Oct. 1, 2024

Purify Ourselves?

Purify Ourselves?

A sermon review and discussion about purity and sin in the life of a believer

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A sermon review and discussion about purity and sin in the life of a believer

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast Making Theology Central. I have been

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avoiding the word good. If you've been listening to the podcast,

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I've avoided saying good evening, good morning, I've just said welcome.

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I've avoided it because nothing has been very good. We

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have had, you know, controversy, We've had sin, We've had scandal.

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We've had everyone offer an opinion about the so called

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scandal and the so called sin. We've had people give

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details about the sin, and then people offer opinions about

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the details, and I have said that the entire situation

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there is nothing good about it. I've avoided mentioning any names.

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And I've said, Okay, if we're going to talk about

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scandal and sin, well let's really dig in and talk

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about sin, and talk about Christianity and talk about the

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reality of sin, and let's really really try to look

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at this from a much deeper theological perspective. And that

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is what we have done. And to be honest, there's

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been nothing good about any of the discussion. It has

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led to frustration, confusing. It's been confusion. It's been confusing.

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I have been just it's been confounding, it's been complicated,

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it's been irritating. I've made the jokes that this entire

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discussion is not going to drive me to drinking, It's

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going to drive me directly to rehab because I'm going

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to need help overcoming well, my alcoholism as a result

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of it. That is a joke. I don't drink, but

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that's what I have felt we've done, even a little

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bit of acting.

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Right.

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Hey, this is Patrol one, come in headquarters. Remember that

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entire thing that I've repeated now countless times. We've had

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some very interesting discussions, and I guess we're going to

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add to that well in just a few minutes. But

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in the meantime, welcome everyone. It is Tuesday, October the first,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently nine fifty four am

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Central Time, and I am coming to you live from

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the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas,

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October the first. Can you even wrap your mind around that?

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I mean, I remember December twenty twenty three, just trying

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to go, well, okay, is the podcast even going to

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be here? Is it going to last? What's going to

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happen to the church? There was so many unknowns and

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now here we are. We've arrived at October the first,

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twenty twenty four. The year is I mean, before we

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know it, the year is going to be over. And

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I'm there's still a lot of unknowns as far as

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so many of those questions I was asking in December

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of twenty twenty three. But here we are, and we

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have found ourselves again one of them. One of my

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favorite things about this podcast is so how it just

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kind of takes a life of its own, Like the

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podcast just kind of leads me to wherever we are.

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I never I never know where we're going to end up, right,

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I know everyone else is like, Okay, I'm gonna plan

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this out, we're going to talk about this, We're going

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to talk about this, And for this podcast, it's we

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just we don't know where we're going to end up

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from day to day, week to week, month to month.

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Sometimes we find ourselves discussing something that goes on for weeks.

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Maybe sometimes we find ourselves discussing something that only last

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one episode. But it's always interesting. It's you know, I

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don't know. I hope you find it to be interesting.

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It's there's a lot of unknown I don't know what's

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going to happen, and I just know that in this

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particular situation, what we've been talking about, I can't. It

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was out kind of out of my control. I wasn't

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ever thinking this is what we would be discussing at

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the end of you know, as we reach October twenty

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twenty four, I would have probably predicted other subjects to

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be what we were talking about. But things happen, and

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I do feel that I have handled it, I think

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in a somewhat interesting way, right. I mean, I've watched

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countless YouTube videos and how they've handled it, and it's

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all about did you hear it? Here's this information, and

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here's this information, and this is the sin what the

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man was committing. However, the man is not admitting to this.

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Well I know he's doing it anyway, or I know

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he did it. And there's speculation, accusation, judgment, it's a

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little bit of gossip, it's a little bit of slander.

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It's just a home just everything about it to me

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is wrong. I don't I don't think any Look, whatever

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sin you're condemning, well and our condemning of the sin.

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If we're committing sin while condemning sin, Are we any

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better than the people who sinned? I mean, I think

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Christians have to how we handle sin. So what I

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decided to do is, yes, there's this scandal, Yes sin

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was involved. Okay, let's just look at ourselves. Let's look

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at ourselves. Let's look at the reality of sin and

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the life of Christians, and let's talk about it because

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it's a very important subject. So we have talked about that,

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and we've established some things that I just keep repeating

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over and over and over, and that is this you

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and I as a Christian, right, these are just basic

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facts I'm being dogmatic about. There is no compromising with

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these facts. You and I as a Christian, we cannot

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keep the law of God. We cannot keep the law

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of God. To keep the Law of God means you

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would have to keep it perfectly internally and externally, and

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I can demonstrate it within seconds. God says to be

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holy as he is holy. You have never been holy

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as He is holy. Therefore you are not keeping the law.

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And I could just add a their verses to it,

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and you would have to admit I cannot keep the law.

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I cannot. And as a result, because we cannot keep

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the law. You and I are in a perpetual state

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of sin. We are in a perpetual state of sin.

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And the Early Church understood this because even in their

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worship services, many of their liturgical their liturgical structure, would

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call somewhere at the beginning of their worship service to

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offer up a general confession. It would read something like this,

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Here is one, most merciful God, we confess that we

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have sinned against You and thought word. Indeed, by what

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we have done and by what we have left undone,

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we have not loved You with our whole heart. We

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have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. We are truly sorry,

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and we humbly repent for the sake of your son,

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Jesus Christ. Have mercy on us and forgive us. The

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Early Church understood that every time we come together to worship,

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it's a bunch of sinners coming together because we are

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in a perpetual state of sin. We have failed to

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do what God has called us to do. We have sinned,

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and what we do and what we leave undone, we

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are sinners and thought word indeed, internally externally we are

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in a perpetual state of sin. So if we are

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all in a perpetual state of sin. Well, I guess

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you can say that sin is worse than my sin.

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But while you're condemning that sin as being worse than

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your sin, you're still a sinner. So how do we

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handle this? So we've asked this question. I promoted I

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told you about a book, Six Secrets of the Christian Life.

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We've looked at some of their so called secrets and

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how they're trying to address the reality of sin. It

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was confounding, it was confusing, it was I mean, I mean,

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we still need to work on that book. We've done

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a lot of work. On Sunday, we spent two hours

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looking at sin in the Life of a Christian. We

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went through how the Church throughout church history has tried

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to handle this reality and look at all the different

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philological systems and their approach. We've done so much. We

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have done so much. We still need to do some

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more work on Romans Chapter eight. We're gonna look at

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how throughout church history, how the Church has handled the

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Christian and its relationship to the law. There's so much

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we still need to do. But in the midst of

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all of this, trying to answer these questions and deal

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with this reality. So let me state it again just

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to be clear. No, Christians, we cannot keep the Law

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of God. Therefore we are in a perpetual state of sin.

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We are in a perpetual state of sin. Now I've

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added more to those two dogmatic facts, but I won't

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go beyond that right now. I summarize them again on Sunday,

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and I'll be somezing them more as we move forward.

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But those are just the two. I mean, that's the

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starting point. You cannot keep the law. You're in a

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perpetual state of sin. And I know the majority of

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Christianity deny even though they may say sometimes pay lip

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service to it, they almost deny it when they really

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when you start listening to their teaching, because the basic

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Christian teaching is no, no, no, no no. When you

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become a Christian, you've become a new creature. Old things

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are passed away, all things have become new. You have

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been completely transformed, You've been completely renewed. You have a

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new heart, you have a new mind, you have a

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new spirit, you have a new everything. Everything is new. Okay,

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Well then I should not sin. Well, I mean, you're

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still gonna sin, Well, then where does sin come from?

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And we've been asking all of these questions. So in

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the midst of all of that, okay, and that's not

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even a great review, that's not even a great summary.

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But there's been I mean, you're talking hours and hours

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and hours of this discussion. So I just that's kind

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of a partial summary, a partial redem But in the

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midst of all of that, I received an email. What

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day did I receive this email? I received this email.

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Let me go to it. I received this email on

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September the twenty second, at seven thirty six am Central time,

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September the twenty second. So it's been a while since

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I received this email, and since that time, we've talked

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about so many different facets of all of this. But

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here's the email. This is the sermon you should review. Okay.

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Then it says the topic follows right on the heels

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of your Second Corinthians five seventeen discussion. The pastor says

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a lot and a short sermon about holiness in this life.

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He goes right down the line, all right right down

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the line. I'm okay. I always think of a musical reference,

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but I won't go there. I won't go there, all right.

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So I'm like, okay, now, when someone says this is

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the sermon you should review, now, I know some of

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you will send me those emails, but I know you

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because you've emailed me enough, and I know that what

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you're saying is you should review this sermon because it's

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going to be fun to listen to you have an

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utter completely total nervous breakdown live on the air. You're

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utterly going to lose your mind, and I'm going to

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have my popcorn and my coke as I listen. Some

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of you, I know you do that because well we

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know what happens, all right. And this particular case, I

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don't think this is someone messing with me. I don't

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think this is someone like this is the one you

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should review. Maybe they believe this is a kind of

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a perfect continuation of our discussion on Tewod Corinthians five seventeen,

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which again I think is one of the most abused

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and misinterpreted passages and all of the Bible. So I

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don't really Again, when we do reviews, we know, Klaus,

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I don't listen to them first. Now in this particular case,

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as with I try to get better at doing this

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I do listen at the beginning to see what the

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sound quality is like. In this particular sermon, there's about

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three minutes and thirty seconds where someone forgot to turn

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the volume up. Now I could go in and try

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to artificially increase that part, so but I didn't bother

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doing all of that. What we did is the first

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three minutes is kind of like, Hey, thank you for

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inviting me to this conference. You people are wonderful, this

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is great. Tell a little joke, just you're kind of

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your typical ice breaking that a lot of people will

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do in a conference setting. This is at some kind

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of conference or camp meeting, And about three minutes in

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the volume starts going up and then it goes way up.

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So we're gonna come in right when he's about to

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tell everyone to take their Bibles and open to First John.

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I believe it's chapter three, and well, I don't know

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if this is where he's going. I don't know if

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this is what he's going to focus on. But when

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he started reading the scripture, one phrase jumped out at me,

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and so I'm definitely gonna be focused in on that.

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we're gonna just see where this goes. We got about

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thirty minutes of sermon to review, maybe that maybe twenty

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nine minutes. You know, you get to the end. Typically

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a pastor will summarize what they've already said and then

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they'll go into their prayer. So usually we have about

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really won't add anything to the review. So we possibly

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have only about twenty five minutes of sermon, So maybe

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we can make it through this in one episode. I definitely,

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I definitely that's the goal. We're just gonna get the

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basic idea. Let me remind you one of the things

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I've been asking you to do, and we've talked about this,

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is to start looking up random sermons about a new heart,

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a new mind, a new spear, a new nature, and

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new I knew whatever, because we've realized that Christianity has

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no agreement or even there's not even a standard way

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of understanding. Wait, so do I have a new heart

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went through all of that, so hopefully you're continuing to

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do that. I don't know if this is going to

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I don't know what's getting ready to happen. But someone

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emailed me said, this is the sermon I should review.

