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Before this month is up, I have to

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get into James.

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But here we are. I'm gonna do

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not doing James yet today, but this month,

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Lends less lord just

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makes it so I can't preach for a

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while. God God forbid. But I will be

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in James sometime this month for sure, Lord

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willing, I should say. But the name of

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this message, and this is

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per many of you are familiar with. Excited

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to go through it with you because I

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think it'll challenge you it'll encourage you. It'll

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also warn you. It's the parable of the

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sow.

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It's 1 of Jesus many, many parable,

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the parable of the sow

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and it's in Luke chapter 8.

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And the Greek word that we translate into

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our English word, the new test was written

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in Greek.

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We translate to Par is from Para.

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Para.

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And their literal Greek word meant to cast

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alongside.

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Like to cast a comparison

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alongside something else.

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Like a shadow, for instance, would outline the

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reality.

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Jesus gave parable to take off natural things

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to teach spiritual truths. Amen.

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And the parable of the sow is a

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very, very important

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spiritual truth.

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He rebuked

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these things are hidden from the wise.

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Those are wise in their own eyes,

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but he reveals these things to babe.

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And actually, when you compare Matthew 13, which

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you also find the Matthew 13, Mark 4

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and Luke chapter 21, all 3 said not

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gospel, you'll see this same parable.

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And,

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he actually rebuke them for not understanding it

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at 1 point.

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He's revealed them. He's headed these things from

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the wives. Those are wise in their own

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eyes.

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He quotes from Isaiah chapter 6. What Isaiah

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says send me. I'll go.

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He says seen, you know, they will not

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see in hearing, they will not hear... And

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when you go and see that quotation in

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Isaiah. I'm sorry. Acts chapter 28.

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It says, because they closed their eyes. You

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see. And people that closed their eyes are

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given over to more and more blindness.

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People that refuse to hear give it over

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to more and more deafness. Those respond to

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light God will give more and more light

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to. But this parable

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is significant

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because it's about 4 different soils.

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It's chief about the Son man who sow

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It's about the seed, which is the word

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of God. It's about 4 souls and Jesus

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personal responsibility

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and receiving salvation

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and perseverance in salvation

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in the parable of the solar.

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Very, very powerful.

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So you I wanna make sure you have

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eyes to see You have ears to hear.

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In fact, in Luke chapter 8,

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verse 8, you know,

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what he says. But here, let's look at

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through 8.

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through 8,

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when a large crowd

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was coming together,

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and those from the various cities were joining

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to him, He spoke by way of parable.

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The sow went out to sow his seed.

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And as he sow, some fell beside the

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birds of the air ate up.

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Other seed fell on rocky soil. And as

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soon as they grew up, it with away.

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thorn grew up with it and choked it

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out. Others seat fell on the good soil.

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And grew up and produced a crop, a

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hundred times as great.

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he said these things, we read.

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He would call out. He was what.

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Ears to hear lay him wet

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to cry out. He there's... Let him here.

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Choose to be the fourth soil.

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which is hard ground,

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the pathway, the wayside.

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out and about and some would get on

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the wayside where people walked and tram the

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dirt under foot.

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the the ground because the ground was so

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hard. You see,

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and the birds of the air

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would follow the farmer as he sow. And

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if some of the seed was not covered

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up with dirt,

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they would what, take it away.

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So we're not to be the hard hearted

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land, who doesn't gl god's word

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to penetrate your heart.

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harden in your heart. The first soil then

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is the call

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represents the Call heart, and we'll get into

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that in a minute. But you see 4

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souls here.

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It says, now the parable is this, the

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is the word of god.

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So the seed that's being sown is wet.

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God's word, amen.

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God's word is being planted in hearts.

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Matthew chapter 13 verse 37,

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a different parable. Jesus says he who sow

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the good seed is the son of man.

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Talking about the wheat and the tears at

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that point. But you can understand that Jesus

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is the store here as well, but he

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uses who.

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Us, amen.

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That's why I love Acts chapter 1, the

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first few verses.

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Where Luke, who writes the book of acts

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also wrote the Gospel of Luke.

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And he says, in his second letter, he

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addressed both him to theo,

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which somebody believes a literal man named Theo,

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and keep imagine having Luke and written into

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you, painstakingly

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what just for him. His name is love

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of God amen. But in acts, he says

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that in my first book I wrote to

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all that the lord began to do.

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again. Is San amen. That's what he began

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to. Looks about what He began to you.

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I'll check this out. And acts checked all

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28 chapters is what he continued to do

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amen after he san Amen because he continues

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to sow the seed and he uses his

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believers, Amen.

