: you stuff that they want you to hear. If you notice,
Speaker 1: you know Jesus is real because he's telling you stuff
Speaker 1: that you don't want to hear. And that word hate
Speaker 1: in English is very aggressive, right, So when you see
Speaker 1: that word, you're like hate, you want me to hate them.
Speaker 1: But you got to understand that Jesus is speaking in
Speaker 1: a hyperbole, right, like a radical language to get your attention.
Speaker 1: And also if you look in the Greek that word hate,
Speaker 1: it means detest, right. So the love that you that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have for Jesus, he wants it to be
Speaker 1: so great. It's almost like you detest your own father, mother, wife, children, brother, sister,
Speaker 1: and your own life. Okay, So he wants you to
Speaker 1: love him so much that it seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: the love is so great that it's almost like you
Speaker 1: detest all those people.
Speaker 2: In your life, you know.
Speaker 1: Like I said, another word for in the in the
Speaker 1: Greek for hate is detest, which is like it's a
Speaker 1: little less aggressive in the English language. Okay. And when
Speaker 1: I was studying this, they said, nine out of ten times,
Speaker 1: you know, a family member will be the one that
Speaker 1: gets in the way of your devotion to Christ.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So an example is, you know, a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: the wife wants to go to church, and you see
Speaker 1: the wife coming to church or the wife doing Bible studies,
Speaker 1: but the husband stays home. You know, he might be
Speaker 1: watching football with friends, drinking beer, doing whatever you know,
Speaker 1: men think they deserve to do, and the wife is
Speaker 1: out trying to fellowship and trying to get close to God.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's opposite where the wife doesn't want to go
Speaker 1: to church and the husband's trying to go bring the kids,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the thing, you know, And what
Speaker 1: happened is the husband, you know, he motivated to go
Speaker 1: to church or motivated to read the Bible, and then
Speaker 1: the wife will start dragging him back, you know, and
Speaker 1: God wants you to love him more than that. And
Speaker 1: if someone tries to drag you back to understand something.
Speaker 1: This is what I want you guys to understand as well,
Speaker 1: that your salvation doesn't depend on you and your wife.
Speaker 1: You know, when you go to stand before the Lord,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be you and your wife and
Speaker 1: your kids. And you know what I mean that your
Speaker 1: salvation is going to be you and the Lord. It's
Speaker 1: going to be between you and the Lord. Now, we
Speaker 1: are taught as men to be the spiritual leader of
Speaker 1: our house, of course, and try to teach our wives
Speaker 1: and try to teach our children the Bible, of course,
Speaker 1: but your salvation is not going to be you know,
Speaker 1: you and your wife standing in front of it. It's
Speaker 1: going to be you and God. Okay, we only have
Speaker 1: you know, we only have one life to try to
Speaker 1: get this right. So don't let anybody anything get in
Speaker 1: the way of you.
Speaker 2: Your devotion with Christ, your devotion with God, your devotion
Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: You can't, you can't. You can't let it happen. And
Speaker 1: I understand that there's besides family, there's also things that
Speaker 1: get in the way of your devotion and of you
Speaker 1: reading the Bible, of you studying the God's word, there's
Speaker 1: things that get in the way. There's things that are
Speaker 1: like idols that maybe be in your life that might
Speaker 1: prevent you from from getting closer to God. And what
Speaker 1: I would say to that is definitely pray. You know,
Speaker 1: pray that because you know, some people will call Jesus lord,
Speaker 1: you know, my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Right, that
Speaker 1: means that you're master, like is he really the master
Speaker 1: of your life? You know, because you know, does God
Speaker 1: come first in your life? And he's also asking us
Speaker 1: to love him more than we love ourself, so we
Speaker 1: have to pick up our cross and follow him.
Speaker 2: Right, So there's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: That that kind of get in the way of us
Speaker 1: doing that. And this pastor said an interesting thing what
Speaker 1: he said is salvation is free, but discipleship if it
Speaker 1: is expensive. You know, being a disciple, because you are,
Speaker 1: you're kind of you're dropping all these things that are
Speaker 1: that that usually took pleasure in, these worldly things that
Speaker 1: you used to take pleasure in. Now you're you're slowly
Speaker 1: dropping them off, and you know you're getting them out
Speaker 1: of your life. And you're also your life is changing
Speaker 1: obviously changing for the better. You might not realize it
Speaker 1: at first because you're trying to get rid of these
Speaker 1: worldly things, but it's obviously going to be changing for
Speaker 1: the better. Right, But Paul says in a second Corinthians
Speaker 1: twelve seven through ten, he says, and lest I should
Speaker 1: be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations.
Speaker 1: A thorn in the flesh has given to me a
Speaker 1: messenger of Satan to buff amy. Lest I be exalted
Speaker 1: above measure. Concernaly this thing, I plead with the Lord
Speaker 1: three times, and it might depart from me. And he
Speaker 1: said to me, my grace is sufficient to you, for
Speaker 1: my strength has made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly,
Speaker 1: I would rather boast in my infirmities that the power
Speaker 1: of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure
Speaker 1: and infirbenes and reapproaches and needs and persecution and distress
Speaker 1: for Christ's sake. From when I am weak, then I
Speaker 1: am strong, Okay. And one thing I would have to
Speaker 1: say is you have to pray to God to let
Speaker 1: Jesus take the whill right like if it sounds like
Speaker 1: too much or it seems like too much to pray
Speaker 1: for the Holy Spirit to guide you, and let God.
Speaker 2: Take the will and let him help you. Let's continue.
Speaker 1: So this is Luke fourteen twenty seven. And whoever does
Speaker 1: not bear his cross and come after me cannot be
Speaker 1: my disciple. For which of you intended to build the
Speaker 1: tower does not sit down first to count the costs,
Speaker 1: whether he has enough to finish it. Less, after he
Speaker 1: has laid the foundation and is not able to finish,
Speaker 1: all who see it begin, all who see it begin
Speaker 1: to mock him, saying this man began to build and
Speaker 1: was not able to finish. Or what king going to
Speaker 1: make a war against another king does not sit down
Speaker 1: first and consider whether he is able to with the
Speaker 1: ten thousand to meet him who come against him with
Speaker 1: twenty thousand, or else, while the other is still a
Speaker 1: great way off, he sends a delegation and ask conditions
Speaker 1: of peace. So likewise, whoever does not forsake all that,
Speaker 1: he cannot be my disciple. Bobert does not forsake all,
Speaker 1: cannot be my disciple. So Jesus was dealing with a
Speaker 1: lot of people that would probably sit You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just speculating, I know, because when he was dealing with
Speaker 1: that one gentleman where he was saying, you know, sell
Speaker 1: all your things and follow me. He couldn't do it,
Speaker 1: but he said, Jesus, I want to follow you. And
Speaker 1: then he said, okay, sell your sell all your goods
Speaker 1: to the poor and follow me, you know, like, drop
Speaker 1: everything and follow me. Oh no, I got to go
Speaker 1: back to my parents and bury my parents. You see,
Speaker 1: like you kind of see that that people don't really
Speaker 1: want to. They say they want to be a disciple,
Speaker 1: but they're really not ready to drop everything for him,
Speaker 1: you know. And you could tell by what Jesus is
Speaker 1: saying here. And he's saying that if you're going to commit,
Speaker 1: you better have a plan, you understand. So that's why
Speaker 1: it's in that there about the tower. And if you
Speaker 1: don't finish it, they will mock him saying this man
Speaker 1: began to build and was not able to finish. So
Speaker 1: if you're going to become a disciple and you're going
Speaker 1: to commit to that, make sure you're able to finish.
Speaker 1: Finish strong, right, And that's why it says for Christ's sake,
Speaker 1: from when I am weak, then I am strong. See
Speaker 1: Christ will make you strong.
Speaker 2: He'll help you. Uh, He'll help you finish.
Speaker 1: And these people that were following Christ at this time,
Speaker 1: following Jesus at this time, they thought he was going
Speaker 1: to reign as a king on the earth. So they
Speaker 1: were like, let's go. I want to be at the
Speaker 1: right hand of you. You know, I want to be
Speaker 1: you know, I want to be.
Speaker 2: With you with your glory.
Speaker 1: They thought he was going to be king of the earth,
Speaker 1: but they weren't understanding that he's going to be king
Speaker 1: and kings in the heavenly realm.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Some of them were not understanding that tasteless salt is worthless.
Speaker 1: Salt is good. But if the salt has losses flavor,
Speaker 1: how shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for
Speaker 1: the land nor for the dunghill. But men throw it out.
Speaker 2: He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Speaker 1: So Jesus concludes that they metaphor about salt losing his
Speaker 1: flavor symbolize the importance of maintaining our distinctiveness as his followers.
Speaker 1: And then we talked about this already, but the cost
Speaker 1: of his discipleship. This hyperbolic language underscores the need for total.
Speaker 2: Commitment to Christ.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we have a couple of practical applications here
Speaker 1: for this chapter. So prioritize compassion. Evaluate areas in your
Speaker 1: life where legalism may overshadow compassion.
Speaker 2: Seek to show love and mercy.
Speaker 1: Following Jesus' example. So some of us might have a
Speaker 1: little bit religion stuck in our life. There might be
Speaker 1: things that we that we might be following that might
Speaker 1: be men's traditions and not actually God's word. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: what you should probably do is anything you feel is
Speaker 1: you know you're you're doing, uh, you know, because you
Speaker 1: know we always have done it that way or whatever.
Speaker 1: You need to find out if it's actually biblical, because
Speaker 1: there could be something that you might be doing or
Speaker 1: following that might be a tradition that's made by a
Speaker 1: man that might not you might not even find in
Speaker 1: the Bible. Believe me, There's been plenty of times that
Speaker 1: I have, you know, studying through the Word where I
Speaker 1: thought something was going to be in the Bible and
Speaker 1: you cannot find it anywhere. And it's something that I
Speaker 1: like been you know, something that that someone has told me,
Speaker 1: you know, from the beginning, you know, and uh, like
Speaker 1: ever since, like my dad, like he always told me
Speaker 1: like that, he always told me that that Satan and
Speaker 1: the angels fell. A third of the angels fell with
Speaker 1: Satan in the very beginning of you know, before time
Speaker 1: even started, you know, before Genesis even started. And then
Speaker 1: when you read, you don't see it through the Bible.
Speaker 1: You don't see it anywhere in Genesis, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Now you do see Satan in the garden or Loocifer
Speaker 1: in the garden, right, see Satan in the garden of Eden,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing about him falling with a third of
Speaker 1: the angels until you get to Revelation twelve, verse four.
Speaker 1: And it seems like it's that that didn't happen until
Speaker 1: Jesus was actually born. Okay, So it's really interesting that
Speaker 1: that some people would say something and then you know,
Speaker 1: it gets passed down, pass down pastor say it, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it gets ingrained in me
Speaker 1: because I you know, I heard my dad say it,
Speaker 1: and then when I go to read the Bible, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see that anywhere besides in Revelation twelve,
Speaker 1: verse four. And for someone to take that verse and
Speaker 1: then put it all the way to the beginning, you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. After reading it in context. So
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know that that happens. So we
Speaker 1: need to take, you know, take what you've learned. And
Speaker 1: this is why it's important for you to study the
Speaker 1: Word of God yourself. Don't let man lead you and
Speaker 1: guide you. Don't let pastors are good to listen to.