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All right now, I always get nervous, So let me

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just state this. If you ever send me a sermon

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to review, you just know that you may think it's

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wonderful and great. I may criticize the sermon. That's not

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me criticizing you. If you like the sermon wonderful, you

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can listen to whatever you want. I don't really It

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doesn't bother me in any way, shape or form. I

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don't tell people what to listen to. I don't tell

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people what not to listen to. I tell people to

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listen to everything. That's one of the whole reasons we're

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doing the sermon's two point oh sermon app you know challenge.

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I'm trying to get people to listen to all kinds

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of sermons, whether I agree or disagree. But when I review,

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I'm off for going to I'm obviously offering my thoughts,

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my opinion, and my perspective. Some people still don't understand

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when I criticize a sermon, it's not me necessarily saying, hey,

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that's wrong, and I'm right. It's me saying, okay, that's

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their hypothesis. All right, here's my hypothesis. I don't agree

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with theirs. Here's mine, and then you, the listener, you

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can choose whichever one you want to believe. I think

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that that's a I think it's a benefit to you

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the listener. When I do a sermon review, well, first,

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it's not a rehearsed thing, so I didn't go find

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a sermon that I don't like and I can just

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criticize it. I'm listening to a sermon that I've never

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heard before in real time, reacting to it in real time,

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and a lot of times what happens is the sermon

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not taking anything out of context. You get to hear

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their full, their full perspective, their full hypotheses, there suggested interpretation,

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you get to hear mine, and then you get to

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make your own decision. So that's what's getting ready to

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happen here. I don't know if I'm going to agree

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and almost no one agrees with my interpretation of Second

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Corinthians five seventeen. Well, then, I don't know where this

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Be patient. At the beginning, the volume will be low,

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but it will immediately start increasing and then it should

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be perfectly okay. So the part where the volume is down,

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I'm going to try not to come back in because

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it's going to be such a wild their volume down

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to get it past that so that everything will even out.

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the source material. And for some really weird reason, churches

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I don't know why. But all right, here we go.

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Are you ready.

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I don't know what to expect.

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I don't know where this is going to go, but

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for the next you know a little bit, sit back

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and we're gonna see where we're going together. All right,

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Go today, First, Yoahn, chapter number three, we're gonna begin reading.

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of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we

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should be called the sons of God. Therefore the world

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knoweth us not because it knew him, not beloved. Now

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are we the sons of God? And it does not

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yet appear what we shall be. But we know that

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when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for

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we shall see him as he is. And every man

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that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as

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Thank you, you could be seated. I do appreciate you standing first.

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John has been referred to as the Fellowship Epistle talks

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about the fellowship that we have one with another and

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the fellowship that we have with God. And of course

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that fellowship and the source of that is due to

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the relationship with Jesus Christ. And we know John, and

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the truth between light and darkness, and truth versus error,

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and sinners and how they can be saved, but also

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saints and how they deal with sin, and so he

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the volume is kind of it may go a little higher.

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out at me, all right, so he read First John

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chapter three. I was gonna say, first Corinthians, first John,

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chapter three, and I'm going to make at least two

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very important introductory remarks here as we look at this.

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First the phrase that jumped out at me, Let me

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read it. Let's see if you can catch it, all right,

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First John, chapter three, Verse one, Behold what manner of

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love the Father bestowed on us that we should be

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called the children of God. Therefore the world does not

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know us because it did not know him beloved. Now

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we are the children of God, and it has not

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yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know

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that when he is revealed, we shall be like him,

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for we shall see him as he is. And everyone

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who has this hope in him purifies himself just as

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he is pure. The phrase was purify himself, purify himself. Now,

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and all of our discussion about Christians and sin, we've

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heard over and over in sermon after sermon after sermon

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after sermon after sermon, it is God who changes us.

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makes us holy. It's a work of God. God is

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doing it. God is doing it. And that we have

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been told that instantaneously at conversion we became a new creature.

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all things are passed away and all things have become new,

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because that means I have been completely purified. We have

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been told you get a new heart. You've been told

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you get a new nature. And all of that happens

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at the moment of conversion. And then we've also been

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told we have the power of the Holy Spirit in

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us to make us holy. Now, I don't know why

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it needs to make us holy. If I already have

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a new heart and a new nature and I'm a

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new creature, then what is he purifying? But then we're

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but the key here is purify yourself. Now, some say, well,

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you're purifying yourself, but you're doing it through the power

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of God. Again, if it's the power of God helping

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me purify myself, you think, then I should be able

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to purify myself in about one point two seconds, since

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I'm doing it via the power of God, which is omnipotent.

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what I'm really confused about is this Again, we talked

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about it so much. Christians talk out of both sides

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of their mouth. Well, you're a new creature. Old things

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are passed away, all things have become new. All right,

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then the work it's over, it's done. I'm perfect. Well no, no, no, no, no, no,

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you're a new creature. Old is gone, everything is new,

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but you're not perfect. Well, if I'm not perfect, that

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sounds like the old is still there. So is the

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old gone? And is everything new? Well, it's true in

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your nature. Well, if it's true in my nature, doesn't

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everything flow from my nature? So but once you start

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asking questions, it just gets more confusing. Well, in this

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particular case, it's like, no, you purify yourself, So I'm

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purifying myself. So that's the first thing that jumped out. Second,

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he called this a fellowship epistle, I think is how

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he stated it. Now let me make it very clear.

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I believe First Jean and I stand again opposed to

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almost the majority of Christianity. I believe First John needs

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to be understood as a polemic against gnosticism. This is

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more about gnosticism than it is anything else. I know

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people have done some strange things with First John, but

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I stand my ground on it being a polemic against gnosticism,

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and think it needs to be understood. There So number one,

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to purify yourself. That's the phrase. Number two the purpose,

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I believe is a polemic against gnosticism more than it's

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anything else. Let's see what else he says in his

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introductory comments.

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He sings down and he also dealt with a great

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love that God has for his children. First John said this,

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He said, beloved, now are we the sons of God?

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How did that happen? He said, Behold what manner of

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love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should

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be called the sons of God. I've been called a

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lot of things, and you probably have too. But God

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calls me his son.

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If you are.

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Saved by the grace of God, you have a relationship

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with the God of Heaven.

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The Bible said, but my God shall supply.

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All your need according to his richest in glory by

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Christ Jesus.

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And I have been old but young. But now I'm.

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Old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor

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his seed begging bread. That's why we can guarantee no

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matter what happens in November, I don't care if gravy

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goes to five daughters assawt. If you are saved by

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the grace of God and you have a relationship with

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God through Jesus Christ, Praise God, mark her down.

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You'll have what you need.

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If there's one cracker left in your county, you'll be

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nibbling on one corner. If you've got a relationship with

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God and just to be called a child of God.

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Okay, now that's a bold claim. If you're a Christian,

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You're always going to have what you need. All right now,

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I'm going to just look up statistics here.

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To see how do I want to look this up? Oh,

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let's see, I'm looking up some.

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Statistics right here and see what we can find. I've

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looked these up before. Approximately nine thousand people die each

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day from hunger, related causes worldwide. According to recent estimates

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by organizations such as United Nations and the World Food Program,

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hunger is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths,

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particularly in regions facing poverty, conflict, and natural disasters. Nine

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thousand people die every single day for hunger related issue.

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Nine thousand people. Now, I know Christians love to say

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a Christian will never that will never happen to a Christian.

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Are you telling me nine thousand people die every day

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and none of them are saved. Christians will never never

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do that because God will always provide what you need. Now,

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I know, whenever I bring this up, Christians get mad

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at me. They push back, they get angry, they get upset.

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But I'm just saying, nine thousand people die every single day,

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every single day. Yesterday was you just start from. Yesterday

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was Monday, I believe you. Today's Tuesday. I don't even

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know what day of the week it is anymore. Yesterday

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was Monday. Nine thousand people died on Monday. Nine thousand

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people die today. And I know it's an average. So

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that's not exactly the way it works, because you know,

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are but an average nine thousand people die every single

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day I just want you to just wrap your mind

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around that from hung all right now. I don't want

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to get sidetracked, and we follow that, but I just

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want you just to consider that, all right when you're

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00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.960
walking around saying, Hey, if you are a Christian, I

464
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.559
don't care how much things cost, you will have food,

465
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You will have what you need.

466
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All right.

467
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You wrap your mind around that.

468
00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:37.200
It's a blessing in itself. That's why we say brother

469
00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.160
and sister around here. We have a relationship one with

470
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.279
another because we have a relationship with him. And what

471
00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.240
an honor it is to be called a child of God.

472
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The God of the universe calls us his child. What

473
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.000
a great opportunity that we have to be able to

474
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:56.880
serve God because we are his children.

475
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We can cry Abba Father.

476
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:01.839
I look at chapter number and verse number thirteen when

477
00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.680
it's referring to our relationship. I write it to you, fathers,

478
00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.000
because you have known him. That is from the beginning.

479
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:09.000
I write it to you, young men, because you have

480
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.000
overcome the wicked one. I writed to you little children,

481
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:15.839
because you have known the Father. I have written under you, fathers,

482
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.440
because you have known him. That is from the beginning.

483
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.960
I have written unto you, young men, because you are

484
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:23.720
strong and the Word of God abideth in you, and you.

485
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:25.920
Have overcome the wicked one.

486
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:28.640
And the reason we can do that is because we

487
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:32.559
have a relationship with God. We can cry have a

488
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.680
father that are to help us. There's no probation period.

489
00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:38.920
When an individual has saved, there's something happens to you.

490
00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:44.559
Somebody said the thirty things happen to you instantaneously, immediately

491
00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:47.799
and eternally when you are saved by the grace of God,

492
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:51.119
and one of those things is adoption. You become part

493
00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:54.279
of the family of God. You are son placed. And

494
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so if you have this hope, we have a hope

495
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.519
this morning, and his name is Jesus. Christ said, thank

496
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God for that. And biblical hope is an expectation. It's

497
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:06.480
not somebody saying, well, I hope I'm saved and I

498
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:07.440
might be saved.

499
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.640
There's a bunch of three legged rabbits running.

500
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:11.920
Around of because people have cut one of the futs off,

501
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.160
talking around the lucky rabbits for it, trying to be lucky.

502
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.240
Hey, we don't need luck, Praise God. We've got the

503
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.119
Lord Amham.

504
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.640
And that's why that we know that we're saved, and

505
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.480
I'm not trying to be saved. I am saved with

506
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:25.599
that a doubt. I'm in him and He's in me.

507
00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.359
And if you are saved, you have a relationship with God.

508
00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:32.799
And we need to understand because of that relationship or

509
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:33.839
we will see him.

510
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:38.119
One of these days. He really is coming again, and

511
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I thank God for that. Amen.

512
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.440
We preached about it, we sing about it, we testify

513
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.160
about it.

514
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:46.039
But mark this. Now. He is coming to get his children.

515
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:48.200
And you don't have to steal something if you've done,

516
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:49.240
bought and paid for it.

517
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:50.599
Amen. We see the.

518
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.039
Purchase possession of the God of Heaven. We are his

519
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:56.960
children and we know the Lord. And I'm telling you

520
00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:59.599
this because of that. He is coming to get us

521
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:01.920
one day. He said, let not your heart be trouble.

522
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.319
You believe in God. Believe also on me in my

523
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:06.519
father's house or many mansions. If it were not so,

524
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.680
I would have told you. He said, I go and

525
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:10.880
prepare place for you. And if I go and prepare

526
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.440
place for you, I will come again and receive you

527
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:17.079
under myself that where I am there you may be also.