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And the Sun is still sowing to this

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the seed is the word.

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For you have been born again, not seed.

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How you were born again, listen to this.

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You've been born again, not of seed, which

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is perishable.

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say, that is through the living, the living

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and enduring word of god. God's word is

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alive, amen.

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It's living an active act or hebrews 04:12.

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Sharpening 8 2 sword amen.

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alive. It's inspired by the holy spirit.

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second Peter Chapter 1, that holy man of

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spirit as they speak.

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a spiritual book. So just like there's a

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physical seed, sp,

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you know, in the Greek that brings for

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physical life, there's spiritual seed.

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Which brings for spiritual life. Amen.

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because we're born again, it says by incredible,

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forever every amen. Jesus says my,

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heaven Earth will pass away, but my words

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Never pass away. Now let's look at the

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act or Luke chapter 8, verse 12.

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The first row, those beside the road.

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Are those who have heard?

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word from their wet,

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from their heart, so that they will not

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believe and be saved. Amen.

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roadside, you know, where people walk along the

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road, but on the side of the road,

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you sometimes get off the side, and it's

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all worn all everywhere. Those guys they represent

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those who hear the word.

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But the birds that take away the seed

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represent the devil

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who takes the seed out of their hearts.

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the hearts? So that they were what? What

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it say?

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So they will not what?

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Believe abby what.

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Saved. It's important to understand from the context

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of Luke chapter 8 in the purpose of

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sow that belief when you put your trust

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in Jesus

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it brings what.

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Salvation.

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So satan's objectives that keep them from believing

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because Jesus makes it clear if they believe

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and receive the word and they believe in

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him, they'd be what. Saved because Apollo says

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by grace. We saved through faith, through faith,

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belief.

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works the anyone should boast. Jesus said in

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John 03:16 for God to love the world

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that he gave him when you got sunday

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whoever ever wed.

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So he has to keep them from believing.

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So they're not saved

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Before you get saved,

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Sai all over you, man.

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He's just trying to blind you to the

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truth.

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The people you're witnessing to.

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Satan is a master of deception.

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He seeks to keep their eyes on other

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things. Keep them bitter, keep their heart hard,

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keep them from receiving the word and implant

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it being implant in their hearts.

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In fact second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 4

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says, if our gospel is veil or hidden.

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It's hidden because the God of this world

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Satan,

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has blinded the minds of those that believe

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not. That's the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ,

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whose image of God should shine unto them.

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So Satan blinds people from the gospel,

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from their need of salvation.

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How many have witnessed the people that are

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just so hard hearted

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you might as what we talking to a

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light post or something. You know?

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They're just un unsolved by what you're sharing.

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That's a lot of people.

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Now, I love how the lord's ind

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in who he shares the word with.

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It's on all these soils. Amen.

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Some you say, well, I'm just gonna go

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after a witness to fourth soil people, man.

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I'll be more successful.

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You know? Well, we don't know 4 so

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people are.

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Sometimes people seem open.

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Right?

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Then they become quite closed. Others seem closed

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like the apostle paul,

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who in acts chapter 7,

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Stephen said to him and others?

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Because you're s them to death, how long

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will you continue to resist the holy spirit?

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Lord said to Paul when he con... When

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he was converted, you know, how long he

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talked about it he said you're kicking against

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the goats, the prick.

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You're kicking against the entrance of the word

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of Christ,

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but guess what? Part of change of heart

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and said he wasn't dis disobedience to the

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heavenly vision.

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So some people give you seem really hearted,

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but man, you keep witnessing to a amen.

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Now it's interesting because

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We want

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in regard to the hard person. And this

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isn't just for you personally as far as

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how does this fit with me what's what

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heart am my I is is important because

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your heart can become 1 through 4.

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You your heart could be 2.

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That it could become 3, that it can

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become 4. It could start out as 4,

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and then it can become 2 or 3

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as we go through these.

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Hearts change. So Alert tells us to guard

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our hearts with without diligence because the soils

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represent 4 different human conditions.

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God commands us this soften in our hearts.

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We're just not to harden in the hearts.

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Amen.

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So hearts can change.

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So why it's important to watch your heart

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and guard with all diligence because out of

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it come the springs of life.

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So Hebrews reached chapter 12 says see to

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it in verse 15.

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Right after verse 14 where it says without

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holding this no 1 will see the lord.

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See you to it that over root a

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bitterness and it springs up in you, which

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def files many.

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So we need to watch our hearts, make

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sure we keep them soft.