Speaker 1: And it's good to listen to this Bible study that
Speaker 1: I do with you, of course, but what I'm telling
Speaker 1: you is you've got to study the Word for yourself
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Study what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And since we're actually reading the word verse by verse,
Speaker 1: it helps because you're able to hear it and come
Speaker 1: by faith, come with by hearing and hearing by the
Speaker 1: word of God. Okay, so practice humility and social settings.
Speaker 1: Choose to serve others and take the lower place, trusting
Speaker 1: that God will honor you your humility. Yeah, so when
Speaker 1: you're out in public, you know, we're not meant for
Speaker 1: us to get praised. We're not meant for us to
Speaker 1: get the glory. God's meant to get the glory. So
Speaker 1: God doesn't want you to just you know, we can't
Speaker 1: think the same as we used to do, like when
Speaker 1: we were worldly. Respond of God's invitation, reflect on any
Speaker 1: excuses you might be making that prevent you from fully
Speaker 1: accepting God's call. Commit to being part of His kingdom,
Speaker 1: his kingdom work.
Speaker 2: So this is definitely fascinating.
Speaker 1: And depending on what your spiritual gifts are. I mean,
Speaker 1: not all of us can can can you know, do
Speaker 1: Bible studies, and all of us can teach, Not all
Speaker 1: of us can preach, not all of us can do.
Speaker 2: Have certain gifts.
Speaker 1: Some people have the gift of prayer. I've heard some
Speaker 1: people pray. It's like, Wow, that's amazing. I could tell
Speaker 1: that you know, you have that gift. You know, there's
Speaker 1: different gifts. There's about twenty one gifts that I found
Speaker 1: when I was going through the Bible, and people are
Speaker 1: blessed with different gifts, you know. So commit to being
Speaker 1: part of His kingdom. That is that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: Just commit to being part of His kingdom somehow. You know,
Speaker 1: count the costs, Consider what sacrifices you may need to
Speaker 1: make to follow Jesus wholeheartedly. Are the relationships or possessions
Speaker 1: that complete your devotion, that compete with your devotion to him?
Speaker 1: Obviously there's so much out there right now, especially with
Speaker 1: the way the world is right now, how everything is
Speaker 1: set up with technology at your fingertips, TV, cable, TV shows, Netflix, YouTube.
Speaker 1: There's so much entertainment out there that it's easy to
Speaker 1: gather your attention and keep you away from studying the
Speaker 1: Word of God. Like I always say, like you want
Speaker 1: to build your spirit up and have your flesh be weak,
Speaker 1: because if your flesh is over your spirit and your
Speaker 1: spirit is weak, whenever you want to go read the Bible,
Speaker 1: your flesh is gonna say no, no, I want to
Speaker 1: watch American idol or I want to do this. It's
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing with when you want to
Speaker 1: work out, you know, like in the morning when I
Speaker 1: wake up, you know, I wake up at four point
Speaker 1: fifty and then I get up about five to go
Speaker 1: work out in the morning before work. And what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you guys is, of course I want to sleep
Speaker 1: in till five point fifty or six o'clock before work.
Speaker 2: I would much rather do that.
Speaker 1: But my flesh is a lot weaker now, and my
Speaker 1: spirit is saying get up, because that's when I get going,
Speaker 1: and that's when I start working out. But I start
Speaker 1: listening to a sermon or I start listening to you know,
Speaker 1: a study on Luke fourteen fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's when I started getting that that going in the morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm able to work out and listen to a
Speaker 1: pastor preach, kind of write some notes as I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: You see, like that's an example of the flesh being
Speaker 1: weak and the spirit being strong. My flesh wants to sleep,
Speaker 1: of course. Oh man, you stayed up late last night
Speaker 1: doing a podcast. You don't want to wake up and
Speaker 1: work out. No, no, no, I wake up and work
Speaker 1: out anyways. And then I got a study for Sunday service.
Speaker 1: I started reading Deuteronomy eight nine and ten. Now you see,
Speaker 1: That's that's how it is with my life. I'm just
Speaker 1: giving you an example of what's going on with me.
Speaker 1: And it took me a while to just fully commit
Speaker 1: to doing you know. Now, my podcast was always out there.
Speaker 1: It was Josh Monday Christian, a conspiracy podcast, I mean
Speaker 1: the conspiracies where I was at, and I was sprinkling
Speaker 1: it a little bit with Bible. You know, I was
Speaker 1: still leading people to the Lord. I would do shows
Speaker 1: that are all Christian, yes, sometimes, but I would have conspiracy.
Speaker 1: So I'd kind of go back and forth or i'd
Speaker 1: have both together in one show and.
Speaker 2: It did very well, and it did good.
Speaker 1: But what I learned is this is where it's at,
Speaker 1: teaching the Bible verse by verse, this is where it's at.
Speaker 1: And even if my viewership drops or whatever on my show,
Speaker 1: I don't care because the people that need to hear this,
Speaker 1: this is way more effective, you know. But I will, obviously,
Speaker 1: like on my show, I'll continue to do, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit conspiracy and some and some Christian you know,
Speaker 1: and some Christians. I'll have a couple episodes like that,
Speaker 1: but mainly my meat and Potatoes is going to be
Speaker 1: this right here, and on this show Sunday service, Wednesday service,
Speaker 1: it's gonna definitely be this because I don't do any
Speaker 1: conspiracies on this show, but I'll talk about my other shows. See,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm committed to God's kingdom and doing his work,
Speaker 1: and it's it's you don't understand what it's done for
Speaker 1: my life, Guys. You don't understand that full commitment and
Speaker 1: when you're when you're doing things for the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 1: like it's done so much for my spiritual walk, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just beautiful things. So I encourage you guys to
Speaker 1: definitely do that. Maintain your witness, ensure that your life
Speaker 1: reflects the distinctiveness of the follower of Christ, preserving your
Speaker 1: saltiness in a world that needs his flavor. Yes, so
Speaker 1: make sure that the way that you live is reflecting
Speaker 1: you being a child of God, you being saved, you
Speaker 1: being a Christian. So when you're talking to people that
Speaker 1: you know outside of your household or people in your
Speaker 1: household too, make sure. But I'm just saying, if you're
Speaker 1: talking to anybody, you don't want to be out there
Speaker 1: like cussing and and you know, well I can't stand this.
Speaker 2: Well, life sucks.
Speaker 1: I'm grumbling, I'm complaining, Like you don't want to be
Speaker 1: that guy. You want to be reflective of you know,
Speaker 1: appreciative of everything, Appreciate what God gives you, appreciate what
Speaker 1: God does for you, and you want to attract people
Speaker 1: to the faith.
Speaker 2: That way, you could be a disciple. Right. We read
Speaker 2: about it in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: What happens when people are grumbling complaining? You know, we
Speaker 1: should appreciate what we have, you know. But anyways, so
Speaker 1: that's some good stuff. Let me see if I have
Speaker 1: any verses that connect to do this, and then the
Speaker 1: Greek word salt symbolizes preservation, purity, essential.
Speaker 2: Qualities for believers.
Speaker 1: Okay, so just let you guys know, and then that's themes.
Speaker 1: Let's go down to the bottom. Okay, So I don't
Speaker 1: see any verses that connect. I kind of went over
Speaker 1: a few verses that I was as I was going through.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to go to Luke fifteen, and let
Speaker 1: me go to Luke fifteen on here, all right, So
Speaker 1: the parable of the Lost Sheep Luke fifteen, verse one.
Speaker 1: Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near
Speaker 1: to him to hear him. And just to let you
Speaker 1: guys know, the tax collectors were considered traders because they
Speaker 1: were collecting taxes for Rome and not for Israel. Okay,
Speaker 1: So to people from the outside looking in, and they're
Speaker 1: seeing tax collectors with Jesus and sinners with Jesus, and
Speaker 1: they're drawing near to him, this is what the Pharisees
Speaker 1: start doing. This is Luke fifteen, verse two. And the
Speaker 1: Pharisees inscribes complaints, saying this man receives sinners and eats
Speaker 1: with them as he spoke this parable to them, saying
Speaker 1: so we'll stop there and won't say the parable yet,
Speaker 1: just to understand that Jesus was welcoming to sinners, and
Speaker 1: I think that the Church should be like that as well.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, people like me and Bible
Speaker 1: studies like this should be like that too. We should
Speaker 1: be welcoming to sinners because those are the loss those
Speaker 1: are the ones that need assistance, Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that need to be led to Christ.
Speaker 2: The sinners.
Speaker 1: And the Pharisees. They divided people into two groups. The righteous,
Speaker 1: which they felt was themselves, and the sinners are unclean.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know, of course the Pharisees thought
Speaker 1: they were righteous. The scribes thought they were righteous. The
Speaker 1: lawyers thought they were righteous. But they look really righteous
Speaker 1: on the outside, but on the inside they were not
Speaker 1: righteous at all, right, And they wanted people to definitely
Speaker 1: think that they were righteous. They thought they were righteous
Speaker 1: because they were keeping the law, and they thought they
Speaker 1: were above others, not knowing that their works are just
Speaker 1: filthy rags to God. If you look in Isaiah, let
Speaker 1: me get.
Speaker 2: The verse real quick. Filthy rags, yep, that's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be Isaiah sixty four, verse six. But we are
Speaker 1: all like an unclean thing. And all of our righteouses
Speaker 1: are like filthy rags. Okay, So all of our righteousness
Speaker 1: are like filthy rags Isaiah sixty four six. Okay, so when.
Speaker 2: You think you are righteous, your works are like filthy rags.
Speaker 1: Right, they're nothing. And let's see what Paul says. And
Speaker 1: one Timothy one verses fourteen through fifteen. Paul is obviously
Speaker 1: an ex pharisee that became a believer. And you'll see
Speaker 1: the effect that Christ has in his life, and the
Speaker 1: grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love,
Speaker 1: which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying
Speaker 1: and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ, Jesus came into
Speaker 1: the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Speaker 1: So Paul is saying, he is the chief sinner, and
Speaker 1: Jesus came into this world to save us. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we got to understand that. And also Romans five, verse eight,
Speaker 1: it says, but God demonstrates his own love toward us,
Speaker 1: and that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: He's talking about how Christ came for sinners right, and
Speaker 1: Paul is humble enough to say that he is the
Speaker 1: chief sinner. As you know, Paul was murdering Christians, okay,
Speaker 1: he was all about the Pharisees before.
Speaker 2: Okay, when he was Saul. Okay.
Speaker 1: So you see what kind of effect Jesus has in
Speaker 1: his life. He was once one of these guys, thinking
Speaker 1: that he was righteous because he was following the law.
Speaker 2: Let's see what the parable says here, em.