528
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:20.079
Thank God, Jesus is coming again.

529
00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:23.200
Hey, listen, you preach about that now, and you might

530
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:25.599
get one or two amens and a hand raised. If

531
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:28.240
you preach out fifty years ago, people shout and holler

532
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:31.160
and praise God. And they some of them were all millennial,

533
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:34.519
some were pep pre millennial. Some of them are pan millennials,

534
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.839
just gonna pan out one of these days. Ah, but

535
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.799
that's just glad that God was gonna come. Hey, get

536
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:41.759
us out of this mess, and praise God for that

537
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.680
He is coming again the people that He is purchased.

538
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:47.839
But I will preach a little bit about this morning.

539
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.240
If you are saved by the grace of God, if

540
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:54.440
you are a purchased possession of God, there's something gonna

541
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happen in your life.

542
00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.160
The Bible said, believed, now we the sons of God verse.

543
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.720
And every man that has this hope and him purified himself,

544
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:05.319
even if he is perire. I want to preach a

545
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:08.039
little bit about the pursuit of purity.

546
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:13.920
Okay, that was a lot of things Hey threw in.

547
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:17.400
There's so many things. But now at least what I

548
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.200
do like about, even though he threw all of that

549
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:22.039
stuff in there, what I love about he's now clearly

550
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.240
focusing in and zooming in on his actual thesis.

551
00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:25.480
Right.

552
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.680
I remember a lot of times when we do sermon reviews,

553
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:29.279
I'm like, I don't know what the thesis of this

554
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:30.240
sermon is. I don't know.

555
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:31.160
I have no clue.

556
00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:33.839
I have no clue. I remember, and I can't remember

557
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:36.920
which seminary what I attended one of the seminaries I

558
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:39.400
graduated from. At one of the classes. I think it

559
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.839
was on preaching, I don't remember. It was like, you've

560
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.160
got to write. When you write out your sermon, you

561
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:48.160
need to start with writing out your thesis statement. What

562
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.160
is the thesis of your sermon? What is it? What

563
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.359
is it? And so many times in sermons I'm like,

564
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:55.440
I don't know what the point is here. I don't like, Well,

565
00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:58.119
We'll spend three hours doing a sermon review and I'm like,

566
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:01.079
I don't know what it was. Well, here it's clear,

567
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.759
all right, when you become a Christian, something basically is

568
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.799
going to happen, something is going to change. And well

569
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.680
he purifies himself. All right, good, all right, so we

570
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:16.400
seem to have a clear thesis. Now I applaud that. Right,

571
00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:19.839
he's got excitement. He's definitely not being you know, monotone.

572
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.720
All right, there's some passion here. Great, we have a

573
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.079
clear thesis. Now the issue is is there going to

574
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.480
be agreement on his understanding of how this happens versus

575
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:32.720
my understanding? Well, you can. You can just write down

576
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:37.799
the phrase purify ourselves, purify myself if you want to

577
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:42.960
make it personal, purify myself, purify myself. Write that down,

578
00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:45.880
purify myself. Now, he made that statement about you know,

579
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.119
we get all of our needs met, but he didn't

580
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.160
really articulate that. Okay, let's just forget that. Let's forget that.

581
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:52.359
Right.

582
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.119
Sometimes when people criticize sermons are preaching, they can get

583
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:58.559
caught up on the secondary issue, right, Like, so many

584
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:00.920
times I'll get an email someone will criticize something I

585
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.839
said in a message, and I'll be like, did you

586
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.680
even actually listen to the message? That wasn't the point, right,

587
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.839
So let's not worry about his comment about you know,

588
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:11.559
every when basically having whatever you need, even though we

589
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.279
have some statistics that would cause us to least struggle.

590
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:18.880
Let's forget that. The thesis here is basically, you and

591
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:25.720
I we purify ourselves. All right, are you ready? Let's

592
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:27.119
find out how this all works.

593
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:33.960
That pursuit of purity Once an individual has this hope, there's.

594
00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:36.480
Going to be a pursuit that will take place in

595
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.000
their life.

596
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.839
Purity is a very strong theme in the New Testament.

597
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.680
I understand, in the Old Testament, if you were not pure,

598
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.759
if you were not clean, you could not even offer sacrifices.

599
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:49.359
You had to clean up before you come in the

600
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.319
presence of God.

601
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.119
Now, I know there's a lot of people say, well,

602
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.559
that's in the Old Testament, And there's a lot of

603
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:58.240
things said in the New Testament about living a pure life.

604
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.759
One of them is found in the tape. If you

605
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:03.720
are saying, every man that has this hope in him,

606
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.960
purified him, sail even as he is pure.

607
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:16.960
Now, okay, Now let's just establish though this basic hermeneutical structure.

608
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.799
All right. Now, I know he's not going to go

609
00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:22.599
along with this, and that's okay. But remember, anytime you

610
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:25.279
read anything in the Bible, Old Testament or New Testament

611
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:30.119
that tells you do this, this is something you must do,

612
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:33.039
This is something you must pursue, this is something you

613
00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:37.839
must do that we classify that as a law. Passage

614
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:41.319
that is law, you must do this. Any passage that

615
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:45.200
says do something, you must do something that is law.

616
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.720
What law passages do They reveal to us our inability.

617
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:52.920
They reveal to us our inability to obey it. That

618
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:57.799
reveals our sin, It reveals our failure. It shows us

619
00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:59.960
we can't. So then we have to run to Christ,

620
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.319
who did right. So Christ was pure right, He was

621
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:08.199
absolutely pure, He was holy, He was without sin, He

622
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.039
was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin.

623
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.920
So in him I am pure in practice? Will I

624
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:16.920
ever be pure?

625
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:17.519
Right?

626
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:20.239
So I think we just need to draw a distinction

627
00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:23.800
between law passages and gospel. Law tells us what to do.

628
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:25.920
Gospel tells us what Christ has done.

629
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:26.519
Right.

630
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.639
I think that's important. But again, I'm going to go

631
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:33.199
back to the idea, purify yourself, purify yourself, purify yourself.

632
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:38.960
If I'm purifying myself, then I am not pure. So

633
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:41.920
what am I purifying? This is the question? Am I

634
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:48.920
purifying action? Or am I purifying internal desires? What am

635
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:54.840
I purifying my actions or my internal nature? Now, most

636
00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:57.480
Christians teach, well, I don't have to purify anything internally

637
00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.719
because everything is pure. I have a new hurt everything.

638
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:03.239
I'm supposedly a new creature. Old things have passed away,

639
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:06.000
all things have come new? What so what am I purifying?

640
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:07.440
Now?

641
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:11.599
If you say I'm purifying my external action, well, where

642
00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:15.440
is the wrong desire originating from? Because most Christians say

643
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:18.800
everything on the inside is already pure. So then why

644
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:22.800
am I actions impure? If everything inside of me is pure?

645
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:28.920
What am I purifying? Is this the internal the external?

646
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.000
Let's see how he explains it.

647
00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:35.519
Now, the word purify if here it takes upon the

648
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.880
meaning of somebody who has taken themselves to abstain from

649
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.599
things that would defile them, abstain from things that would

650
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:45.920
hurt their judgment. I know that brother, They say that

651
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:47.719
brother Rutlets preests about alcohol.

652
00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:49.920
How about abstaining from those things.

653
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.280
It's amazing to me that some people claim to be

654
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.000
saved by the grace of God that would still try

655
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:59.000
to defend drinking. I've talked about just social drinking. I

656
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:02.039
tell you, listen, you become a drunk as you take one.

657
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:03.639
Drink and it never ends.

658
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:06.280
Hey man, that so anybody that claims to be right

659
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.960
with God, you are not right with God if you

660
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.239
believe in social drink. And I'm not gonna preach on

661
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.360
all that, although that I could.

662
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.599
Answer, all right, So now here, ladies and gentlemen, we

663
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.960
have now we have found ourselves with a problem. You're

664
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:25.480
not right with God if you believe in social drinking.

665
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:31.400
So now see this, Oh boy, this is Christianity. This

666
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:37.360
I love. Oh Christianity, Oh Christianity, Oh Christianity. Sometimes I

667
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.800
do not understand thee. Okay, all right, So you're not

668
00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:45.559
right with God now, So look, let's just make it

669
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.519
very clear. We are ready. No, none of us are

670
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:51.000
truly right with God in the sense that God says

671
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.880
be holy as He is holy, and none of us

672
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:54.840
are holy. So none of us are right with God.

673
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.760
From a practical standpoint, me, being right with God has

674
00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.480
nothing to do with what I do or don't do,

675
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.400
because being right with God is based off my putting

676
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:04.559
my faith in Him and He declaring me to be righteous,

677
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.119
even though I'm not so in him, I'm perfectly right

678
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:09.199
with Him and practice I may not be. But okay,

679
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.159
So even though we're kind of just abandoning the entire

680
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.920
idea that I'm right with God based off imputed righteousness,

681
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.639
even though that's a banning, you're not right with God

682
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.840
if you defend social drinking. Where do you get that

683
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.320
in the Bible? That I am not right with God.

684
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:26.199
Now listen, I hate alcohol. See, this is what people

685
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:31.199
always get confused with me. I hate alcohol. I loathe it.

686
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.800
I do not drink, and I would tell no, I

687
00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:37.840
would tell everyone do not touch alcohol. Because alcohol there's

688
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.400
too many problems that come with it, and there's too

689
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.440
much pain and destruction connected with it. The best thing

690
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:45.440
you can do for your life is don't drink. But

691
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.039
guess what that is. My view has nothing to do

692
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.199
with Christianity, has nothing to do with religion. That is

693
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:56.320
simply me looking up all the statistics about the damage

694
00:37:56.519 --> 00:38:00.559
of alcohol and alcoholism, hearing all the stories, seeing all

695
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.000
the pain, seeing all the suffering, seeing all the things

696
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:07.400
that are alcohol related, and going hmm, it would probably

697
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.599
be smart to me to just avoid that substance.

698
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:10.880
Right.

699
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:15.920
There is nothing inside of me that desires alcohol. Right,

700
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.880
there's nothing that says I need alcohol. Well, the best

701
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.599
way to keep that desire from ever getting inside of

702
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:23.800
me is drinking, because if I drink and then I

703
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.719
start desiring it, well, now I have another desire for

704
00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:30.079
another thing that could potentially be destructive in my life.

705
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.639
The best way to avoid ever having said desire is

706
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:35.719
never drinking. Therefore I cannot have the desire, because if

707
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.360
I get the desire, then I'm desiring a substance that,

708
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:42.159
at least in theory, has the potential of mass destruction.

709
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.719
So I'm not going to do it. But I cannot

710
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:48.960
come along and get conscience and say the Bible condemns it. No,

711
00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:53.159
the Bible says, do not get drunk. The Bible does

712
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:56.039
not condemn drinking. In the Church at Core, at the

713
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:59.360
Church and First Corinthians, when Paul is addressing all the

714
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:03.039
problems with Lord's Supper, he talks about them getting drunk.

715
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:07.360
He doesn't say stop drinking alcohol. They're using alcohol in

716
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.960
the Lord's Supper. He doesn't tell them to avoid it. No,

717
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:14.519
he says, don't get drunk. Stop getting drunk. He doesn't

718
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:19.360
say stop using alcohol. The alcohol was used at that time.