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But this is also instructive for those you're

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witnessing to.

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Because when you're sharing the gospel,

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you have a relationship with that person,

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you can't make them born again, amen.

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You're the hands the feet of the sow.

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He sow through us,

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but he's the 1 that gives increase,

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but responsible

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to pray for people to share with people

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to encourage people.

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So in respect to our own ministry when

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we're witnessing and share in the gospel. It's

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important

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that we keep this curve to mind.

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I use this sometimes

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this parable when I disciple people.

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I remember the first... Don't know if it

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was called Revive then, but break the out

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there in that parking lot chad and the

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those guys got that team going and got

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a ban and people came that we didn't

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know. And 1 young marine, he was a

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marine. Right, Chad?

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Became a marine marine. He was a young

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guy.

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I guess it was in boot camp or

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whatever

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or on on his way. And he received

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Christ

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and Chad came up and he goes, oh,

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that's interesting.

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Because after he prayed to receive Christ with

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me,

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I was leading through a text of scripture.

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So I goes, oh, that's good. That makes

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sense. I was taken through the parable of

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so.

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Same which harder are you gonna be?

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Challenge him

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to make sure that he's the fourth soul

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because the fourth soul is the only 1

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that makes it in the end.

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There's 4 souls, only 1 in 4 and

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up saved in the end. Not saying the

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other 2 of the other ones weren't saved

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it. Sometime time I'm just saying in the

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end. There's only 1 that persevere

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in salvation. So I challenged him I encourage

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him with this parable

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to keep his eyes

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on Jesus. And this is something you could

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keep in mind when you're praying for people.

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When you're sharing with friends with family members,

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I don't know what so they are for

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sure, lord, but you'll reveal it, but I'll

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pray that the hearts are soft if they're

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not receiving your word.

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And then we'll look at the other soils

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as well.

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So we could pray that God with soften

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hearts, amen.

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In fact, Jeremiah Have 4 3 says this.

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For this is what the Lord says to

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the men of Judah. And Jerusalem, break up

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your un cloud ground.

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People can have hard hearts. You get warn

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them, hey, You got a hard heart. Break

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up your on cloud ground. Jose 10:12 says,

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break up your fellow ground. That's hard, ground

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that's not good for planning. Jesus

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lives in an agrarian culture. Even though he's

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a craftsman,

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the word we translate carp means Craftsman.

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So you might have done various crafts, you

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know,

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women at the go women's industry or everything.

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Oh, he did this now. I mean, like,

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metal work maybe and wood work and maybe

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some of the stuff you guys need to.

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You guys do cool stuff. But he was

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Craftsman, but he used nature constantly because you

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didn't have to be a gardner,

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a farmer

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because everything around them was nature.

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And he uses as parable and he's god

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in the flesh.

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Break up the fellow ground For it is

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time to seek the lord

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tell he come and reign righteous upon you.

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So the scriptures that talk about breaking up

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that heart and ground. We can pray Lord.

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You're sharing with somebody who's heart hearted, pray

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for them.

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Amen, by wave of application. I'm encourage you,

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pray for your last friends.

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Not just once or twice, but keep them

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as part of your

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on your perilous. Amen. You'll be amazed what

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the lord does. Very, very important.

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Because that hard ground needs to be pierced.

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But no word God is sharpen 200 sword.

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Conspiracy name amen.

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Fact, acts chapter 2 verse 37 says Peter's

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words. What he preach. First message after Jesus

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rose to the dead, the Pent message. And

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all these 3000 people got saved.

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Peter's words pierced their hearts,

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It's so what it says, I quote for

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verse 3 7. Peter's words, pierced their hearts,

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and they said to him, and to the

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other... Through the other apostles, brothers. What should

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we do?

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They wanna know how to be saved. They

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were convicted of their sins.

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They you knew they need to get right

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with God.

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Because Peter talks about how they need to

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be saved.

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So it's important when you're dealing with hard

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hearts

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that you show the love of God.

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And the kindness of god that leads repentance,

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but you also show the law of God

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and the righteousness of God and how they're

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headed toward judgment if they don't repent.

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It's like that old story,

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I think Ray comfort made this story up,

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if I remember right.

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And it's just not... And I'll just give

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you a 1 minute version of this story,

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but,

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the

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pilot is flying this big old jet, and

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all sudden he realizes the fuse lodge has

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a big old hole and a gaping hole

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and fuel is coming out an extraordinary speed.

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And he tells the, you know, modify it

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a little bit he tells a couple of

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the

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sorta.

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They'll comp stories anymore today. Where they call?