Speaker 1: Luke fifteen verse four, What man of you, having one
Speaker 1: hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not
Speaker 1: leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and go after
Speaker 1: the one which is lost until he finds it. And
Speaker 1: when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Speaker 1: And when he comes home he calls together his friends
Speaker 1: and neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me, for I
Speaker 1: have found my sheep which was lost. I say to that,
Speaker 1: I say to you that likewise there will be more
Speaker 1: joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
Speaker 1: ninety nine just persons who need no repentance. So this
Speaker 1: reminds me of David. You know, he had his sheep,
Speaker 1: and then when one would get lost. He would go
Speaker 1: find the sheep, and sometimes he would have to use
Speaker 1: his sling to kill a lion. One time he had
Speaker 1: to kill a lion to get his sheep.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 1: So, so it's kind of it's interesting because the Pharisees
Speaker 1: thought the opposite of God. They thought that God hated sinners.
Speaker 1: They thought that sinners were just fuel for the fire
Speaker 1: and hell. They didn't realize God's grace and love. It's
Speaker 1: so foreign to them. That's why, that's why it's so
Speaker 1: important for us to read the Old Testament and the
Speaker 1: New Testament. It seems like to the Pharisees that God
Speaker 1: hated sinners. But God hates the sin not the sinners.
Speaker 1: He loves everyone. And Jesus is trying to get that
Speaker 1: through to them that they rejoice more in heaven when
Speaker 1: a sinner repents than ninety nine just persons who need
Speaker 1: no repentance because they have actually, you.
Speaker 2: Know all that. The whole point is for God to
Speaker 2: get you to come to heaven, for you to get
Speaker 2: accept Jesus in your life, for you to repent. That's
Speaker 2: the whole point.
Speaker 1: They're not getting the point the Pharisees. The parable of
Speaker 1: the Lost Coin here's another one, and this is Luke fifteen,
Speaker 1: verse eight. Or actually, let me go to my other notes.
Speaker 1: See I'm always switching back and forth, but I got
Speaker 1: to make sure that I don't want.
Speaker 2: To miss anything.
Speaker 1: So with the parable of the lost sheep. So Jesus
Speaker 1: begins with the parable the smilether notes. Jesus begins with
Speaker 1: the parable of the lost sheep, emphasizing the shepherd's dedication
Speaker 1: to finding the one lost sheep out of one hundred,
Speaker 1: and when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on
Speaker 1: his shoulders and goes home. This illustrates God's personal care
Speaker 1: and joy in recovering the loss. The parable highlights the
Speaker 1: value of each individual to God and his willingness to
Speaker 1: go to great links to bring them back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, yes, very interesting.
Speaker 1: And then the parable of the lost coin is next.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the same type of illustration. It's Luke fifteen,
Speaker 1: verse eight. Or what woman having ten silver coins if
Speaker 1: she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep
Speaker 1: the house and search carefully until she finds it. And
Speaker 1: when she has found that, she calls her friends and
Speaker 1: neighbors saying, rejoice with me, or I found the peace
Speaker 1: which I lost.
Speaker 2: Likewise, I say.
Speaker 1: To you, there is joy in the presence of angels
Speaker 1: of God over one sinner who repents. Okay, I was
Speaker 1: that lost sheep. I'll tell you that right now. I
Speaker 1: was that lost sheep. I was lost, and I am
Speaker 1: so glad. And each one of us was was that
Speaker 1: lost sheep. I don't care who you are. If you
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, I went to church for you know,
Speaker 1: ninety years or fifty years or seventy years, you were
Speaker 1: once that lost sheep as well. And and just understand
Speaker 1: that Heaven rejoiced. There was joy in heaven and then
Speaker 1: the lost coin the parable. Just let you guys know
Speaker 1: that that this is one day's wage, Okay. So it's
Speaker 1: like basically, if you make three hundred dollars in a day,
Speaker 1: it's like you losing three hundred dollars. If you make
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty in a day, it's like you're
Speaker 1: using losing one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay. That coin that they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Is is one day's wage.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what Jesus is saying here, Okay,
Speaker 1: when he says, when she loses that one coin, she
Speaker 1: you know, she's basically sweeping the house to search carefully
Speaker 1: until she finds it. Of course, the woman who loses
Speaker 1: one of her ten silver coins diligently searches until she
Speaker 1: finds it. Symbolizes God's thorough and persistent search for the
Speaker 1: loss in the same way I tell you there's joy
Speaker 1: in the presence of the angels of God over one
Speaker 1: sinner who repents. This underscores the heavenly celebration over repentance.
Speaker 1: So we don't understand that things are happening in the.
Speaker 2: Physical world but also in the spiritual. We always think
Speaker 2: about the physical, the materialistic world, but things are happening
Speaker 2: in the spiritual.
Speaker 1: Things are happening in heaven. Can you, guys, imagine that
Speaker 1: that when you repented and you give your life over
Speaker 1: to God, that not only does it assist you in
Speaker 1: your life and make you happy, but also Heaven rejoices
Speaker 1: and the angels of God are shouting for joy. You're
Speaker 1: causing them to shout for joy. You're you're causing them,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, joy to be in heaven. That's to me,
Speaker 1: that's fascinating. I don't know about to you, guys, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's fascinating. The next one's gonna be Luke fifteen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be about the Prodigal Sun. And one thing
Speaker 1: I'll tell you guys, the only way for you to
Speaker 1: find out God's character is by reading the Bible and
Speaker 1: then whatever your testimony is, you know, how how has
Speaker 1: God treated you? What has God done for you? That's
Speaker 1: a way to find out God's character. Also, it's by
Speaker 1: reading the Bible. You know this is this is basically
Speaker 1: gonna tell you show you God's character all the way
Speaker 1: through from Genesis all the way to Revelation. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see God's character, what he does, how he strengthened us,
Speaker 1: how he how he's there for us, how he's there
Speaker 1: for us in prayer, how is there for us? And
Speaker 1: some vcation, how he's there for us wearing spiritual battles.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to see all that stuff by
Speaker 1: reading through the Bible. And a good indication of how
Speaker 1: God's character is is the way that Jesus tries to
Speaker 1: explain it. It's hard because he explains it in parables, okay,
Speaker 1: and some people don't understand it, but that's the way
Speaker 1: he had to speak.
Speaker 2: Because he was in front of the you know, because
Speaker 2: he was in front of these Pharisees.
Speaker 1: So here's the parable of the lost son.
Speaker 2: So then he said.
Speaker 1: A certain man had two sons, and the younger of
Speaker 1: them said to his father, father, give me the portion
Speaker 1: of goods that falls to me. So we divided them
Speaker 1: his livelihood, and not many days after, the younger son
Speaker 1: gathered all together journeyed to a far country, and they're
Speaker 1: wasted his possessions with prodigal living, prodigal living. But when
Speaker 1: he spent all there arose a severe famine in the land,
Speaker 1: and he began to want. Then he began to be
Speaker 1: in want. Then he went and joined himself to a
Speaker 1: citizen of the country, and he sent him to the
Speaker 1: fields to feed swine, you know, to feed pigs, and
Speaker 1: he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods
Speaker 1: that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
Speaker 1: So he was so starving he was thinking about eating
Speaker 1: what the pigs were eating. And he's also probably Jewish,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's probably from Israel, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's obviously a no go, you know, that's unclean. But
Speaker 1: when he came to himself, he said, how many of
Speaker 1: my father's hired servants have bred enough and to spare,
Speaker 1: and I perish with hunger. I will the rise and
Speaker 1: go to my father, and I will say to him, father,
Speaker 1: I have sinned against heaven, and before you I am
Speaker 1: no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me
Speaker 1: one of your hired servants. And he arose and came
Speaker 1: to his father. But when he was still a great
Speaker 1: way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and
Speaker 1: ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And
Speaker 1: the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven,
Speaker 1: and in your sight, I had no longer worthy to
Speaker 1: be called your son. But the father said to his servants,
Speaker 1: bring out the best robe and put it on him,
Speaker 1: and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on
Speaker 1: his feet, and bring the fatted calf here and kill it,
Speaker 1: and let us eat and be merry, for this is
Speaker 1: my son. For this my son was dead and is
Speaker 1: alive again. He is lost, He was lost and is found.
Speaker 1: And they began to be merry. So they began to
Speaker 1: be happy. Right now, his older son was in the field,
Speaker 1: and he came and drew near to the house. He
Speaker 1: heard music and dancing. He called one of the servants
Speaker 1: and asked, what are the things, what these things meant?
Speaker 1: And what he said to your brother has come, and
Speaker 1: because he has received safe and sound, your father killed
Speaker 1: the fat and calf. But he was angry and he
Speaker 1: would not go in. Therefore his father came out and
Speaker 1: pleaded with him. So we answered, as soon as his
Speaker 1: father lo these many years I have been with I've
Speaker 1: been serving you. I never transgressed your commandment at any time.
Speaker 1: And yet you never gave me a young goat. And
Speaker 1: I might marry with my that I might marry with
Speaker 1: my friends. But as soon as the son of yours came,
Speaker 1: he has devoured your livelihood with harlots. You killed your
Speaker 1: fat and calf for him, and he said to him, son,
Speaker 1: you are always with me, and all that I have
Speaker 1: is yours, And it was right that you should marry,
Speaker 1: make merry, and be glad, for your brother was dead
Speaker 1: and is alive again, and this and was lost and
Speaker 1: is found. So here we have the prodigal son. And
Speaker 1: just let you guys know, prodigal doesn't mean wanderer and
Speaker 1: means squanderer. You know he's squandering the money.
Speaker 2: Right. So people in.
Speaker 1: Parables used representative of us or a characteristic that we
Speaker 1: all share. So the Father is representing obviously as God
Speaker 1: the Father. And if you notice in the beginning, it
Speaker 1: says that he asked for his portion and then he
Speaker 1: just gave it to him, right, And that's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, like.
Speaker 2: Our free will.
Speaker 1: Like if you ask God, hey, give me all my
Speaker 1: my give me everything upfront. I want my gifts now
Speaker 1: instead of, you know, getting your heavenly gifts.
Speaker 2: Then sometimes you can get that.
Speaker 1: You can get all your your inheritance up front instead
Speaker 1: of waiting and being patient and waiting for your heavenly gifts,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what some people do. You have
Speaker 1: free will. And then what I thought was interesting too,
Speaker 1: is it says that he journeyed to a far country. Okay,
Speaker 1: it doesn't say that he went to like another town over.
Speaker 1: He journeyed to a far country. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: a representation of him trying to get away from all
Speaker 1: the people he knew. And also that way he could
Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted to do. And it seemed like
Speaker 1: he wanted to go crazy and party like a lot
Speaker 1: of us did. But as you see, as the story continues,
Speaker 1: he wasted his possessions. He spent all there was a
Speaker 1: famine in the land. So you know what I believe
Speaker 1: right here when he said that he would gladly have
Speaker 1: filled the stomach with the pods of the swine eight
Speaker 1: and no one gave him anything. It's just this is
Speaker 1: a representation is somebody that hit rock bottom. I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of us have done that, especially people that
Speaker 1: have gone down the road of doing drugs.
Speaker 2: A lot of us have hit rock bottom.
Speaker 1: And you could be a normal person with the family,
Speaker 1: doing normal things families do, eating dinner together, you know,
Speaker 1: enjoying your family and doing really well with your.
Speaker 2: Family, and then you could end up. This is not
Speaker 2: my story. I'm just telling you that what could happen.
Speaker 2: My story was different. My parents divorced.
Speaker 1: My dad was like selling drugs, you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: so I was in.
Speaker 2: A whole different ballgame.