719
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:21.719
Now you can say, well it was a different product.

720
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:22.159
You can't.

721
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.199
You can say it didn't have the same alcohol content.

722
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:27.840
You can make that argument. But the point is you

723
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.480
can't just come along with scripture and say the Bible says,

724
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.440
do not drink. No, the Bible warns against drunkenness. The

725
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:39.320
Bible does warn about the dangers of alcohol. I got

726
00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:41.960
no problem with that, But it does not say thou

727
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:47.760
shall never drink alcohol. I can't make the Bible say

728
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:50.159
what I wanted to say. Now, I could argue the

729
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:54.360
Bible gives me lots of reasons to avoid it, right,

730
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:57.440
you could give me. We could argue the Bible gives

731
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.239
me lots of good reasons to avoid it. But there's

732
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.320
nothing in scripture that would say no, you cannot drink.

733
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.679
It would say you cannot get drunk. Now that's that's

734
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.400
a slippery slope, right, because how many how many drinks

735
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:12.760
before I become drunk? And what is drunk in the

736
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:15.840
eyes of God. He doesn't give me an alcohol level,

737
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:18.679
but if your alcohol level is this, then you're drunk

738
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:21.039
in the eyes of God. So I can understand. I

739
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:24.559
can make a good argument for avoiding it, being careful,

740
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:28.400
being cautious, being wise. But I can't just say you're

741
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.599
not right with God if you believe in social drinking.

742
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:33.360
I can't say that.

743
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.079
And if we're gonna talk about purifying ourselves, we can't

744
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:41.079
then create standards which God is not even placed in

745
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.960
his word. Now, I again, I don't someone's gonna come

746
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:50.480
you're defending drink. I hate alcohol, but what I what

747
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:54.039
I can't do is allow my personal feelings to tell

748
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:56.719
someone you're wrong in drinking. You're not right with God.

749
00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:00.320
So now we're forget purifying myself. We are do you

750
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:00.800
start with?

751
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.119
Now?

752
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.480
According to this, you're not even right with God if

753
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:08.159
you just believe in social drinking. If you defend, you

754
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.199
don't even have to from his vantage point, you don't

755
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.360
even have to drink. If you simply defend social drinking,

756
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.679
you're not right with God. You can't make that argument

757
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:25.559
scripturally or biblically. I got no problem saying, hey, according

758
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:28.639
to the Bible, here are some warnings about alcohol. You

759
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.599
should consider them and be careful. Here are some statistics.

760
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:36.000
Here's you can make an argument. But you can't just say,

761
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:39.000
if you drink, or if you defend social drinking, you're

762
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:41.360
not right with God. Who are you to say that?

763
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:45.480
Amazing to me?

764
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.360
People who try to make these excuses, I wonder if

765
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:51.599
they've really been saying, now, I'm moved by I may

766
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.280
cut a little tight right here, but it'll be all right.

767
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:57.039
We'll go by Nates and sweets and sweetness up. You say,

768
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.400
why do you say that? Here's what the Bible said?

769
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:01.679
He said, and every man that hath this hope in

770
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:05.079
him purifieth himself even as he is pure. Now, if

771
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.639
you look at this, this is in the present tense,

772
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:10.960
it is in the active bullist, and it's in the indicative.

773
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.320
You just say, what does that mean? That means right now,

774
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:17.639
just as we are sons of God right now, if

775
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.280
you are saved by the grace of God right now,

776
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:24.440
there will be a purification process going on in your life.

777
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:24.920
Now.

778
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:33.039
Now, okay, first of all, now he's questioning people's salvation.

779
00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:35.880
Not only are you not right with God, you may

780
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:40.559
not even be saved if you defend social drinking. So

781
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.280
now salvation is how are we saved by putting your

782
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:49.960
faith in Jesus Christ and changing your mind about social drinking? Now, salvage.

783
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:55.480
Our requirement for salvation is right understanding of drinking. That

784
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:58.519
is the most ridiculous thing. Salvation is based off my

785
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:01.440
faith in Jesus Christ. But I believe about drinking or

786
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:04.840
not drinking has nothing to do with my salvation. You

787
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:08.960
can't make it a requirement. That's salvation. Okay, Now listen,

788
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.159
we're gonna call you the faith in Jesus Christ. But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

789
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:14.840
do you believe in Jesus Yes? Do you believe he's

790
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:15.960
the eternal son of God?

791
00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:16.239
Yes?

792
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:17.880
Do you believe he died for your sins?

793
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:18.239
Yes?

794
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.199
Do you believe social drinking is wrong?

795
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:20.519
No?

796
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:34.760
You're going to hell? What what is that? Your salvation

797
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.599
has nothing to do with your belief about drinking?

798
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:40.960
All right? That is just that?

799
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:53.679
Oh man, oh boy? Oh okay, all right, okay, it

800
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:57.679
would be interesting. I wonder some pastors will go crazy

801
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.519
on alcohol. I want do you go after gluttony?

802
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.119
Do you do you?

803
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:08.599
I mean, let's look, I mean, I don't wanna. I

804
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:10.440
don't want to offend anybody. I don't wanna. I don't

805
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:12.840
want to hurt anybody's feelings. But let's let's get really,

806
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:17.960
really really serious here. Okay, gluttony is a sin, right, Well?

807
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:19.079
How much food?

808
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:19.719
Well?

809
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:21.599
How do you How can you tell if someone is

810
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.159
possibly a glutton? Can you tell?

811
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:27.119
Now?

812
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.679
I've seen preachers up there, turned red in the face, yelling,

813
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.559
huffing and puffing and screaming about alcohol. And you'll be like, now, look,

814
00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:36.840
I'm not saying you're a glutton. I'm just saying that,

815
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:41.119
you know, you seem to weigh a very large amount

816
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.000
I don't know if that's maybe because of a medical

817
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:47.039
condition it could be, or it could possibly be you're

818
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:50.039
eating more than you need. You're bringing in more calories

819
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:52.480
than you're burning, so therefore you're eating more than you

820
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:56.360
actual need. Is that gluttony? Are you guilty of? Nobody

821
00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:59.239
ever gets in trouble for the sin of gluttony? No, no, none,

822
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:10.880
zeros elch Right, So already I think this is a

823
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.400
destruction of the gospel. This is this is not being

824
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.079
saved by an imputed righteousness. This is you being saved

825
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.400
based on the right belief about alcohol. There is no

826
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.280
way you can connect someone's salvation to what they believe

827
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:29.239
about alcohol. That is just utterly ridiculous. I was gonna say,

828
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.280
I guess we call into the question of jesus salvation

829
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.559
because he turned water into wine. But then they'll say, well,

830
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:38.360
that wasn't That wasn't wine, that was that was fruit juice,

831
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:40.800
that was that wasn't wine. There was no alcohol in it.

832
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.039
Are we sure of that? Are we sure? Now? I

833
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.079
know we can get into a never ending argument there.

834
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:51.159
But okay, now, what makes this very important and the

835
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.920
reason I mentioned this is this being in the active

836
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:56.960
voice and What that means is it's something that is

837
00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:00.639
working some from salvation of the Second Coming, but it's

838
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:04.159
the subject doing the work rather than an outside source.

839
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.679
And what I mean by that, if something is done

840
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:09.960
in the passive voice, that means it's an outside source

841
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:13.960
doing it to that individual. We are saved by the

842
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.039
grace of God. It is God that works in us.

843
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:19.599
It is God that comes calling, it is God that

844
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.599
does the drawing, It's God that does the save and

845
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:23.800
it's the grace of God.

846
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:27.519
We trust him by faith. An outside source moves.

847
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.119
To where we are and begins to deal with our heart.

848
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.039
That's not what this is talking about. It is an

849
00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:36.559
individual who is saved by the grace of God. They

850
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:41.760
are working on their purification. Now, I appreciate God being

851
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.119
caught to this very thing that He which hath forgne

852
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:46.400
a good work in you will perform it to the

853
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:48.880
day of Jesus Christ. And a lot of people take

854
00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:50.880
that so far and they say, well, God just gonna

855
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:52.800
do the work in my heart. Now, I don't have

856
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:56.000
any responsibility about that. Hey, the only thing about that

857
00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:59.039
that's not sold. You've got a responsibility. I've got a

858
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:03.920
responsibility to live a pure holy life for the glory

859
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:05.519
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

860
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:10.480
Not all right, So he's making it very clear. This

861
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.280
is something we do. This is something we do and

862
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:19.360
I have a responsibility to live a pure and holy life.

863
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:24.000
Meaning they believe that you and I can live a

864
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.199
pure and holy life. This is where I get so

865
00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.159
confused by the world of I'm already confused by the

866
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:33.119
world of Christianity constantly. This just adds to it. So,

867
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:35.280
all right, so let me make sure we understand this.

868
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:38.760
So we've heard sermon after sermon after sermon that says, basically,

869
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:43.039
we've been completely transformed. However, obviously we've not been completely

870
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:46.320
transformed because we still need to purify ourselves. All right, So,

871
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:50.719
but we can, according to this, we can live a

872
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:54.480
pure and holy life. What would it mean if I'm

873
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:58.280
going to live a pure and holy life just by

874
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.639
definition of Whome holiness, that would mean there is no

875
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:06.599
sin in my life. So I can purify myself to

876
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:09.000
the point that there is no more sin if I

877
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:11.400
can get to if I can purify myself to the

878
00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:14.320
point of being holy, that means there would be no sin.

879
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:17.639
You can't be holy and yet sin in your life.

880
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:20.599
You can't be pure and yet sin in your life.

881
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.360
That's where when we read the scripture be ye holy

882
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:26.679
as he is holy, we know we can't do that.

883
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.239
We never can, we never will. That is law that

884
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.760
shows my inability, but says, but Christ has was holy

885
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.840
and his holiness is imputed to my account. I can

886
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:43.840
try to purify myself, purify removing certain sin, but there's

887
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:46.639
always going to be sin. I can never get to

888
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:49.360
holiness and I can never get to true purity. I

889
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:56.599
cannot right to be holy means keep his law perfectly. Well,

890
00:48:56.599 --> 00:48:59.440
I cannot keep his law perfectly. And guess what if

891
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.239
I violate one point of the law, I'm guilty of

892
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.360
all of it. So I'm really in a perpetual state

893
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:05.920
of being guilty of all of God's law. Therefore I'm

894
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:11.280
not holy and I'm not pure. What Christians want to

895
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:13.920
say is we can be holy, but then redefine holy.

896
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.519
It's like when Christians talk about the holiness of God.

897
00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:19.679
He is separate from sin, He's other than sin, he

898
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.920
is without sin, there is no sin to be found

899
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.000
in him, and we are called to be holy as

900
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.000
He is holy. Okay, well, if that's holiness, I'm never

901
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.000
going to be holy. You're never going to be holy,

902
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:33.920
so we can never be holy. We can never truly

903
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:34.480
be pure.

904
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.440
I've called somebody pat us on the bag. But because

905
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.199
we love God and we want to be pure and

906
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:46.360
blameless in the day of Jesus Christ. The reason being

907
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.280
is because there is a post of militian verse twenty

908
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.079
eight of chapter two, that we can be ashamed before

909
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.039
him and he is coming. That's why we ought to

910
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:57.960
want to live a pure, holy life for him that

911
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.519
loved us and made us part of the family of God.