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Flight attendant

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to be politically collect. Correct. I'll say store

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is still. Okay.

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Okay. Tell us the store this is

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He says, you know, you you know, we're

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going down in about 25 minutes, half hour,

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Max.

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You need to get these parachutes.

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On the people. But don't freak out. I'm

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not gonna mention it because they'll be mayhem,

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they'll be chaos, go to them privately.

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You go what. I wanna... You go on

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the next.

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And let them know what's going on

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and

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get them to put these parachutes on because

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we have a number of these small parachutes.

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They'll save a lot of lives.

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1 store is like, okay. But she's like

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the type where... She watches Joel os a

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lot. And she doesn't wanna be too hard.

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So she goes and says, hey,

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you know, if you wear this prayer, you'll

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have a better life now.

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Okay.

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And that's... I was a top selling

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international book for a while that You wrote.

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And you'll you'll have prosperity. You have health

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and wealth and you'll just a grade in

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a too,

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and the person's like,

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okay. Just put the parachute on.

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The other... How many people are gonna put

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the parachute on with that message?

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How many hearts are gonna be changed?

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The other tortoise is like, hey. I can't

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talk to you loud,

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but there's a gaping hold the fuse of

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lodge.

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And

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the pilot they want me to rattle people,

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but I got a parachute for you because

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we're gonna go down, and you're gonna be

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just inc in the ball when we hit

550
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the ground unless you wear the parachute.

551
00:18:59,212 --> 00:19:00,405
How successfully do you think she is.

552
00:19:02,313 --> 00:19:03,665
A lot more successfully men.

553
00:19:04,937 --> 00:19:05,096
Okay.

554
00:19:06,209 --> 00:19:08,538
We don't get to change god's word

555
00:19:09,561 --> 00:19:10,751
and stick our finger there and say, okay,

556
00:19:10,830 --> 00:19:11,782
what do people want to hear.

557
00:19:12,496 --> 00:19:14,320
Bob once people tickle people's ears in the

558
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,907
last days, telling them what they wanna hear,

559
00:19:16,065 --> 00:19:16,144
amen?

560
00:19:17,747 --> 00:19:19,177
And by the way, if you're just putting

561
00:19:19,256 --> 00:19:21,162
Jesus on, not to save you, That's not

562
00:19:21,162 --> 00:19:22,115
even the biblical Jesus.

563
00:19:23,307 --> 00:19:24,895
The real Jesus is the savior of the

564
00:19:24,895 --> 00:19:26,086
world. He came to die for our sins.

565
00:19:26,659 --> 00:19:29,137
To save us from judgment, to save us

566
00:19:29,137 --> 00:19:31,614
from ourselves, to save us from hell, to

567
00:19:31,614 --> 00:19:33,452
save us from sin, to save us from

568
00:19:33,452 --> 00:19:34,731
death, to save us from the wrath of

569
00:19:34,731 --> 00:19:36,030
god that we deserve, amen

570
00:19:36,504 --> 00:19:37,861
So what awesome God we have.

571
00:19:38,499 --> 00:19:40,255
So it's important that we get this right,

572
00:19:40,814 --> 00:19:41,952
and that we're praying

573
00:19:42,809 --> 00:19:45,220
that God would pierce people's hearts. Fact, it's

574
00:19:45,220 --> 00:19:47,220
interesting. My wife didn't know what message I

575
00:19:47,220 --> 00:19:49,460
was preparing 2 different messages for today. I

576
00:19:49,460 --> 00:19:52,019
continue to pray. And yesterday, sometime, I... But

577
00:19:52,019 --> 00:19:53,059
she didn't know this was 1 of my

578
00:19:53,059 --> 00:19:53,380
messages.

579
00:19:54,350 --> 00:19:56,097
And I was gonna preach a variation of

580
00:19:56,097 --> 00:19:58,480
what I did up at Jonathan Church. By

581
00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,830
said, I'm gonna go this route today,

582
00:20:00,625 --> 00:20:02,372
yesterday, I thought I'd do that. So today

583
00:20:02,451 --> 00:20:02,928
I'm preaching this.

584
00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:06,059
But I was already had my notes written

585
00:20:06,059 --> 00:20:08,059
and everything else. And we're praying, Lisa and

586
00:20:08,140 --> 00:20:09,839
I and actually h Chad and

587
00:20:10,140 --> 00:20:12,630
my daughter, Heather and Adam and we're praying

588
00:20:12,630 --> 00:20:14,777
and there's few other young people there and

589
00:20:14,777 --> 00:20:15,834
we're praying for

590
00:20:16,208 --> 00:20:18,355
somebody's relative that doesn't go here. Just that

591
00:20:18,355 --> 00:20:19,627
the person would come to know Jesus.