Speaker 1: But you could have a family that is together, and
Speaker 1: you could be living and your family could be well
Speaker 1: off or middle class. Everything could be going great, and
Speaker 1: then you could dip into some drugs and then your
Speaker 1: life can go downhill. You could start hanging out with
Speaker 1: people that are bad news, and you could be going
Speaker 1: from this happy, go lucky person to just being down
Speaker 1: in the dumps, and I was at one time. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm talking. I mean, I was just not doing
Speaker 1: well at all. Before I met my wife, I was
Speaker 1: not doing well at all.
Speaker 2: I was just like this guy.
Speaker 1: I was hanging out with people that were bad news
Speaker 1: and I was away wait for my family. I wasn't
Speaker 1: speaking to anybody anymore. I was down in the dirt.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: What I did is I moved back to my dad's
Speaker 1: house in Vegas, even though my dad wasn't doing the
Speaker 1: greatest at the time. And I moved to Vegas and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I want to I'm going to
Speaker 1: join the United States Army.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: And I had a recruiter come and pick me up
Speaker 1: and brought me back to the High Desert which is
Speaker 1: in Victoryville, and I was like, okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: join the military. I was going to go full time
Speaker 1: in the military. And the lady say, it's going to
Speaker 1: take about three weeks to process, so I'll give you
Speaker 1: a little time. And somebody came to me and one
Speaker 1: of my he's a police officer, and he's he was
Speaker 1: a detective, a LA detective, and said, hey, man, I'm
Speaker 1: going to start a bar and grill, and I would
Speaker 1: like you to be a bartender. And I started out
Speaker 1: actually as a bar back and cleaning dishes. I didn't
Speaker 1: come as so I got humbled and like real quick.
Speaker 1: But I was at rock bottom before this, and I
Speaker 1: was going to join the military at that time. But
Speaker 1: I met my wife and then we ended up being together,
Speaker 1: and then it took me a little bit longer for
Speaker 1: me to join. I ended up still joining the military,
Speaker 1: but I was about to go full time boom and
Speaker 1: just go, you know, but I've been at this point
Speaker 1: where I was rock bottom like this gentleman, Okay, and
Speaker 1: it happens, and that's and I know plenty of people
Speaker 1: that have been rock bottom.
Speaker 2: Thank God, thank God.
Speaker 1: He is the way he is in this story, because
Speaker 1: if he wasn't, I would not be here right now
Speaker 1: doing this show. I would not be here with the house,
Speaker 1: I would not be here with my kids. I would
Speaker 1: not be here with my wife. I could be dead
Speaker 1: at this point. But thank God he is how he is.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for being forgiving. And let's continue. So
Speaker 1: the other son, Okay, the other son in here is
Speaker 1: a representation of I think this is just my own
Speaker 1: speculation of somebody that goes to church every Sunday and Wednesday,
Speaker 1: you know that thinks they know God, but they're actually
Speaker 1: far away from God's heart. They think they understand God,
Speaker 1: but they don't really understand God's heart. Okay, because if
Speaker 1: they understood God's heart, they would know that God is
Speaker 1: willing to be that that, you know, open arm, coming
Speaker 1: to give you a hug, happy that you're back, giving
Speaker 1: you these you know, the best robe, putting a ring
Speaker 1: on his hand, sandals on his feet. So you might
Speaker 1: have think that he's not gonna be forgiving you because
Speaker 1: you're so terrible and you're so wrong, and you're so bad.
Speaker 2: But God has been waiting the whole time for you
Speaker 2: to come, and he's gonna do exactly what it says
Speaker 2: in the story.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be waiting for you, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: with open arms.
Speaker 2: So I got one thing for you.
Speaker 1: Romans six, verses six to seven says we know that
Speaker 1: our old self was crucified with him in order that
Speaker 1: our body of sin might be brought to nothing, so
Speaker 1: that he would no longer be enslaved to sin. For
Speaker 1: one who has died has been set free from sin.
Speaker 2: Okay, so very powerful verse.
Speaker 1: Let's go to my other notes to see if I
Speaker 1: got any teaching points here for you.
Speaker 2: The Prodigal Son.
Speaker 1: The story of the prodigal Son illustrates the depth of
Speaker 1: God's forgiveness and the joy of reconciliation. The father's response
Speaker 1: to the returning son, running to him, embracing him, and
Speaker 1: celebrating his return, demonstrates God's unconditional love and readiness to forgive.
Speaker 1: The elder brother's reactions serve as a warning against self
Speaker 1: righteousness and reminded to share God's joy over the repentant.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of people that are in.
Speaker 1: Church, and if you go to if you get somebody
Speaker 1: that's a sinner and they come and they repent, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be joyful of that that they're repenting.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's a lot of people that are.
Speaker 1: There's just some that are probably religious that might be like,
Speaker 1: get that sinner out of here.
Speaker 2: I don't want that person in here.
Speaker 1: So let's see if there's anything else here. So this,
Speaker 1: the whole chapter just illustrates God's on wavering love and
Speaker 1: joyous celebration over the repentance of a single sinner. It
Speaker 1: just shows you that you might think that that God's
Speaker 1: not going to forgive you, that you're bad, you're you're
Speaker 1: the worst, and you don't deserve it. But what we don't,
Speaker 1: what we fail to realize, is that God's just waiting
Speaker 1: for you to repent, doesn't matter who you are. Some
Speaker 1: practical applications for this recognize that God actively seeks out
Speaker 1: the loss and desires relationship with each of us. Reflect
Speaker 1: on your own life and consider areas where you may
Speaker 1: have strayed, knowing that God is eager to welcome you back.
Speaker 2: Now I can reflect on my life.
Speaker 1: I know exactly the stuff that I've done wrong, and
Speaker 1: God knows as well, and you know, my wife knows,
Speaker 1: you know. And I've gone over my testimony on you know,
Speaker 1: some of my shows on Josh Monday Christian Conspiracy podcast.
Speaker 1: Price not so much here, but I kind of concentrated
Speaker 1: this show mainly on just you know, staying on course,
Speaker 1: on going word for word in the Bible. But you
Speaker 1: guys get to hear a little bit of my testimony.
Speaker 1: Let's see the next one. Celebrate repentance, Rejoice with others
Speaker 1: when they turn back to God, understanding the immense joy
Speaker 1: it brings. To the Father, encourage and support those who
Speaker 1: are on their journey back to the faith. Of course,
Speaker 1: to be there for people. Some people are probably not
Speaker 1: uh you know, they won't accept Christ in the because
Speaker 1: that they have some sin that's that they're kind of
Speaker 1: still holding on to that they.
Speaker 2: Cannot let go.
Speaker 1: That's why a lot of people, you know, I know
Speaker 1: how it is, you know, to have some kind of
Speaker 1: uh something that's holding you back that you don't want
Speaker 1: to let go yet.
Speaker 2: You know. I had to let go of a lot
Speaker 2: of things. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Dip, you know, chewing tobacco when I was in the military.
Speaker 3: Dang, I was this big old dip in my mouth,
Speaker 3: feeling helicopters, you know. I I used to love to
Speaker 3: you know, nicotine. You know, I had cigarettes, nicotine, and
Speaker 3: then I went to vaping and I'd be like, hey, cool,
Speaker 3: I'm not even smoking cigarettes and where I'm just vaping and.
Speaker 1: That's just as bad, you know. So I had to
Speaker 1: let go of a lot of things, and I never
Speaker 1: it wasn't me. God is the one that led me out.
Speaker 1: Because when you're doing anything and you're addicted, you are
Speaker 1: a slave to whatever you're addicted to. And I know
Speaker 1: how it is because I didn't want to leave the
Speaker 1: house without my cigarettes or without my tobacco, without my
Speaker 1: dip or my nicotine.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: Leave the house without it. I don't want to leave
Speaker 1: the barracks without it. I wanted to make sure I
Speaker 1: had it because I needed it all the time. So
Speaker 1: you become an actual slave to whatever you're addicted to.
Speaker 1: And I know how it is with drugs too. I'd
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning that's all I could think about,
Speaker 1: is getting those drugs. Can you imagine if you had
Speaker 1: that same passion for Christ and for God that you
Speaker 1: can't leave the house unless you pray to God, you
Speaker 1: can't leave the house unless.
Speaker 2: You read the Bible.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you had that same you know,
Speaker 1: turn that addiction into something that's positive like this, Turn
Speaker 1: that addiction into working out and listening to pastors preach
Speaker 1: and reading the Bible. My goodness, you can imagine what
Speaker 1: it would do for you. You're not going to have a
Speaker 1: big hole in your lip.
Speaker 2: You're not going to have lung cancer.
Speaker 1: You're not going to have a throat cancer or cheek cancer.
Speaker 1: If you are, if you're reading the Word God, you
Speaker 1: might have a sore jaw from talking so much like me.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna have You know all these negative
Speaker 1: effects it has on you. Alcohol, I mean you see
Speaker 1: what has the effect that has on people and their family.
Speaker 1: Some men they beat their wives because they're drinking. Some men,
Speaker 1: some wives beat their husband because they're drinking. It causes adultery,
Speaker 1: It causes things in people's life that's terrible. It causes
Speaker 1: you to invite all your friends over, put your friends
Speaker 1: over your wife. You know, it could cause so much stuff.
Speaker 1: So man, extend grace and forgiveness. Follow the example of
Speaker 1: the Father in the Parable. By offering forgiveness and grace
Speaker 1: to those who have wronged you avoid the trap of
Speaker 1: self righteousness and cultivate a heart that mirrors God's love
Speaker 1: and compassion. Yes, and and the stuff that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about right now about me quitting alcohol and drinking and
Speaker 1: all that, and smoking cigarettes, all that stuff, it's not
Speaker 1: me trying to be self righteous. What it is is
Speaker 1: me just trying to tell you guys that it's possible,
Speaker 1: and it's only possible through God. Okay, I didn't do
Speaker 1: it on my own. I prayed and prayed and prayed,
Speaker 1: and God assisted me. The Holy Spirit drove me out
Speaker 1: of that. Let's see if I have any any connecting
Speaker 1: additional scriptures is Psalms twenty three, verses one through four.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can go to that real quick.
Speaker 1: Psalms twenty three. Psalms twenty three. It says, the Lord
Speaker 1: is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me
Speaker 1: to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside
Speaker 1: the still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me
Speaker 1: in the past of righteousness for his namesake. Yeay, though
Speaker 1: I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
Speaker 1: I will fear no evil, for you are with me,
Speaker 1: your rod, your staff, they comfort me.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You prepare a table before me in the presence of
Speaker 1: my enemies. You annoy it my head with oil. My
Speaker 1: cup runs over. So that's basically just telling you how
Speaker 1: God has your back. The Lord is your shepherd, right
Speaker 1: and when you're talking about the sheep, then guiding you
Speaker 1: and restoring you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So Ezekiel thirty four eleven through sixteen talks about God's
Speaker 1: promise to search for and care for his sheep. Ezekiel
Speaker 1: thirty four eleven through sixteen. Let's see what that, says Ezekiel.
Speaker 1: Thirty four, zek you'll thirty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole chap irresponsible shepherds.