912
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:03.320
I do not want to bring shame to the family name.

913
00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:05.679
I do not want to bring a reproach upon the

914
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.679
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do not want

915
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.000
to try to make any inco inconfuses me when people

916
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:15.199
say that they're saved, but they try to find every avenue,

917
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:18.159
every loophole they can get their hands on it. I

918
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:21.039
try to live a whole unholy life. Get over here

919
00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:23.320
as close as they can to the world. That like

920
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.920
the world, dress like the world, act like the world.

921
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:28.480
Ain't trying to get as close as they possibly can.

922
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:33.039
That's still claimed to be right with God. Amen, Praise God.

923
00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:35.480
I wasn't gonna mention this, and I let me just

924
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:40.159
mind the Lord. I'm just telling you, heys, God, boys,

925
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:41.599
why don't you get you a haircut?

926
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:47.440
Amen? Amen, I ain't.

927
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:58.719
Ain't so don't drink and get your haircut. Oh man

928
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:01.039
o man o, man o, man o, man o, man

929
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:05.480
no man no man Please note all the things are external.

930
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:08.760
All these things are external. Don't drink and get your

931
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:12.239
hair cut. And please note it's them. It's always those

932
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.119
other people, those other people who find the loopholes, those

933
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:17.000
other people who bring a reproach to Christ.

934
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:17.360
Those.

935
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:21.000
I thank THEE God that I'm not like all these

936
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:24.679
other people, because I have purified myself and I am holy.

937
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:27.480
So you're without sin? Well no, well then you're not pure,

938
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.320
you're not holy. So can we either where where do

939
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.320
we actually start this conversation?

940
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:39.280
Tell them about the money? Either? Hey? Amen, you say

941
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.559
you know you say what? You sound hateful? Yeah? Pretty

942
00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:44.599
much pretty much.

943
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.119
My Bible says this, Let love be done without dissimulation

944
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:53.760
of hor that which is evil, cleave to that witch

945
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:54.239
is good.

946
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:56.719
Hey, we don't hate sinners, and I don't hate you,

947
00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:57.760
but I hate sin.

948
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.119
And our problem today is way of so watered down

949
00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:04.199
and so anemic in the pump head, that everybody was

950
00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:08.519
sins bad, and sin's awful, and sin ain't no good, no.

951
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:09.519
Sins worse than that.

952
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.000
Hey, the reason we have death and the reason we

953
00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:14.960
have semetaries have the reason we have few knows, that's

954
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.119
because of sin. Amen, we didn't get a holy hatred

955
00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:22.199
against said Amen. I think watch live that you may

956
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.119
be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

957
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:28.239
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by

958
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:32.280
Jesus Christ under the glory and praise of God. Because

959
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.159
we have this hope and because we anticipate Jesus coming again,

960
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.400
we are going to pursue a pure life. I don't

961
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:42.000
want to meet God with an unread Bible. I don't

962
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:44.599
want to meet God with things in my vehicle that's

963
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.880
not worthy to be listened to. And I can tell

964
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:48.360
you this, Fred, howy listen.

965
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:48.760
I love it.

966
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:50.079
We got a bunch of We got a bunch of

967
00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:52.559
young people in our church. You watching you say, well,

968
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.079
you can't judge nobody by that.

969
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:55.440
You mark this down.

970
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:57.880
If the world's doing that and you got it going

971
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:00.159
on in your church, they're doing more.

972
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:01.400
Than just dress and lock them.

973
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:07.360
They're listening to them, and they're they're following them.

974
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:11.519
All right, So we're going with the big three alcohol, hair,

975
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:13.760
and music. All right, we can go with the big

976
00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:21.719
four alcohol, hair, music, and clothing. Oh boy, it's always

977
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:24.320
it's always the external stuff they see. Because everyone can

978
00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:27.199
clean up the external stuff, right, you can. You everyone

979
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:30.079
can clean up. Everyone can cut their hair. Everyone can

980
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:32.800
decide not to listen to the music. I mean, I

981
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:34.079
guess you have to go to him and find out

982
00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.280
which music is acceptable. Everyone can wear the acceptable clothes,

983
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.360
they listen to the acceptable music, don't drink and cut

984
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:44.719
their hair and done. Dun du dum. We are so good.

985
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.960
We are so good. I've been in plenty of churches

986
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:50.239
where they didn't listen to the wrong music, they wore

987
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:53.039
the wore the right clothes, they had their hair cut,

988
00:53:53.239 --> 00:54:00.960
and nobody drank alcohol. And it was hateful, judgmental, condemning, backbiting, gossip, slander, unloving,

989
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:03.880
and it was politics and it was a mess. And

990
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:06.559
there was nothing godly about any of it other than

991
00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:13.639
the external appearance. Because of purifying and holiness. I thought,

992
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:19.840
we said it starts from the inside. This is all

993
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:24.280
just getting cleaning up the outside. People of other religions

994
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:27.679
can clean up the outside. Muslims can clean up the outside,

995
00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:30.679
Mormons can clean up the outside. Jehovah's witnesses can clean

996
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:33.679
up the outside. People can clean up the outside.

997
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:42.920
Amen, that's the truth. He is the truth. Purity is very,

998
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:43.760
very important.

999
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:46.920
That's why I need to break off any relation that

1000
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:49.719
involves see in your life. Amen, you say, well, do

1001
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:51.239
you believe I believe in the grace of God. I

1002
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:53.559
preached on it Sunday. I know people believe.

1003
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:54.960
That I can't do that.

1004
00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:56.840
Hold the way up here, I try to figure out

1005
00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:59.320
what's gonna preach, And John said, Denny said, why don't

1006
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:01.880
you preach that Sunday that you preach about the God

1007
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:03.679
of all grace? Cause so many people up there don't

1008
00:55:03.679 --> 00:55:06.599
believe you can preach it. Hey, listen, I'm tell you

1009
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:09.320
I appreciate the grace of God. I appreciate it, I

1010
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:11.880
really am. I'm thrilled about the grace of God. But

1011
00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:13.880
the grace of God that not only will get you

1012
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:16.480
looking for the blessing ho he'll teach you to deny

1013
00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:19.280
God and us and worldly loss and lived soberly and

1014
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:24.039
righteously and godly ed this present world not in the

1015
00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:26.760
world to come. I've talked about in this present world.

1016
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:31.199
That's what it'll do. You say, well, y'all believing you

1017
00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:33.360
can just live like you want to. Let me say

1018
00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:37.679
this this morning, I live like I want to. I

1019
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.519
drinking must beers I want too, smoking much dope as

1020
00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:43.000
I want to chase as much skirts as I want to,

1021
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.360
my shoot dies, as much as I want to play

1022
00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:47.280
the Lord as much as I want too. But the

1023
00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:50.800
issue is my wonter, God saying my desire, God saying

1024
00:55:51.159 --> 00:55:53.800
God change my life.

1025
00:55:56.280 --> 00:55:57.320
All ain't I wait a minute?

1026
00:55:57.400 --> 00:55:58.559
Okay, okay, all right.

1027
00:55:58.960 --> 00:55:59.519
I am.

1028
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:02.679
I am now more confused and when this started, okay,

1029
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:04.639
so let me make sure I get this right. Okay.

1030
00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:08.920
So he goes to a verse about purifying ourselves. Hasn't

1031
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:11.920
really articulated what we're purifying, but then it clear that

1032
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:15.360
we're purifying the external. Right, we're purifying don't drink, don't

1033
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:18.119
cut you or don't drink, cut your hair, don't listen

1034
00:56:18.199 --> 00:56:20.079
to music, and don't wear the wrong clothes. I mean,

1035
00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:21.880
that's all we've get been given. We've been given to

1036
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:25.400
basically the Big Four. But now he's telling me that

1037
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:28.480
what has been we've already been changed and our want to,

1038
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.239
our want to has been completely changed. So we don't

1039
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:33.719
want to drink, we don't want to wear long hair,

1040
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:36.000
we don't want to listen to the wrong music, we

1041
00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:39.119
don't want to wear the wrong clothes because everything has

1042
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.519
changed on the inside. Well, if everything is changed on

1043
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:45.400
the inside and my want to has been changed, then

1044
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:53.840
what am I purifying? Don't understand. If everything's been changed

1045
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.760
and my want to has been completely transformed, then there's

1046
00:56:56.760 --> 00:57:00.320
nothing to purify because my actions will be pure because

1047
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.920
they come from an eternal and internal want to that's

1048
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:07.559
been completely transformed. So if my want to has been transformed,

1049
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:10.719
then my actions have been transformed. There's nothing to purify.

1050
00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:14.360
There's nothing to do. If my all, if God will

1051
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:17.440
just change my want to to be the right to,

1052
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.800
then I will do the right thing. If God has

1053
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.480
transformed all of our wants to be perfect, then ladies

1054
00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:28.400
and gentlemen, there the problem is solved. The problem is over.

1055
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:31.480
So I don't I don't get it. He's now so

1056
00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:34.239
what he's going to a pesticists to purify myself. But

1057
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:37.519
he just now argued there's nothing to purify because my

1058
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.960
want to has been completely transformed. Well, if my want

1059
00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:43.400
to has been completely transformed, then why do I not

1060
00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:45.480
want to? Why do I not do what I want

1061
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:53.880
to do? Where's the sin coming from? Oh man? And

1062
00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:55.840
I threw my pencil half way across the room, So

1063
00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:59.480
now I'm getting frustrated. All right, let's see where this goes.

1064
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:06.760
Amen, I'm just telling you. The Bible said sacred griety

1065
00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:07.159
than seven.

1066
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.519
Verse one said, having therefore these promises, dear to believe it.

1067
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:13.519
Let us cleanse ourselves from all fieldiness of the flesh

1068
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:17.639
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Young people,

1069
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:20.320
you don't fear of God if you go to hug

1070
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:23.400
all over one another and rub all over one another.

1071
00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:24.960
And I mean mess and I've talked out there and

1072
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:27.880
camp me. You don't.

1073
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:36.039
Wait, you don't love God if you hug and rub

1074
00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:39.639
against one another. Young people, Hey, any young people, if

1075
00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:44.320
you have that desire for physical intimacy, you have that desire,

1076
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:46.199
are we allowed to say the word if you have

1077
00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:50.199
the desire for Okay, we won't.

1078
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:51.920
X.

1079
00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:58.559
If you have that desire, you don't love God even

1080
00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:01.119
at church camp. Oh, I know, go down at church camp.

1081
00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:01.320
I know.

1082
00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:03.280
Again, I've told the story a lot of time about

1083
00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:06.199
my friend his girl. He couldn't go to church camp

1084
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:08.639
that year because of his job. His girlfriend went to

1085
00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:12.079
church camp and she came back from church camp pregnant. Okay,

1086
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:15.000
because there was more than hugging and rubbing against each

1087
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.400
other at church camp. And you say that's shocking.

1088
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:18.519
Is it shocking?

1089
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:22.400
Is it shocking that young people want physical intimacy?

1090
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:23.440
Is it shocking?

1091
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:26.719
Or is it like a biological thing and there's hormones

1092
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:32.039
and things happening. Is it shocking that people desire physical intimacy?

1093
00:59:32.320 --> 00:59:40.119
Is it shocking that people want sex? Is it?