Speaker 1: Well, God, the true shepherd, it says for us, says
Speaker 1: the Lord God. Indeed, I myself will search for my
Speaker 1: sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out
Speaker 1: his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep.
Speaker 1: So will I seek out my sheep and deliver them
Speaker 1: from all the places where they are scattered on a
Speaker 1: cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out
Speaker 1: from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and
Speaker 1: I will bring them to their own land.
Speaker 2: I will feed them.
Speaker 1: On the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in
Speaker 1: the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them
Speaker 1: in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the
Speaker 1: high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in
Speaker 1: a good fold and feed in a rich pastor. On
Speaker 1: the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and
Speaker 1: I will make them. I will make them lie down,
Speaker 1: says the Lord God. I will seek what was lost,
Speaker 1: and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken,
Speaker 1: and strengthen what was sick. But I will destroy the
Speaker 1: fat the strong and feed them in judgment. So you
Speaker 1: see how God works right Second Peter three, verse nine.
Speaker 1: God's patience and desire for all to come to repentance
Speaker 1: is what that verse speaks about. So themes the parable particles. Son, Okay,
Speaker 1: we kind of went over that perfect. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to be going to Luke sixteen verse one. We got
Speaker 1: probably about forty minutes thirty five minutes the parable of
Speaker 1: the unjust Stewart. There was a certain rich man who
Speaker 1: had a stewart, and an act acusation was brought to
Speaker 1: him that this man was wasting his goods. So we
Speaker 1: called him and said to him, what is this I
Speaker 1: hear about? You? Give an account of your stewardship where
Speaker 1: you can no longer be stewart. Then the steward said
Speaker 1: within himself, where shall I do? For my master has
Speaker 1: taken the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig. I
Speaker 1: am ashamed to beg. I have resolved what to do
Speaker 1: that when I put out my stewardship, they may receive
Speaker 1: me into their houses. So he called one of his
Speaker 1: master's debtors to him and said to him how much
Speaker 1: do I owe my master? And he said, one hundred
Speaker 1: measures of oil. So we said to him, take your bill,
Speaker 1: sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then he said to another,
Speaker 1: how much do I owe?
Speaker 2: You? Do you owe?
Speaker 1: So we said one hundred measures of wheat? And he
Speaker 1: said to him, take your bill and write eighty. So
Speaker 1: the master commanded the unjust stewart because he had dealt shortly.
Speaker 1: For the sons of this world are more shrewd shrewd
Speaker 1: in this generation then the suns of light. And I
Speaker 1: say to you, make friends for yourself by unrighteous mammon
Speaker 1: or money, and when you fail, they may receive you
Speaker 1: into the everlasting home. For he who is faithful, and
Speaker 1: what is least, is faithful also and much. And he
Speaker 1: who is unjust, and what is least is unjust also
Speaker 1: and much. Therefore, if you have been faithful in the
Speaker 1: unrighteous mammon, who will commit the trust? That who will
Speaker 1: commit your trust the true riches? And if you have
Speaker 1: been faithful in what another man's who will give? Who
Speaker 1: will give you what is your own? No servant can
Speaker 1: serve two masters, for either he will hate the one
Speaker 1: or love the other, or else he will be loyal
Speaker 1: to the one and despise the other. You can't serve.
Speaker 1: You cannot serve God and Mammon, or God and money,
Speaker 1: or God and the God of money. You can't serve
Speaker 1: God and Satan.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You gotta love the one and hate the other. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: so the rich man is the employer to the manager.
Speaker 1: He is the figure of authority who holds the manager
Speaker 1: accountable for his stewardship.
Speaker 2: Hold on, let me go to the.
Speaker 1: So Jesus tells the story of a manager who, upon
Speaker 1: learning he will be dismissed, shrewdly reduces the debts of
Speaker 1: his master's debtors to secure future favor. The parable highlights
Speaker 1: the importance of using worldly wealth to gain internal beliefs,
Speaker 1: for the son of this age are more shrewd in
Speaker 1: the dealing with their own kind than the other sons
Speaker 1: of light. This verse challenges believers to be wise and
Speaker 1: discerning in their use of resources. Jesus emphasizes faithfulness in
Speaker 1: small things. Whoever is faithful with very little will also
Speaker 1: be faithful and much. The impossibility of serving two masters.
Speaker 1: You cannot serve both God and money. Okay, let's see here,
Speaker 1: and let's go to the next portion. The Law, the prophets,
Speaker 1: and the Kingdom. Now, the Pharisees, who were lovers of money,
Speaker 1: also heard these things, and they derided him. That derided him,
Speaker 1: And He also said to them, you are those who
Speaker 1: justify yourselves before men. But God knows your hearts, for
Speaker 1: what is highly esteemed among you is an abomination the
Speaker 1: side of God, the Law and the prophets were until John.
Speaker 1: Since that time, the Kingdom of God has been preached,
Speaker 1: and everyone is pressing into it. It is easier for
Speaker 1: heaven and earth to pass away than for one little,
Speaker 1: one tittle of the law to fail. Whoever divorces his
Speaker 1: wife and marries another commits adults and whoever marries her
Speaker 1: who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. And then
Speaker 1: next up we're going to be going to We're going
Speaker 1: to be going to the law. Hold on, I mean
Speaker 1: to the rich man in Lazareth. So this little part
Speaker 1: portion that we just read, Jesus affirms the enduring validity
Speaker 1: of the law and the prophets until the coming of
Speaker 1: John the Baptist, emphasizing the Kingdom of God as being
Speaker 1: proclaimed and that everyone is forcing their way into it.
Speaker 1: He underscores the pre eminence of God's law okay. And
Speaker 1: then then Jesus briefly addresses the issue of divorce, saying
Speaker 1: that anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery,
Speaker 1: and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. So
Speaker 1: he just kind of threw that in there at the
Speaker 1: end there, and next up is going to be the
Speaker 1: rich man and Lazaruth.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to pay attention to this. This
Speaker 1: is very important, Okay to me. This is real people.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't look at this as a story or parable
Speaker 1: to me, this is real people, because if you notice,
Speaker 1: in all of the parables that we've read, and any
Speaker 1: of the stories or parables that we've read, Jesus never
Speaker 1: says anybody's name, and this one he actually says the name. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you guys something. Let's go through
Speaker 1: this verse and then I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, but this is this for me, is very important.
Speaker 2: It's very important for us. So let's let's go. This
Speaker 2: is a.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Luke sixteen, verse nineteen. Then there was
Speaker 1: a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and
Speaker 1: fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was
Speaker 1: a certain beggar named Lasaruth, full of sores, who was
Speaker 1: laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the
Speaker 1: crumbs which fell from the rich man's tas. Moreover, the
Speaker 1: dogs came and licked his sores, so it was the beggar.
Speaker 1: So it was that the beggar died and was carried
Speaker 1: by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also
Speaker 1: died and was buried. In being in the torments of Hades,
Speaker 1: he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham, afar Off
Speaker 1: and Lazarum in his bosom. Then he cried out and said, Father, Abraham,
Speaker 1: have mercy on me, and send Lazareth that he may
Speaker 1: dip the tip of his finger in water and cool
Speaker 1: my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But
Speaker 1: Abraham said, son, remember that in your lifetime you receive
Speaker 1: good things, and likewise Lazareth evil things.
Speaker 2: But now he is.
Speaker 1: Comforted and you are tormented. And besides all of this
Speaker 1: between us, there was a great golf fixed, or a
Speaker 1: great cavern okay, so that those who want to pass
Speaker 1: from here to you cannot nor can those from there
Speaker 1: pass to us. It's impossible. Okay, if you're in Hades
Speaker 1: or hell, you cannot come over to.
Speaker 2: Paradise, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Then he said, I beg you there for a father,
Speaker 1: that if you would send him to my father's house,
Speaker 1: for I have five brothers that may that he may
Speaker 1: testify to them lest they come to this place of torment.
Speaker 1: He wants to send you know, wants to send Lassar's
Speaker 1: up there to testify. He wants to send somebody to
Speaker 1: testify to his five brothers. And Abraham said to him,
Speaker 1: they have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.
Speaker 1: Let them hear them. And he said, no, Father Abraham,
Speaker 1: but if one goes up to them from the dead,
Speaker 1: they will repent. But he said to him that they
Speaker 1: do not hear Moses and the prophets. Neither will they
Speaker 1: be persuaded by the one who who the one rise
Speaker 1: from the dead, persuaded by through one rise from the dead. Now,
Speaker 1: notice something here, Okay, this I believe. I mean, I
Speaker 1: believe in biblical cosmology. You might not believe the same
Speaker 1: as me, But I believe that shield is located in
Speaker 1: the earth and back before Jesus died on the cross,
Speaker 1: you have one side that is Abraham's bosom, which is
Speaker 1: like Paradise, and then you have a giant golf in between,
Speaker 1: and on the other side you have Hades or Shield.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And one thing that some people fail to realize is
Speaker 1: that soon as the beggar died, he was carried by angels.
Speaker 1: So soon as you die, the angels come and get you. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one thing I'm noticing in this story. That's something
Speaker 1: we need to pay attention to. And then also the
Speaker 1: rich man died was buried and being torment and Hades.
Speaker 1: So the rich man dies, you know, his body gets
Speaker 1: buried and he ends up being taken to Hades and
Speaker 1: there's a there's a gulf between them. But obviously he's
Speaker 1: able to see Abraham. First of all, he's able to
Speaker 1: speak to Abraham. He's able to thirst, right, so you
Speaker 1: got it seems like when you're in Shield or Hell,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have all five senses. He's able to hear
Speaker 1: Abraham speak, Okay. So if you're able to thirst, it
Speaker 1: seems like you're conscious in Hell, okay. And Abraham obviously
Speaker 1: is also conscious in Paradise, where he's at in Abraham's bosom, right.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: It says that they're being he's being tormented in hades.
Speaker 1: He lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar Off
Speaker 1: and Lazar than his bosom, right. So so he's asking
Speaker 1: for them to dip just a little bit of water
Speaker 1: to just cool off his tongue, he says, because I'm
Speaker 1: tormented in this flame. So obviously he has a flame
Speaker 1: at his feet, and he is thirsty, and he's feeling uncomfortable. Okay,
Speaker 1: but he never he walked over uh Lasser every day
Speaker 1: sores on his back, you know, Uh, he probably had
Speaker 1: walked over him all the time. And you know, he
Speaker 1: might as he might see people like that all the time.
Speaker 1: But he was rich, okay, and he was he was
Speaker 1: so it says that it says that his crumbs fell
Speaker 1: from the rich man's table, more of the dogs came
Speaker 1: to lick his sore, so he was he was only
Speaker 1: eating the crumbs off the rich man's table. He would
Speaker 1: just toss it to him, you know. And there it's
Speaker 1: also very interesting that he says this. It's interesting he says,
Speaker 1: besides all this between us, there's a great golf that
Speaker 1: those who want to pass from here to you cannot.
Speaker 1: So it looks like the people in Paradise might see
Speaker 1: their family members in Shield, and the people in Shield
Speaker 1: might see their family members in Paradise. And obviously the
Speaker 1: people that are in Paradise don't want to go to Shield,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that they would want to help the
Speaker 1: people that you know, their family members that are in Shield.
Speaker 1: And it says that that's why it says, besides all
Speaker 1: this between us, there's a great golf, so that those
Speaker 1: who want to pass from here to you cannot Because
Speaker 1: there is some that want.
Speaker 2: To pass to probably my husband's there. Oh you know,
Speaker 2: they probably do miss them.
Speaker 1: They cannot, nor can those from their pass to us,
Speaker 1: saying that those that are in Shield cannot pass to us.
Speaker 1: You see, this is a picture of what's going on
Speaker 1: when you die, and it's coming from God. Okay, Jesus,
Speaker 1: who I believe is God right in the flesh, is
Speaker 1: showing you a picture of what's going to happen. And
Speaker 1: when you go to Shield, if you end up going
Speaker 1: to Hell, you're gonna want comfort and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: find it. You're gonna have fire at your feet, an
Speaker 1: unquenchable thirst, says I beg therefore, father, that you would
Speaker 1: send him to my father's house. You see, like he's
Speaker 1: worried about his family. He does not want his family
Speaker 1: to go to hell. But you know, instead of thinking
Speaker 1: about that when you're already, like when you end up
Speaker 1: in hell, you have to think about this while you're
Speaker 1: on earth.
Speaker 2: Don't wait till it's too late. You know, you could
Speaker 2: go to sleep tonight, have a heart attack and die
Speaker 2: and not be able to get saved and end up
Speaker 2: in Hell, just like the rich man here.
Speaker 1: And then I think it's fascinating that he says that
Speaker 1: that if they don't.
Speaker 2: Listen to Moses, it seems like Moses. It seems like.
Speaker 1: This time when this guy is is in shield. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the rich man that Moses is on the
Speaker 1: earth prophet prophesizing.
Speaker 2: They have.
Speaker 1: That's why it says they have Moses and the prophets.
Speaker 1: Let them hear them. And he said, no, Father Abraham,
Speaker 1: but if one goes to them from the dead, they
Speaker 1: will repent. But he said to him, if they do
Speaker 1: not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded.
Speaker 2: Through one rise from the dead.
Speaker 1: Like look at that, Jesus, your shoe of the Machia,
Speaker 1: God in the flesh is there and they're not believing him. Okay,
Speaker 1: you see how it is. And Jesus rose from the
Speaker 1: dead and they made excuses. So I gotta you, just
Speaker 1: gotta understand if you read the Bible, there's actually I
Speaker 1: did a show on Colt Conspiracy. Guys can go back
Speaker 1: and listen to it where I talk about shield being
Speaker 1: in the Earth. I go verse by verse by verse
Speaker 1: and tell you exactly why I think that Hell is
Speaker 1: in the earth, because they always talk about the underworld
Speaker 1: being down. Okay, it says that Jesus, before he uscended
Speaker 1: to heaven, which means go up to Heaven, he first
Speaker 1: descended into the earth.
Speaker 2: That's a Pheasians four, verse eight. I believe.
Speaker 1: He descended into the earth. Where is the bottomless pit
Speaker 1: on the globe and all this other stuff, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know that the Bible talks about a bottomless pit.
Speaker 1: It talks about angels being locked up in a bottomless
Speaker 1: pit in the Abyss, which is the water in the earth.
Speaker 1: It talks about the underworld being down, it talks about
Speaker 1: going down to Hell. There's a lot of verses that
Speaker 1: talk about that, and I think this is a this
Speaker 1: is a first hand account to let.
Speaker 2: You guys know what to expect.
Speaker 1: And also it's it's letting us know that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a whole five senses when you're in hell. You're
Speaker 1: gonna recognize people, and you're gonna know that you made
Speaker 1: mistakes on earth and you never repented, and you didn't
Speaker 1: believe in God, and you're not going to be able
Speaker 1: to ever get that back. Okay, Now, there is a
Speaker 1: verse that says that Jesus uh once let me see
Speaker 1: it's in.
Speaker 2: It's in Peter. Jesus preached preaches.
Speaker 1: It's one Peter three nineteen. Some Christians interpret suggests Jesus
Speaker 1: preach to spirits in hell after his death and before
Speaker 1: his resurrection.
Speaker 2: That's going to be Let's see.
Speaker 1: First, let me just read the verse for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now we can kind of get the context. One Peter three,
Speaker 1: verse nineteen. It says, for Christ also suffered once for
Speaker 1: sins the just for the unjust, that he might bring
Speaker 1: us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
Speaker 1: but made alive by spirit, by whom also he went
Speaker 1: and preached to the spirits in prison who formerly were
Speaker 1: disobedient when once the divine long suffering waited in the
Speaker 1: days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in
Speaker 1: which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.
Speaker 1: There's also an anti type which now saves us baptism,
Speaker 1: not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but
Speaker 1: the answer of the good conscious toward God through the
Speaker 1: resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has gone into heaven and
Speaker 1: is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities
Speaker 1: and powers having been made subject to him. So it
Speaker 1: says that he preached to the spirits in prison who
Speaker 1: were formerly were disobedient.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Well, if you go to Ephesians four, I think it's
Speaker 1: a Pheesians four eight. It talks about before he ascended
Speaker 1: went up to heaven to be at the right hand
Speaker 1: of God, he first descended and went into the.
Speaker 2: Earth, the lower parts of the earth.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure that I'm correct on that verse four eight. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's actually going to be Seasion four.
Speaker 2: It says.
Speaker 1: Therefore, he says, when he ascended on high, he led,
Speaker 1: He led captivity captive and gave gifts to them. He
Speaker 1: led captivity captive and gave gifts to them. Now, this
Speaker 1: he ascended, what it does mean that he also first
Speaker 1: descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who
Speaker 1: descended is also the one who ascended far above the
Speaker 1: heavens that he might fill, he might fill all things. Okay,
Speaker 1: Before he went up to heaven, he descended to the
Speaker 1: lower parts of the Earth.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm.
Speaker 1: Telling you I believe that this scenario that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about right here in Luke is actually in the Earth.
Speaker 1: It's part of biblical cosmology, ancient Hebrew cosmology, is I've
Speaker 1: taught it before. You guys already know where I stand.
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying you have to believe in that.
Speaker 1: But I do think I believe personally that Hell is
Speaker 1: located in the Earth. We've only dug down eight miles,
Speaker 1: that's as far as we could go with the best
Speaker 1: technology that we have, and we aren't even close, Okay.
Speaker 1: So it just it seems like there's an unpenetrable barrier
Speaker 1: before you get to Heaven, and there's an unperatradable barrier
Speaker 1: before you can get to shield because it says that
Speaker 1: you can't get in there and they can't pass that gulf.
Speaker 2: Okay. So that's just what I believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, you don't have to believe what I believe, but
Speaker 1: that's what I personally believe. I believe Shield is located
Speaker 1: in the Earth. There's plenty of verses that talk about
Speaker 1: you know, especially that one.
Speaker 2: Right there, that's a that's a big one.
Speaker 1: It talks about him going to the lower parts of
Speaker 1: the earth. It also talks about everything in heaven, everything
Speaker 1: on earth, and everything under the earth or in the earth.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Second Philippians. No, it's Philippians two, verse eleven.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: Philippians two. It says this started verse nine. Therefore God
Speaker 1: also has highly exalted him and given him the name
Speaker 1: which is above every name than in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Every knee should bow of those in heaven, which covers
Speaker 1: everything in heaven, all the knees in heaven, right of
Speaker 1: those on earth. Right that that covers every single knee
Speaker 1: that's on the earth, and those under the earth, which
Speaker 1: will cover every.
Speaker 2: Knee that's in Sheeld.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what we need to understand also is Abraham's
Speaker 1: Bosom was one section which was Paradise.
Speaker 2: On the other side was Sheiel. But when Jesus died
Speaker 2: on the cross, he went and preached to those spirits
Speaker 2: in shield, and that's when people were allowed to go
Speaker 2: to heaven. Before that, you weren't allowed to go to heaven.
Speaker 2: You were not.
Speaker 1: Allowed to go to heaven because Jesus had not died
Speaker 1: on the cross yet. That's the only way that it can.
Speaker 2: Make you holy. Of course, the law was.
Speaker 1: There, but you weren't. The law was not meant for
Speaker 1: you to get to heaven and have salvation. The law
Speaker 1: was meant for you to get to the Promised Land,
Speaker 1: and and and you're attempting to be holy with God,
Speaker 1: but you're not.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Now, there was a there is contention to that, obviously,
Speaker 1: because people would say, what about Elijah and what about Enoch?
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you whether, but I've done some
Speaker 1: studies on that, and Enoch it says that he, you know,
Speaker 1: it says that he.
Speaker 2: Let's see what it says.
Speaker 1: I know it's in Genesis about Genesis three, something like that. Oh,
Speaker 1: I have to just start to see where is that
Speaker 1: a cain? Yeah, you know, I'm just kind of okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be all right. I there's some contention there
Speaker 1: that Enoch didn't go to heaven. But I you know,
Speaker 1: it does say that he walked with God and he
Speaker 1: was taken uh taken by God. And some people believe
Speaker 1: that he was taken to Abraham's bosom. Some people believe
Speaker 1: that it was his paradise. Some people believe he was
Speaker 1: taken to God to heaven, but some people's you know,
Speaker 1: i'd have to do a deeper study on it. I'd
Speaker 1: have to go verse by verse to tell you, guys.
Speaker 1: But Elijah's another one, all right, Elijah's another one. Okay,
Speaker 1: So those two maybe did go to heaven, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that Abraham, Moses and then we're in actual
Speaker 1: heaven with God. I think they were in Abraham's bosom,
Speaker 1: and when Christ died on the cross, that's when were
Speaker 1: able to be in heaven. That's what I personally believe, Okay,
Speaker 1: off of everything that I've studied, that's what I believe.
Speaker 2: But this is just a picture of what was going
Speaker 2: on here.
Speaker 1: And this is something we should definitely take note of
Speaker 1: because when you die, you're gonna be conscious, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have all five senses, and the angels come and
Speaker 1: get you immediately.
Speaker 2: You ain't got time to play.
Speaker 1: Let's see how long this is okay, cool, seventeen is
Speaker 1: going to be pretty short. Let's see what I have
Speaker 1: in my note section. And like I said, you guys
Speaker 1: don't have to believe like I believe. But this is
Speaker 1: just off of everything that I've studied. I've studied the cosmology,
Speaker 1: I've studied so many different things for a long time. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what Let's see what the my Okay, So
Speaker 1: the story contrasts the earthy life is what the my
Speaker 1: Bible notes says. The story contrasts the earthly life of
Speaker 1: a rich man and a poor man named Lazareth and
Speaker 1: the eternal destinies.
Speaker 2: It underscores the reality.
Speaker 1: Of heaven and hell the rich man. The rich man's
Speaker 1: neglect of Lazareth at his gate serves as a warning
Speaker 1: against indifference to the to the needs of others. The
Speaker 1: pre eminence of one's eternal state is highlighted. And besides
Speaker 1: all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us
Speaker 1: and you. The sufficiency of scripture. They have Moses, the
Speaker 1: prophets that let them listen to them. Okay, so that's see,
Speaker 1: that's that those teaching points that they have right here
Speaker 1: in this in this is kind of weak There's so
Speaker 1: much more that they could teach from that that that event.