1094
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:40.280
So?

1095
00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:44.440
If you do that, you don't love God? So it

1096
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.199
sounds like basically what this is coming down to is

1097
00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:54.280
if you sin or struggle with sin, you don't love God. Well,

1098
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:56.559
we're all in a perpetual state of sin, so therefore

1099
00:59:56.599 --> 00:59:58.880
no one loves God. I think this is going to

1100
00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:00.760
go back to what I've said from the beginning. No

1101
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:03.280
one can keep the law of God. No one can.

1102
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:05.920
We're in a perpetual state of sin. No one loves

1103
01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:08.519
God with our whole heart, mind, body, and soul. None

1104
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:11.639
of us does. Right, We are constantly in sin in

1105
01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:15.199
some way, shape or form. But just note he's not

1106
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:18.519
mentioning any of his sin. It's everyone else his want to.

1107
01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:23.760
Please know what this establishes. He's perfect because his want

1108
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:27.400
to has been completely transformed, but everyone else is in sin.

1109
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.800
He's without it, everyone else is in it. This is

1110
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:35.920
the inevitable result of what Christianity, the Christianity of basically

1111
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:39.400
modern day Christianity. It's what it leads to. I'm good.

1112
01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:44.840
You're all bad. You're all bad, not me, because we

1113
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:48.440
can never acknowledge our sin. It's always everyone else's.

1114
01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:52.280
Fear God, and you don't love God.

1115
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.239
If you're trying to get around somewhere, well your hold

1116
01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:55.920
hands or listen.

1117
01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:56.840
We're sweet nothings.

1118
01:00:57.039 --> 01:00:59.440
I'm teddy late. Listen, girls, what you want to do?

1119
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.679
Fancy down around here? Price the cording you up, and

1120
01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:04.800
put his hands on you and get you.

1121
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:06.719
To live with him. I tay you grow out. I

1122
01:01:06.760 --> 01:01:08.360
don't care for fake or not. Amen.

1123
01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:12.079
Put you some mbigo fingernails and cut sink him right

1124
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.119
into his cheek, bona and do about like that right here,

1125
01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:19.639
you'll identifying Amen. That's why these other girls around here

1126
01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:22.159
say that fellow right they must he must try to

1127
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:23.679
put a move on somebody.

1128
01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:31.639
Amen, holding hands means you don't love God. And so

1129
01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:36.679
what you should do is if a guy, if a

1130
01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:40.119
guy just comes on to you, you physically scar him

1131
01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:46.320
in the face. He's calling for a physical mark. What

1132
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:49.599
if it's the girl coming onto the guy. Does a

1133
01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:55.719
guy gouge her face? What has this got to do

1134
01:01:55.920 --> 01:01:57.280
with purifying yourself?

1135
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.719
And let me say this just because you may, Hey,

1136
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.880
you may be a virgin and not be pure, amen.

1137
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.960
I mean I'm talking about pumping up pure, impure things

1138
01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:14.079
in your mind, in your life.

1139
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:15.159
Amen.

1140
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:18.800
I'm just telling you we ought to be pure. What

1141
01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:22.760
to hate sin? I mean, we ought to detest it.

1142
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:25.880
It ought to be something that's loathsome I was talking

1143
01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:28.679
to Lincoln this morning, we say in there in the motel,

1144
01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:30.920
and we was talking about different things, and we went

1145
01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:33.280
through the doctrine of sin and now we're.

1146
01:02:33.159 --> 01:02:35.039
Going through the doctor of hyper Calvinism.

1147
01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:36.679
And I talked to him, I said, I want to

1148
01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.000
church to hate sin, and I wanted to hate hyper calvinism.

1149
01:02:41.079 --> 01:02:44.639
Amen, what you're wanting to say? All that went over

1150
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:45.639
right there? Amen?

1151
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:48.480
Hey, listen, I don't I didn't say I hated hyper

1152
01:02:48.519 --> 01:02:49.880
Calvinists at all.

1153
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:51.880
I don't hate Calvinists. We don't hate nobody.

1154
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:56.039
But Jesus said about the doctrines of the Nicolatin's Revelation too.

1155
01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:59.000
He said it twice. He said, I hate the doctrine,

1156
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.800
and I'm gonna tell you there. Hey, listen, I knew

1157
01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:04.159
you had overflow. I've just been trying to Hey, I

1158
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:06.360
don't want it, but I'm just saying, hey, man, you

1159
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:08.519
ought to have You ought to be pure in your thoughts,

1160
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:11.880
you ought to be pure in your lifestyle. You gotta

1161
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:16.360
keep yourself pures. What the book says, Well, I'm savan.

1162
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:19.079
God just going, Hey, God's not gonna Satan deify you

1163
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:24.440
against your will. Positionally we're set apart in Christ. Practically

1164
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:28.679
we need to set out. We need to satify ourself. Hey,

1165
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:31.800
I mean, listen, went in doubt, get it out, just

1166
01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:34.679
like the food and you refrigerator. If there's a doubt

1167
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.719
about it, throw it out and get rid of it.

1168
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:38.599
Man.

1169
01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:42.559
Actually, one of the ways that Paul defended his calling

1170
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:45.320
and being approved of God, you can read it second

1171
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:47.760
crist them six, verse six. He said one of the

1172
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:52.880
ways that he knew he is called of God was purreness. Hey, man,

1173
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.119
purreness I have been. I have been greatly affected negatively

1174
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.280
by preachers who are supposed to be right with God.

1175
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:04.079
I've heard them curse. I've told about people.

1176
01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:04.400
You know.

1177
01:04:07.039 --> 01:04:08.760
You said, you have said a cuss word since you've

1178
01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:11.480
been saved. I said one. That's on the day I

1179
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:14.519
got saved. I went into work that day and the

1180
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:17.440
guy said something, and I've heard what I said said

1181
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:20.840
in the Baptist pulpit, and I said, I said something,

1182
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:23.639
and immediately I'm talked about. I had been saved two

1183
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:27.480
or three hours. Two or three hours. I said, see there,

1184
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.239
you made me cuss. And I went and God got

1185
01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:33.159
in the bathroom and I said, God, please forgot. I'm

1186
01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:36.559
told about laid down before. God didn't care what they

1187
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:37.519
taught God.

1188
01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:38.280
I'm sorry.

1189
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:41.960
God forgive me. Ever since that day, by the grace

1190
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.079
that gave people say, well, Hent, no, brother Randy, you

1191
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:47.199
know what I just kind of slipped up. You didn't

1192
01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:49.960
slip up. You've been putting that stuff in your mind.

1193
01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:52.599
You've been putting that stuff in your heart, and what's

1194
01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:53.960
in your heart's coming out.

1195
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:00.840
So he's never let any corrupt communication proceed out of

1196
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:03.079
his mouth since he's been saved. Other than the first

1197
01:05:03.079 --> 01:05:05.639
couple of hours where he said things that have been

1198
01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:07.960
said in a pulpit, where he said one word that's

1199
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.679
been said in a pulp, a Baptist pulpit. So so

1200
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:15.280
basically what he's saying is he's the example. He is

1201
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:19.639
without sin, ladies and gentlemen, He has no corrupt communication

1202
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:22.320
comes out of his mouth, no impure thoughts coming to

1203
01:05:22.519 --> 01:05:23.119
his mind.

1204
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:24.480
He want to has.

1205
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:28.320
Been completely changed. He's been completely transformed. Ladies and gentlemen,

1206
01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:37.199
He's basically God. The rest of us are just trash.

1207
01:05:37.239 --> 01:05:49.920
Man oh man.

1208
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:58.119
M, that's what this is turning into. I thank the

1209
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:00.480
God that I'm not like all these other people. But

1210
01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:05.639
I I'm good. And again, if his want to was changed,

1211
01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:09.079
why wasn't everyone else's want to changed? Why was his

1212
01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:12.400
want to change? So because he's the only saved person.

1213
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:15.480
So if you're saved, your want to is completely different.

1214
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:17.159
You don't want to sin anymore, you don't want to

1215
01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:26.119
do anything wrong anymore. Well, then where does sin come from?

1216
01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:28.960
I mean, I've heard this preached in Baptist pulpits constantly.

1217
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:35.239
You can do whatever you want, but if you're truly saved,

1218
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:38.119
your want to will only be to want to do

1219
01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:40.920
the right thing. Well, if you want to is to

1220
01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:42.800
do the right thing, then there would be no sin,

1221
01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:45.320
because where would the want to sin come from. So

1222
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:46.960
then what they try to argue is the want to

1223
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.920
sin is coming from outside. So the reason you want

1224
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:53.159
to sind is because you watch Netflix. The reason you

1225
01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:55.360
want to send is because you listen to secular music.

1226
01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:57.480
If you'll just stop watching Netflix and stop listening to

1227
01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.159
secular music, you won't want to sin because that want

1228
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:03.119
to is coming from the outside, because the inside that

1229
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:06.119
basically we're right back to what we've talked about. Their

1230
01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:09.559
view is, hey, the call is not coming from inside

1231
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:11.960
the house, because inside the house God has come in.

1232
01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:14.159
He's removed the serial killer. I know, I'm borrowing from

1233
01:07:14.199 --> 01:07:16.760
an old movie. Okay, if you get the illustration, you do.

1234
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:19.480
And so he's replaced the inside with everything on the end.

1235
01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:21.760
The call coming from the inside is you want to

1236
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:23.800
serve God. You want to do right, you want to

1237
01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:25.800
do right, you want to do right, you want to

1238
01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:28.360
do right, you want to do right. So everything on

1239
01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:32.880
the inside says do right. So all the problem is external.

1240
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:35.320
So if you'll just not watch the wrong movies, listen

1241
01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:37.719
to the wrong music, then bump bump, blah blah. You

1242
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:46.400
can be perfect, amen, Man.

1243
01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:51.960
I tell you, hey, I'm gonna tell you what laveno

1244
01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:54.400
today right now. Faint preach or psyche, they're above it.

1245
01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:57.559
God not gonna say any telling to me. God's not

1246
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:59.639
gonna do anything to me. I tell you, I'd rather

1247
01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:02.480
have a young man whether touch of God, his life

1248
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:05.000
full of the holy ghost of God, that lives a

1249
01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:08.320
pure life, a holy life, a dedicated life.

1250
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:08.559
Man.

1251
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.639
I would a man get up and he can be

1252
01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:13.199
able to decipher the scripture, and he can be able

1253
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.039
to give a great expositional message. Ah, but his heart

1254
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:17.960
not me right, you say you don't know that he.

1255
01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:20.920
I can see their lives, Tyler. When you walk through

1256
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:24.079
a tabernac hole and that guy looks over and there's

1257
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:26.319
a woman that comes up the isle and he cuts

1258
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:29.439
eignes over ader and undresses the wrong way down the aisle,

1259
01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:31.359
There's something wrong with that rascal.

1260
01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:34.720
Hey man, Raise God.

1261
01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:40.079
So okay, we've got through this. So you will not

1262
01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:43.000
have you will not drink, you will not have the

1263
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:45.640
right wrong haircut, you will not have the wrong clothes,

1264
01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:48.159
you will not listen to the wrong music, and you

1265
01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:51.479
will not look at a woman with lust in your heart.

1266
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:59.319
So basically, I mean you're not committing any sin. I

1267
01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:02.000
mean some of these we argue, I mean, are they

1268
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.920
even actual sin? But okay, so, but a man will

1269
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:07.439
no longer look at a woman with lust. If a

1270
01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:10.119
man is truly saved, he will not I guess he

1271
01:09:10.159 --> 01:09:15.039
will not look at a woman with lust. Now I

1272
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:17.119
can't speak for the women listening to this, but to

1273
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:21.079
all the men, we're all finished.

1274
01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:22.760
Now.

1275
01:09:22.920 --> 01:09:25.159
You can sit there, you know, you can sit there

1276
01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:27.520
and act like no, no, no, no, I never look

1277
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:28.479
at a woman with lust.

1278
01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:30.880
Never, never have never.

1279
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:34.399
Well, because I've been changed, Well you can. You can

1280
01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:36.680
play that game, and you can get away with it

1281
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:38.880
because nobody can tell, right, I mean, I guess he

1282
01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:40.600
can tell. I guess he can tell when a man

1283
01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:42.039
is what a man is thinking when he looks at

1284
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:43.479
a woman. I guess he can tell.

1285
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:43.800
Right.

1286
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.159
This reminds me it's been a big controversy on TikTok. Right,

1287
01:09:49.199 --> 01:09:52.079
all right, so let me try to explain it. There's

1288
01:09:52.079 --> 01:09:55.399
a lot of women when they go into a gym,

1289
01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:59.439
they love to record themselves working out, right, because they

1290
01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:02.359
are quot going to post it on TikTok. They're they're

1291
01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:05.640
a you know, an influencer. They want to influence people

1292
01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:09.159
to for better health and proper you know form when

1293
01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:12.760
lifting weights or doing whatever exercise right. Well, some of

1294
01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:16.319
these women will will get very ticked off, will get

1295
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:19.720
very upset when a man is somewhere in the gym

1296
01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:23.199
and looks over at them. Now, yes, women who go

1297
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:25.119
to a gym have had to deal with men who

1298
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:27.880
say and do things and maybe look at them in

1299
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:29.840
a way that they do not like. And I can

1300
01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:33.239
understand that that is wrong and that's messed up. Men

1301
01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:35.960
should not be doing that and making a woman feel uncomfortable.

1302
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:38.960
They should not. But in many of these instances, what

1303
01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:41.640
happens the women's filming themselves and there'll be a man

1304
01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:46.039
somewhere looking over and instantaneously they will go on TikTok

1305
01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:49.159
and put that man on full blast as being a

1306
01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:52.199
pervert or being wrong or looking at them with lust

1307
01:10:52.239 --> 01:10:55.760
and desiring them. Well, there's a there's an influencer. He's

1308
01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:59.600
he lifts weights, you know, huge his muscles you know,

1309
01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:02.960
or can't and he has called out some of these

1310
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.439
women going whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

1311
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:08.279
Now you're in a gym, you've set up an entire

1312
01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:12.279
camera system and some man looks over at what you're doing.

1313
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.520
That doesn't mean he's immediately lusting after you. If he's

1314
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:18.199
watching you work out, he's in a gem. Where are

1315
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:19.960
you going to look as a man just supposed to

1316
01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:21.880
put his head down, like, do not look, do not look,

1317
01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:23.760
do not look, do not look, do not look. You're

1318
01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:26.039
looking around. You may be looking at this person or

1319
01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:28.119
this person. Now I cannot say what the man is

1320
01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:30.279
thinking or not thinking. You may not like the man

1321
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.680
looking over at you, but you're in a public place.

1322
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:34.720
Can the man not watch whoever he wants to watch?

1323
01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:37.359
A lot lifting weights? He said, well, I don't like

1324
01:11:37.399 --> 01:11:41.039
this look. I understand there's but the point is you

1325
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:44.039
can't just immediately assume that if a man looks at you,

1326
01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:46.840
that's what he is thinking. Now, if he says something,

1327
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:49.439
if he keeps coming up to you, if he's mad, now,

1328
01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:52.079
if he's making you uncomfortable, then by all means. But

1329
01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:54.399
if you're in a public place and he's sitting there

1330
01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.319
and he looks over at you, oh he's staring at me.

1331
01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:57.880
All right?

1332
01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:01.520
So yeah, how do you work that? Well, this is

1333
01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:04.560
the same tough situation. I guess this guy has the ability.

1334
01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:06.760
If a man sees a woman walking down the aisle

1335
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:08.800
of the church and he looks at her and watches

1336
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:11.880
her that he's lusting, how can you make that determination?

1337
01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:13.840
Could the man be he could be?

1338
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:19.039
Could? I don't know what? Could?

1339
01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:21.840
I mean the argument? Couldn't the argument be flipped the

1340
01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:24.359
other way? You women who sit there in the pew

1341
01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:26.920
looking up at the man who's preaching the word of God,

1342
01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:30.000
and you're lusting, You're undressing him. You want him to

1343
01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:31.720
be in your bad I mean, couldn't you say the

1344
01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:34.319
same thing about women looking at the pastora's he's preaching.

1345
01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:40.479
That's the thing. It's an internal thing. Now, sometimes the

1346
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:45.720
internal desire will show, and however they're supposedly looking, maybe

1347
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:47.960
you think you can see it. The thing is, this

1348
01:12:48.039 --> 01:12:50.680
is the this is the problem. He now is in

1349
01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:53.079
the position where he feels he can judge not only

1350
01:12:53.119 --> 01:12:58.640
external action, he can judge internal thinking. This has been

1351
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:01.880
a major issue, especially with the gym thing again, and

1352
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:04.079
let me make it very clear. Don't anyone to misunderstand

1353
01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:08.039
there are men who act inappropriate inside gyms, and that

1354
01:13:08.079 --> 01:13:10.520
should be confronted, and that should be dealt with. Then

1355
01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:13.359
there's other situations where women just assume if a man

1356
01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:16.600
looks over at all, that that's what they're doing. And

1357
01:13:16.640 --> 01:13:18.479
I've seen some of the videos where the women are

1358
01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:20.600
calling these men out and you're like, what is the

1359
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:24.039
guy doing. The guy didn't approach you, he didn't address you,

1360
01:13:24.279 --> 01:13:26.560
he didn't speak to you. He's not like got his

1361
01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:28.399
phone up trying to get a picture of part of

1362
01:13:28.439 --> 01:13:31.119
your body, which I've seen men do, which is vile

1363
01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:34.039
and disgusting. They should not do that, I understand. But

1364
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:36.960
you've got a camera set up, you're sitting there talking

1365
01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:39.560
to the camera, you're doing all of this, you've got

1366
01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:42.239
a production going on. Well, I'm sorry, if you got

1367
01:13:42.279 --> 01:13:45.199
a production going on, someone may look at your production. Okay,

1368
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:47.319
Now at the same time they may be looking at

1369
01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:51.880
your body. I don't know. But the point is is

1370
01:13:52.159 --> 01:13:55.319
we're gonna now judge salvation on whether a man looks

1371
01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:59.880
at a woman with lust. That's now the standard of salvation.

1372
01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:04.920
But of course he doesn't do that. See. See, the

1373
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:08.840
whole implication of this sermon is all these people out

1374
01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:12.720
there are impure, but he is the standard of purity.

1375
01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:15.800
Now I know that if you confronted this path, he will say, no, No,

1376
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:19.399
that's not what I'm saying. I understand that I'm saying.

1377
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:21.159
If you put the sermon together and we follow it

1378
01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:24.960
from a logical progression of thought, that's exactly where this is.

1379
01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:28.640
That's exactly where this is going. And we're almost done.

1380
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:30.680
We're already at seventy four minutes. I thought we were done.

1381
01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:32.760
This's only got a few minutes at this point. We're

1382
01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.439
not gonna get any actual understanding of first John three.

1383
01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:40.159
We're not We're not gonna get We're not gonna get anything,

1384
01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:44.600
but we'll' at least finish this up. That's just a

1385
01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:45.319
true friend.

1386
01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:46.520
Amen.

1387
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:50.479
Pat Us one fifteen said under the pure all things

1388
01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:53.560
are pure. But under them that are defiled and unbelieving

1389
01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:56.479
is nothing pure. That means these sayings that come in

1390
01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:59.439
your behind, you will not be feel with them. God

1391
01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:03.399
with thous. I didn't say you wouldn't have done. I'm

1392
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:04.880
just saying you would not be.

1393
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:09.680
Filled with those things. Amen. You say why because you've

1394
01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:13.439
let it go. Sometimes we let it go, we make excuses.

1395
01:15:13.680 --> 01:15:16.039
So I'm twenty four and verse three, who shall send

1396
01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:18.119
under the hell of the Lord or who shall stand

1397
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:20.560
in his holy place. He the half clean hands and

1398
01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:23.399
a pure heart. Sake to Tempty two twenty two. Flee

1399
01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:27.560
also youthful us, but follow righteousness. The Bible said the

1400
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:30.800
first tempenty five twenty two has said, lay hands suddenly on.

1401
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:33.079
No man need to be partakers of other man. Sin

1402
01:15:33.399 --> 01:15:36.800
keep thyself pure of one Peter one, verse twenty two.

1403
01:15:37.159 --> 01:15:40.199
Seeing you have purified your souls and obeying the truth

1404
01:15:40.199 --> 01:15:42.840
through the spirit, unto the unfeigned love of the brethren,

1405
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:45.319
see that you love one another with a pure heart,

1406
01:15:45.720 --> 01:15:47.319
fervently Amen.

1407
01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:48.479
Sago.

1408
01:15:48.560 --> 01:15:51.199
Griffian's eleven two said, Fry, I'm jealous over you, with

1409
01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:54.439
godly jealousy, for I have espouse you to a husband

1410
01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:57.520
that I may present you as a chaste virgin too.

1411
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:01.000
Christ Paul sought to present these believers as a pure

1412
01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:02.880
virgin to Christ.

1413
01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:06.000
That word chasing that tank is the same word where

1414
01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:07.279
we get the word holy.

1415
01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:09.039
Hey, we believe in holy.

1416
01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:12.119
This a man, we are losing the heath. There used

1417
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:14.760
to be a difference in us and everybody else. Now

1418
01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:16.920
I'm not talking about to get an out of boy button,

1419
01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:19.199
and I'm not talking about where you can brag and

1420
01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:21.920
bush On, how holy you are. I'm talked about living

1421
01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:24.279
a pure life of Him that got us out of

1422
01:16:24.279 --> 01:16:27.000
the muck and mire him that saved us from our sin,

1423
01:16:27.279 --> 01:16:29.239
Him that got us out of the dives of this

1424
01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:32.000
world and gave us something worth living for him.

1425
01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:34.960
Don't you want to live for him? Don't you want

1426
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:38.920
to live a pure life for his honor in his glory? Amen?

1427
01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:42.039
Well, according to this text, he that hath this hope

1428
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:46.199
in him puerifithe himself, even as he is pure.

1429
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:49.119
I'm not a judge. I'm just telling you what you

1430
01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:49.760
judge said.

1431
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.000
These people that try to make excuses that said, well, y'all,

1432
01:16:57.159 --> 01:16:59.560
you know they gonna call you I legalist, houl that

1433
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:02.399
and no, thank you weird because you don't strive for

1434
01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:04.920
the same things they do, and you don't go the

1435
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:06.239
same places that they go.