Speaker 1: But let's check out some practical applications that we can
Speaker 1: apply to our life. Oh, hold on events, places, people,
Speaker 1: practical applications. So valiate, evaluate your use of resources. Are
Speaker 1: you using your time, talents, and treasures to further God's kingdom?
Speaker 1: Cultivate faithfulness and small tasks knowing that God's values, integrity,
Speaker 1: and stewardship reflect on your priorities. Are you serving God wholeheartedly?
Speaker 1: Are you divided in your loyalties, show compassion and generosity
Speaker 1: to those in need, recognizing the eternal impact of your actions,
Speaker 1: and trust in the authority and sufficiency of scripture for
Speaker 1: guidance and instruction. So yeah, I think it's very important.
Speaker 1: I kind of also would say to to understand the
Speaker 1: value of the time you have on this earth. That
Speaker 1: rich man when he went to sleep, he didn't know
Speaker 1: he was going to die. He was wearing his nice,
Speaker 1: fine linen robe and you know, probably laying in his
Speaker 1: beautiful bed and ah taking a deep breath, you know,
Speaker 1: able to Breathe falls asleep, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he wakes up and he's in hades.
Speaker 2: You see, he didn't repent.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we feel like we're gonna have all this time
Speaker 1: on earth to do whatever we want, and that's it's
Speaker 1: just not the way it works. We could be taken.
Speaker 1: We could be driving down the street and running too
Speaker 1: a diesel, a truck. You could die in an instant,
Speaker 1: especially with so much that's going on right now. It's
Speaker 1: so easy, you know. So I would suggest that you
Speaker 1: get right with.
Speaker 2: God now, you know.
Speaker 1: So, Okay, well kind of went through those. Let's see
Speaker 1: if there's any verses that connect to this. So Matthew
Speaker 1: six verse nineteen through twenty one, do not store up
Speaker 1: your self's treasures on earth, for where your treasure is there,
Speaker 1: your heart will be. Also Matthew six nineteen through twenty one,
Speaker 1: and then one tim at the six seventeenth through nineteen
Speaker 1: encourages the rich to be generous and destroy treasures for
Speaker 1: the coming age. And then James two verses fourteen through
Speaker 1: seventeen discusses the importance of faith being accompanied by action,
Speaker 1: particularly and caring for.
Speaker 2: Those in need faith coming. Yeah, you will know your
Speaker 2: faith by your works. Okay, so we got we got
Speaker 2: Luke seventeen. We could probably go over.
Speaker 1: We have about twenty minutes left, so we'll try to
Speaker 1: kind of go over this fairly quickly. So then, so
Speaker 1: this is Jesus warns of offenses. Then he said to
Speaker 1: his disciples, it is impossible that no offenses should come,
Speaker 1: but woe to him through whom they do come. It
Speaker 1: will be better for him if a millstone were hung
Speaker 1: around his neck and he were thrown into the sea,
Speaker 1: that he should offend one of these little ones. Take
Speaker 1: heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him,
Speaker 1: if he rep hence, forgive him. If he sins against
Speaker 1: you seven times in a day, and seven times in
Speaker 1: a day returns to you saying I repent, you shall
Speaker 1: forgive him. So Jesus emphasizes the importance of forgiveness even
Speaker 1: when it seems difficult. He instructs, if your brother sins,
Speaker 1: rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he
Speaker 1: sins against you seven times in a day and seven
Speaker 1: times returns say I repent, you must forgive him. This
Speaker 1: highlights the boundless nature of christ forgiveness. And then Jesus
Speaker 1: also warns his disciples about the seriousness of causing others
Speaker 1: to sin, especially little ones to stumble. He states it
Speaker 1: would be better for him to have a millston hung
Speaker 1: around his neck.
Speaker 2: He kind of went over that and topics themes.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's continue faith and duty Luke seventeen, verse five.
Speaker 1: And the apostles said to the Lord, increase our faith.
Speaker 1: So the apostles will say, to Lord, increased our faith.
Speaker 1: So the Lord said, if you have faith as a
Speaker 1: mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, be
Speaker 1: pulled by the roots and be planted in the sea,
Speaker 1: and it would obey you. And which of you, having
Speaker 1: a servant plowing your tending sheep, will say to him,
Speaker 1: will say, when he has come in from the field,
Speaker 1: come at once and sit down to eat. But will
Speaker 1: he not rather say to him, prepare something for my supper,
Speaker 1: and gird yourself and serve me until I have eaten
Speaker 1: and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink. Does
Speaker 1: he think you're that servant because he did the things
Speaker 1: that were commanded him? I think not so. Likewise, when
Speaker 1: you have done all these things which you have commanded
Speaker 1: and say we're unprofitable servants, we have done what was
Speaker 1: our duty to do. So. So this is in response
Speaker 1: to the apostles request to increase our faith, Jesus explains,
Speaker 1: if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
Speaker 1: you can say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and
Speaker 1: plant in the sea, and all lit obey you. This
Speaker 1: teaches us that even a small amount of genuine faith
Speaker 1: a company can accomplish great things. And then humility and service.
Speaker 1: Jesus uses the parable of the unworthy servants in Luke
Speaker 1: seventeen seven through ten to remind us that our service
Speaker 1: to God is our duty, not something for which we
Speaker 1: should expect special praise. We are to serve with humility,
Speaker 1: recognize that we are merely doing this, doing what is
Speaker 1: required of us. So definitely we have to have humility.
Speaker 2: And we're not trying to get the praise.
Speaker 1: We always have to say all glory to God, you know,
Speaker 1: all praise to God. Let's see, now we're at Luke seventeen,
Speaker 1: verse eleven. Now it happened as he went to Jerus
Speaker 1: that he passed through the midst of Samaria, Samaria and Galilee.
Speaker 1: Then he entered a certain village. There he met ten
Speaker 1: men who were lepers, who stood far off. They lifted
Speaker 1: up the voice and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Speaker 1: So when he saw them, he said to them, go
Speaker 1: show yourself to the priest. And so it was that
Speaker 1: they went, and they were cleansed, and all of them
Speaker 1: when he saw that, he was all of them. When
Speaker 1: he saw he was healed, returned with the loud voice,
Speaker 1: glorifying God, and fell down at his face and feet,
Speaker 1: giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus
Speaker 1: answered and said, were there not ten cleansed? But where
Speaker 1: are the nine? Where they are not found? Any return
Speaker 1: to give glory to God. Accept this foreigner. And he
Speaker 1: said to him, arise, go your way. Your faith has
Speaker 1: made you well. So it looks like it looks like uh,
Speaker 1: he healed ten, and only the Samaritan came over, which
Speaker 1: obviously the Samaritan are enemies of the Israelites. And here
Speaker 1: the Lepers, obviously, as I kind of went over before that.
Speaker 1: Lepers they've never been touched, you know, I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been touched, but after they caught leprosy, nobody touched them.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's a it's a it's a huge thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They don't get human touched, they don't get hugs, so
Speaker 1: it's huge for Jesus to heal them of this, and
Speaker 1: it looks like only one appreciated it is. What's kind
Speaker 1: of showing you here? Let me see what the what
Speaker 1: it's about causing the coming of the kingdom, the days
Speaker 1: of the days, and no where is it? Okay?
Speaker 2: So the lepers that.
Speaker 1: Were mentioned were healed by Jesus, but only one of
Speaker 1: Samaritany returns to gift thanks. The Greek term for leper
Speaker 1: is lepery, referring to those afflicted with his skin disease.
Speaker 2: Can I know that?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll continue, got like another ten minutes left.
Speaker 2: The coming of the kingdom. Now.
Speaker 1: When he was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God would come, he answered them and said, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor nor
Speaker 1: will they say see here or see there, For indeed
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God is within you. Then he said
Speaker 1: to his disciples, the days will come when you desire
Speaker 1: to see one of the days of the Son of Man,
Speaker 1: and you will not see it, And they will say
Speaker 1: to you look here or look there. Do not go
Speaker 1: after them or follow them. For as the lightning that
Speaker 1: flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the
Speaker 1: other part under heaven. So also will the Sun of
Speaker 1: Man be in his day, But first he must suffer
Speaker 1: many things and be rejected by this generation. And as
Speaker 1: it was in the days of Noah, so it'll be
Speaker 1: in the days of the Sun of Man. They ate,
Speaker 1: they drank, they married, wives, they were given in marriage,
Speaker 1: until the day that Noah entered the ark and the
Speaker 1: flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, as in the
Speaker 1: days of Lot, they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold,
Speaker 1: they planted, they built, But on the day that Lot
Speaker 1: went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from
Speaker 1: heaven and destroyed them all. Even so it'll be in
Speaker 1: the day when the Sun of Man is revealed.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 1: This portion, obviously, if you look in the in the
Speaker 1: Book of Matthew, it talks about it'll be like the
Speaker 1: days of Noah. There's more to that, this portion though,
Speaker 1: where it says, look when the Sun of Man, it'll say,
Speaker 1: as it is in the days of Noah, it'll also
Speaker 1: be in the days of the Sun of Men. So
Speaker 1: understand that in the end times, whether you're a futurist,
Speaker 1: a predtoricist, or you think that this already happened. If
Speaker 1: you're a Satan's little season, I believe that this is
Speaker 1: a future event. It's gonna be like the days of Noah. Okay,
Speaker 1: days of Noah was crazy, filled with violence. You know,
Speaker 1: they had the angels having sex with women, have a nepheline.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of stuff going on. Now.
Speaker 1: Is Jesus saying here that that there's gonna be nepheline,
Speaker 1: you know, in the end times. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he's going that far, but some people do believe that.
Speaker 1: But he is definitely saying that people are gonna be eating, drinking, marrying,
Speaker 1: giving in marriage. Life is gonna be looking like you know,
Speaker 1: people are gonna be living life like not even thinking
Speaker 1: about Jesus. You know a lot of people are doing
Speaker 1: that now. A lot of people don't believe in Jesus, don't.
Speaker 2: Believe in God.
Speaker 1: But he's saying, just like the days of Noah, when
Speaker 1: the flood came, people were eating, getting married. Obviously, there
Speaker 1: was a lot going on back then of sin and
Speaker 1: the flood.
Speaker 2: Came and destroyed them all. Likewise, in the days a
Speaker 2: lot they.
Speaker 1: Were eating, they were drinking, they bought, they sold, they planted,
Speaker 1: they built in Sodomigamura. It was a flourishing city, right,
Speaker 1: so much so that's why a Lot's wife wanted to
Speaker 1: go back. She wanted to go back to the world. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the same exact thing. And then fire came and
Speaker 1: brimstone came from heaven to destroy them all. So it
Speaker 1: will be in the day when the Sun and Man
Speaker 1: is revealed. So this is a you know, not going
Speaker 1: to any of my notes. I mean, personally, I think
Speaker 1: that we should be prepared for God's for when Jesus
Speaker 1: comes back. I know some of you guys think it's
Speaker 1: Satan's little season and all that stuff, Okay, and there's
Speaker 1: different beliefs of eschatology, but I still believe that Jesus
Speaker 1: is coming back. It's a future event. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think that Jesus already came back. That's personally what I believe.