1436
01:17:06.760 --> 01:17:09.520
I'm teddy. When you experience God's unmerited favor in the.

1437
01:17:09.520 --> 01:17:12.920
Lord Jesus Christ, you'll be motivated to please Hem.

1438
01:17:13.039 --> 01:17:15.479
You don't want to please him in everything that you do.

1439
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:18.439
I'm not saying that always do the head, but I'm

1440
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:21.560
not flipping about it that somebody say, well, yeah, no,

1441
01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:23.920
we just gotta see a little bit every day. That

1442
01:17:24.039 --> 01:17:26.119
ain't no big deal that's killing us.

1443
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:35.199
Please note, after all all of this time, inevitably it will. Well,

1444
01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:37.880
I'm not saying we always do it like he even

1445
01:17:37.960 --> 01:17:40.760
he has to admit he doesn't always do it right. See,

1446
01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:43.439
even after all of this huge talk, then even he

1447
01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:46.239
has to admit, well, we don't always do it right.

1448
01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:49.239
Meaning if we don't always do it right, then nobody

1449
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:53.439
is sinless, nobody is holy, nobody is pure. We're in

1450
01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:56.680
a perpetual state of sin. But instead of addressing that reality,

1451
01:17:56.920 --> 01:17:59.039
he just says all of those things and then just

1452
01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:01.159
kind of throws it in there. Hey, I mean, I'm

1453
01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:04.359
not saying I always do it, yeah, because you're a

1454
01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:07.680
sinner just like all the other people. Right, Okay, Now,

1455
01:18:07.800 --> 01:18:11.560
now you're just trying to figure out how to measure it.

1456
01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:14.199
It's not that you won't get impure thoughts. You just won't.

1457
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:17.399
You know, there's just a certain level of impure thoughts.

1458
01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:20.399
They won't be they won't be filled with them, but

1459
01:18:20.439 --> 01:18:24.840
you'll have Okay, Now it becomes a subjective measurement of

1460
01:18:25.079 --> 01:18:27.520
how much sin do I have versus how much sin

1461
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:30.319
I don't have. But even that is very difficult because

1462
01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:32.439
if you violate one law, you're guilty of all the law.

1463
01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:35.239
And if you're either holy or you're not holy, and

1464
01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:38.520
we're in a perpetual state of unholiness. I guess if

1465
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:40.359
you want to measure it, But now, what is he

1466
01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:45.399
measuring it? He's measuring it by simple external things.

1467
01:18:48.279 --> 01:18:55.119
Hey man, I'm talking about purification. For him. God's gracul motivates.

1468
01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:59.439
You to live different from this world. It's shed it,

1469
01:18:59.520 --> 01:19:03.000
or the Bible said, denying udondness. That means oh no,

1470
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:07.000
hah ugoddness, you ain't coming back over here no more.

1471
01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:10.880
I mean, we believe in progressive satification. We believe God

1472
01:19:10.960 --> 01:19:13.479
begins to work. We believe he begins to take his

1473
01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:15.319
word coupled with the spirit of.

1474
01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:17.640
God pointing things out in our life that are not

1475
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:19.720
right so we can get them right.

1476
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:20.920
Praise God for that.

1477
01:19:21.239 --> 01:19:23.720
But I'm telling you, if you have never been changed,

1478
01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:26.159
if you've still got the same old walt, the same

1479
01:19:26.199 --> 01:19:28.920
old talk, the same desires, you didn't get one on

1480
01:19:29.039 --> 01:19:32.199
got ready, I'm telling you, God put a love in

1481
01:19:32.279 --> 01:19:35.239
my heart for the truth and the Bible, and I

1482
01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:37.319
may not always line up with him, but there's a

1483
01:19:37.359 --> 01:19:46.159
desire I want to line up with him.

1484
01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:45.520
And so if the desire is there. If the desire

1485
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:48.720
is there, then where does the lack of obedience to

1486
01:19:48.920 --> 01:19:51.600
it come from? So like, on one hand, it's like, hey,

1487
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:54.840
your desire will be completely different. Well, if my desire

1488
01:19:54.920 --> 01:19:57.079
is completely different than that, one means the inside is

1489
01:19:57.119 --> 01:19:59.920
completely different. If the inside is completely different, then where

1490
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.119
where does the lack of obedience come from? Like there,

1491
01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:05.880
we're not even going to even have a meaningful conversation

1492
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:12.439
about this. He's just throwing out statements, platitudes, cliches, and

1493
01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:15.279
we're not gonna even deal with the reality, even though

1494
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:18.279
he's acknowledged at least a little bit that nobody's going

1495
01:20:18.359 --> 01:20:23.479
to be perfect. But yet supposedly our want tos have

1496
01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:26.960
been completely transformed. If our want to is completely transformed,

1497
01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:30.279
then where does the not want to come from? Because

1498
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:32.399
the want to has been completely transformed?

1499
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:40.359
Amen, he said me holy, for I am holy.

1500
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:42.319
Titus one sixteen.

1501
01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:44.760
He said, they profess that they know God, but it

1502
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:49.199
works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient and under every.

1503
01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:55.760
Good work, reprobate. Man, how's a purity this morning? Now?

1504
01:20:55.840 --> 01:20:59.199
We all look good in here? Pretty good? I mean

1505
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:03.279
you know some of us look better than others. Amen.

1506
01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:07.600
Hey, just a little side note. I've got some CD

1507
01:21:07.760 --> 01:21:10.479
set up back there on humility, buddy, ought to hear it.

1508
01:21:10.479 --> 01:21:13.399
You're talking about tremendous So I want you to get

1509
01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:13.600
out of this.

1510
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:18.039
Amend.

1511
01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:19.880
I had to break the I had to break the

1512
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:21.359
silence a little bit because some of you.

1513
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:26.159
Are looking it. I'm just trying to help you. Listen.

1514
01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:27.680
I'm not mad at you.

1515
01:21:28.600 --> 01:21:30.319
Hey, if you can find if you can find, hey,

1516
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:32.399
somebody in here that loves young people more than I do.

1517
01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:35.159
If Brother Morgan, I'm sure these men do. I know that.

1518
01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:39.279
Understand Now, Listen, youngs, you're not gonna be able to

1519
01:21:39.279 --> 01:21:39.920
be with what God.

1520
01:21:40.399 --> 01:21:42.479
Listen, you can't serve two masters.

1521
01:21:43.680 --> 01:21:45.079
And what you're trying to do right now, you're just

1522
01:21:45.119 --> 01:21:46.640
trying to strap You're trying to get over here.

1523
01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:48.960
He because what I don't want to look funny. And

1524
01:21:49.399 --> 01:21:50.920
it's just it's so hard.

1525
01:21:51.479 --> 01:21:55.640
Oh, it's just so hard, so hard to put on

1526
01:21:55.680 --> 01:22:07.039
that dress. It is if you're a man, man, it

1527
01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:11.600
is so difficult. I can't worri. I can't believe that, preacher, Hey, set,

1528
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:14.399
my legs are to be look like they dipped in plorogs,

1529
01:22:14.439 --> 01:22:16.840
and I can't believe that preacher saying something by my shoulds,

1530
01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:18.680
and I can't believe that preacher saying something a boy

1531
01:22:18.720 --> 01:22:20.880
my tank talk. I'm telling you, if I had legs

1532
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:22.680
like some of you fellers have, and I can tell

1533
01:22:22.720 --> 01:22:25.079
by looking at your skinny hey estimation, they don't pay

1534
01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:27.079
way herm and everybody made fun of that. Now you

1535
01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:28.199
got preachers.

1536
01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:30.079
Walking around like that, whether the preacher's there, I got

1537
01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:30.760
here right in hell.

1538
01:22:33.319 --> 01:22:36.119
I said, Now, we're just gonna mock people's physical appearance,

1539
01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:42.840
gonna mock teenagers. But that's pure and holy. Say we're

1540
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:47.119
gonna mock people. We're gonna mock physical appearance, but that's godly. See,

1541
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:49.640
that's godly. So we're not gonna look at that as

1542
01:22:49.680 --> 01:22:53.520
possible sin. Right, mocking You could be hurting someone's feelings,

1543
01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:57.239
You could be actually humiliating someone all doing it in

1544
01:22:57.279 --> 01:23:01.600
the name of Jesus. But that's pure, that's holy, or

1545
01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:09.720
that's just being a jerk. I mean, if you're gonna

1546
01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:12.239
if you're if you're gonna mock everyone's appearance, well let's

1547
01:23:12.239 --> 01:23:14.479
see what you look like. Come on, come on, where

1548
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:16.840
do I do I go? Look up this pastor's name

1549
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:18.960
and get his appearance and do I post it. All

1550
01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:20.960
of the intery go like, hey, here's the man mocking

1551
01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:21.720
everyone else.

1552
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:29.640
Good, like they got a sock on. Amen. Amen.

1553
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.079
I think yoga pants is a sin for a man

1554
01:23:33.159 --> 01:23:36.239
to wear, but I think it is an abomination for

1555
01:23:36.279 --> 01:23:37.159
a woman to wear him.

1556
01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:41.920
Amen, especially some of them I've seen in them. Amen.

1557
01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:50.319
Now he's mucking obviously overweight women. This is wonderful. This

1558
01:23:50.439 --> 01:23:54.920
is great man. Praise God for this man. All right,

1559
01:23:55.039 --> 01:24:05.600
there you go. And people don't understand my frustration and

1560
01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:10.239
just discouragement with Christianity. I'm just I'm just like, I

1561
01:24:10.279 --> 01:24:12.439
don't get it. I don't understand. We can't even have

1562
01:24:12.479 --> 01:24:16.279
a meaningful conversation about this. All right, we'll stop right there.

1563
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:19.239
This did not This did.

1564
01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:22.119
I don't even know.

1565
01:24:22.279 --> 01:24:24.479
I don't even know. I don't even know that. I

1566
01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:27.119
see where the email comes from. This does follow right

1567
01:24:27.159 --> 01:24:30.159
along with everything I was saying, basically, and how Christianity

1568
01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:32.720
handles this subject. I mean, this is a perfect example.

1569
01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:37.840
This is when I criticize Christianity's handling some of these issues.

1570
01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:41.880
It's it's because you listen to sermons. It's the same

1571
01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:46.720
standard nonsense. Nobody wants to even But even in all

1572
01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:51.119
of this showing and screaming, he has to at least acknowledge, well,

1573
01:24:51.119 --> 01:24:54.279
we're not going to do it perfectly well, even though

1574
01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:57.960
it's the contradiction, but our want to has supposedly been transformed.

1575
01:24:58.000 --> 01:24:59.720
But he's not going to explain them where this is

1576
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:02.560
want to come from. And if can and if you're

1577
01:25:02.600 --> 01:25:04.760
going to say be holy as He is holy, well

1578
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:07.000
can I do that? Well he's almost making the argument

1579
01:25:07.079 --> 01:25:09.520
that we can, but he at the same time he's

1580
01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:12.279
acknowledged acknowledging that we don't. At the same time, I

1581
01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:16.359
don't get it. All right, I'll stop right there. Thanks

1582
01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:24.239
for listening, you summarize this. I don't know what to say.

1583
01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:24.880
God bless