Speaker 1: Don't be mad at me, don't say you know, but personally,
Speaker 1: I know that there's different beliefs in eschatology, and I
Speaker 1: don't like to push anybody one way or another, but
Speaker 1: I do believe it's a future event, and I do
Speaker 1: believe that we should be prepared. Okay, no matter what
Speaker 1: we should be prepared. It says in that day he
Speaker 1: was on the housetop and his goods or in the house.
Speaker 1: Let him not come down.
Speaker 2: To take them away.
Speaker 1: And likewise the one who is in the field, let
Speaker 1: him not turn back. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever seeks to
Speaker 1: save his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life
Speaker 1: will preserve it. And I tell you in the night
Speaker 1: that there will be two men in one bed. The
Speaker 1: one will be taken and the other one will be left.
Speaker 1: The two women will be grinding together. The one will
Speaker 1: be taken and the other left. Two men will be
Speaker 1: in the field. The one will be taken.
Speaker 2: And the other left.
Speaker 1: And they answered and said to him where Lord, And
Speaker 1: he said to him, whether the body is, their egles
Speaker 1: will be gathered together. Where the body is the eagles see.
Speaker 1: So some people would say that this is the rapture, right,
Speaker 1: That's why I said there's different eschatology beliefs. Some people
Speaker 1: would believe that this would be the rapture.
Speaker 2: Of the church.
Speaker 1: And some people believe that when Jesus comes back, then
Speaker 1: that's when.
Speaker 2: People get raptured.
Speaker 1: Right, So that would be like a post millennial belief.
Speaker 2: Some people believe in.
Speaker 1: Pre rapture, which would be before the tribulation. Some people
Speaker 1: believe it's a seven year tribulation three and a half
Speaker 1: years a piece. The Antichist comes, does the abomination of desolation,
Speaker 1: it causes the Great Tribulation to happen, and they believe
Speaker 1: that there's a post rapture, a mid rapture.
Speaker 2: Or a post rapture.
Speaker 1: Sorry, there's a pre rapture, which would be before the
Speaker 1: seven years, right. So that's one eschatology that would be
Speaker 1: more of a dispensationless view There's other ones that are
Speaker 1: like predicists that believe that everything happened at seventy a d.
Speaker 1: And that we're more in revelation fifteen about now sixteen
Speaker 1: maybe you know. So there's just different viewpoints. But what
Speaker 1: I would tell you is to study all of them
Speaker 1: and make sure that you make sure that somebody when
Speaker 1: they tell you some kind of end times, that they
Speaker 1: can tell you chapter and verse of every single thing
Speaker 1: that they believe, and that way it leads you and
Speaker 1: guides you into what's true biblically instead of just going
Speaker 1: what man think you know, because if you just listen
Speaker 1: to man and never study it for yourself, then you're
Speaker 1: gonna be you could be leading into something I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think that it is good. For example, some
Speaker 1: people believe like the next step is gonna be the rapture,
Speaker 1: so they might kind of be off the gas pedal
Speaker 1: a little bit saying, Hey, I'm I'm just gonna wait
Speaker 1: for the rapture to happen.
Speaker 2: And let's say that the rapture doesn't happen until, you know,
Speaker 2: until Jesus calls you at the end, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to go through the tribulation and you're not gonna be prepared, right,
Speaker 2: So we have to make sure that we study all
Speaker 2: that stuff and understand it the best.
Speaker 1: So when I get to that portion, I will do
Speaker 1: my best to explain it, and I will tell you. You know,
Speaker 1: I will tell you from a point of a teacher
Speaker 1: and not of a this is what you should believe.
Speaker 1: This is what's true, because I don't care what anybody says. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't care what any pastor tells you. They don't
Speaker 1: know one hundred percent that they're correct. They might think
Speaker 1: they're correct by everything they've learned from their pastor and
Speaker 1: from their teachers, but I'm gonna tell you something right now,
Speaker 1: nobody knows except the Father in heaven. Okay, no one
Speaker 1: knows the time of the hour besides the Father in heaven,
Speaker 1: and Jesus is obviously in heaven now, so Jesus would
Speaker 1: know now. But at the time that Jesus is on.
Speaker 2: The earth, he said that no one knows what the Father,
Speaker 2: So nobody knows. The people could tell you all day
Speaker 2: long they know exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They could have these charts, they can have these timelines,
Speaker 1: they can have all these different things they're trying to
Speaker 1: tell you. But I'll tell you right now from everything
Speaker 1: that I've studied everybody I had on my show, everybody
Speaker 1: cannot go chapter and verse exactly and show you exactly
Speaker 1: the verse after verse to tell you this is what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. First sure, one hundred percent what it is
Speaker 1: is it's all theories and they're just interpretation of what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in the end times. Okay, there is,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see. There's debates on this type of stuff
Speaker 1: all the time. So as a teacher, it's important for
Speaker 1: me to tell you guys to kind of be open
Speaker 1: with eschatology. Study it and find out exactly what you feel,
Speaker 1: you know, what the Holy Spirit shows you and guides you. Okay,
Speaker 1: just just kind of something I want to lay out
Speaker 1: for you, because I do hear a lot of people
Speaker 1: try to try to act like they you know, try
Speaker 1: to act like they know. But one thing is for
Speaker 1: sure what Jesus is saying here. Jesus compares the coming
Speaker 1: of the Sun and Man to the days of Noah
Speaker 1: and a Lot when the people were unaware of impending
Speaker 1: judgment until it was too late. It's he emphasizes the
Speaker 1: suddenness and unexpected nature of his return. You see, we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta be prepared, Okay, we gotta be prepared,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Okay, So how do you get prepared? Well,
Speaker 1: we have to start reading the Bible. We have to
Speaker 1: start studying the Word, which you guys are doing now.
Speaker 1: You're studying it with me, right, So this is very important.
Speaker 1: Let's see if there's anything else I'm leaving out the coming. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's another part I could read for you guys, the
Speaker 1: coming of the Kingdom. Of coming of the Kingdom. Jesus
Speaker 1: tells the Pharisees the Kingdom of God is not coming
Speaker 1: with signs to be observed, nor will people say, look here,
Speaker 1: it is there.
Speaker 2: It is for you.
Speaker 1: See, the Kingdom of God is your myst This teaches
Speaker 1: that God's Kingdom is a present reality, not just a
Speaker 1: future hope. So a lot of them, like I said,
Speaker 1: are looking for signs, but Jesus is already there. The
Speaker 1: Kingdom is there. The Kingdom of God is in the
Speaker 1: flesh right there with them, and they just don't understand it.
Speaker 1: They just can't see it because their pride gets in
Speaker 1: their way, their lawlessness, their religion gets in the way
Speaker 1: of them actually seeing who the true Messiah was. If
Speaker 1: you were like Satan's little seasoned believer, you would believe
Speaker 1: that this is just saying that people are getting like
Speaker 1: kidnapped right here. I believe that's what they believe. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you one hundred percent, but I
Speaker 1: think people I've heard people teach on that before, that
Speaker 1: this portion right here Luke seventeen thirty one through thirty
Speaker 1: five is.
Speaker 2: People getting kidnapped.
Speaker 1: Okay, So next week on Sunday service, we will be
Speaker 1: in Luke eighteen. So awesome, you know, and I'll definitely
Speaker 1: do some good studying on that.
Speaker 2: I got some pretty good studying down.
Speaker 1: I try to get pretty dense with the with the
Speaker 1: luke this time. Let's see if I have any practical
Speaker 1: applications you guys could could put towards your life with this.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go ahead and stop the screen share
Speaker 1: and practical forget our practice forgiveness. Make it conscious effort
Speaker 1: to forgive those who wrong you, reflecting the forgiveness you
Speaker 1: have received from Christ. Cultivate faith. Nurture your faith through prayer,
Speaker 1: reading scripture, and trusting God in all circumstances, no matter
Speaker 1: how small your faith may seem. Yeah, so faith is
Speaker 1: so important, you know, And how do you build faith?
Speaker 1: Come it by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Speaker 1: Serve with humility, approach your service to God and others
Speaker 1: with a humble heart, recognizing that as a privilege to serve,
Speaker 1: and then live with kingdom awareness. Be mindful of God's
Speaker 1: presence and work in your life and the world around you,
Speaker 1: living as a citizen of His kingdom.
Speaker 2: And then let's see forgiveness.
Speaker 1: You could go to Matthew eighteen twenty one through twenty
Speaker 1: two and a Pheasans four thirty two versus about faith.
Speaker 1: You can go to Hebrews eleven one, Matthew seventeen twenty.
Speaker 1: If you want to write those down humility and service,
Speaker 1: go to Philippians two, verses three through seven and Mark
Speaker 1: ten forty five. And then Kingdom of God go to
Speaker 1: Romans fourteen seventeen and Matthew six thirty three.
Speaker 2: So there we go.
Speaker 1: So what a great study. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I got some pretty good study and done this week
Speaker 1: for this show, so be expecting some some good studies
Speaker 1: for next week as well. And then Sunday service, we're
Speaker 1: going to be you know, still in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1: And if you made it all the way to the end,
Speaker 1: like I always ask, comment on Spotify, you know, and
Speaker 1: let me know that you made it to the end,
Speaker 1: and let me know what you guys think about the
Speaker 1: Bible studies so far. I appreciate everybody that's listening. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 2: But like we always do, we end this in prayer.
Speaker 1: So, Father God, in the name of Jesus and the
Speaker 1: name we asure with him of Siock, we appreciate everything
Speaker 1: you do for us.
Speaker 2: Lord, thank you for this.
Speaker 1: Time of you know, reading your word. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that we went over today, and you know,
Speaker 1: to read Luke sixteen and to see that there's you know.
Speaker 2: What hell actually looks like and feels like.
Speaker 1: You know, it should definitely put just assist Lord with
Speaker 1: people to understand how important it is to serve you, Lord,
Speaker 1: to to become a disciple for you, and how important
Speaker 1: it is to not end up in hell, or not
Speaker 1: have your family members end up in Hell or any
Speaker 1: of your people that you know around you.
Speaker 2: Just do your help people to do their very.
Speaker 1: Best to plant seeds so that you can make them grow.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: And we know that we have to get our stuff
Speaker 1: together first before.
Speaker 2: We can even disciples.
Speaker 1: So help us to get our stuff together and anything
Speaker 1: that we need to get out of our life that's
Speaker 1: preventing us from being a disciple for you, assist us
Speaker 1: in doing that. And we know sometimes it takes a
Speaker 1: little while for us to shed all those things, those
Speaker 1: worldly things, but assist the people that are listening and
Speaker 1: doing so.
Speaker 2: And we know that we've excuse me, We know that the.
Speaker 1: We know that the time is now, Lord, and I
Speaker 1: just asked that you assist people that you know, if
Speaker 1: there's alcohol, there's anything preventing them from.
Speaker 2: Committing to you.
Speaker 1: Lord, if you could slowly just shed those away, or
Speaker 1: do it abruptly. Lord, I asked that you break those
Speaker 1: chains in Jesus's name and help everybody that's listening. And
Speaker 1: thank you, Lord for everything you do for us. I
Speaker 1: love you so much in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you guys, Thank you for tuning in once again.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys tuning in and I will see
Speaker 1: you guys next week.
Speaker 2: God bless you