592
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,039
Be saved out of drugs and everything else.

593
00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:25,399
And my wife pray Lord, you know, keep

594
00:20:25,399 --> 00:20:27,480
that person from the evil 1. I'm like,

595
00:20:29,091 --> 00:20:31,084
Amen. Satan tries to steal to eat. Amen.

596
00:20:31,562 --> 00:20:33,156
And then she said, and Lord, this is

597
00:20:33,156 --> 00:20:34,432
her heart. And she prayed it with passion.

598
00:20:34,591 --> 00:20:37,076
And Lord Pierce Pierce says heart. I'm like,

599
00:20:37,872 --> 00:20:40,658
good girl. You know? Pierce says alright Amen.

600
00:20:41,215 --> 00:20:43,205
Because hearts need to be Pierce with the

601
00:20:43,205 --> 00:20:44,797
word of God. And when Peter preached their

602
00:20:44,797 --> 00:20:45,673
hearts were pierced amen.

603
00:20:46,484 --> 00:20:48,637
Don't hold back. Don't be arrogant, don't be,

604
00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:51,667
you know, proud, share and humility with love,

605
00:20:51,826 --> 00:20:53,660
but let people know, hey. I'm in the

606
00:20:53,660 --> 00:20:55,016
same boat with you without Jesus.

607
00:20:55,509 --> 00:20:57,423
You need Jesus to be saved. Amen.

608
00:20:58,859 --> 00:21:00,295
And we have all kinds of tracks we

609
00:21:00,295 --> 00:21:02,129
make available, Amen, because you might be like,

610
00:21:02,448 --> 00:21:04,442
it's hard to get long discussion. Sometimes, pass

611
00:21:04,442 --> 00:21:05,000
out tracks,

612
00:21:06,129 --> 00:21:07,797
so many people been safe through tracks, guys.

613
00:21:09,783 --> 00:21:11,690
I mean, this is 1 huge track right

614
00:21:11,690 --> 00:21:12,087
here, man.

615
00:21:12,818 --> 00:21:14,174
Millions of millions of millions of people saved

616
00:21:14,174 --> 00:21:16,408
through this. You take chunks of this this

617
00:21:16,408 --> 00:21:17,763
this book. You take the message.

618
00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:19,221
It it

619
00:21:19,598 --> 00:21:21,034
delighted the Lord to save people through the

620
00:21:21,034 --> 00:21:22,310
preaching of the gospel of the Bible says.

621
00:21:23,842 --> 00:21:25,119
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the

622
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:25,837
word of God. Amen.

623
00:21:26,556 --> 00:21:27,674
Whoever caused upon the name of the lord

624
00:21:27,674 --> 00:21:28,472
will be saved. Amen.

625
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:31,266
So we need you share the word of

626
00:21:31,346 --> 00:21:31,585
God.

627
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,600
And we need to love people. Guys.

628
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:35,440
We need to love people.

629
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,880
Wrap arms around them, encourage them, go the

630
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:39,359
extra mile.

631
00:21:40,494 --> 00:21:41,773
You see someone in need that you're sharing

632
00:21:41,773 --> 00:21:43,771
with, try to help their their their material

633
00:21:43,771 --> 00:21:45,769
need if you can. Not a can every

634
00:21:45,769 --> 00:21:47,527
every time, but try to be... Oh, just

635
00:21:47,527 --> 00:21:48,566
give it. Jesus said if you give a

636
00:21:48,566 --> 00:21:50,495
glass of water to someone. Cold water, you

637
00:21:50,495 --> 00:21:52,166
won't lose your reward. Those little things are

638
00:21:52,166 --> 00:21:52,405
huge.

639
00:21:53,598 --> 00:21:56,225
Have you heard me say before, in my

640
00:21:56,225 --> 00:21:58,476
messages is just by giving somebody a hug

641
00:21:59,660 --> 00:22:00,613
you can melt their hearts.

642
00:22:01,565 --> 00:22:02,518
You hear me say that. Right?

643
00:22:03,232 --> 00:22:05,296
Well, it was a trip because when we

644
00:22:05,296 --> 00:22:06,192
presented this

645
00:22:06,978 --> 00:22:09,282
And it was cool. From Monday, we got

646
00:22:09,282 --> 00:22:10,077
there, there was a slab.

647
00:22:12,063 --> 00:22:13,732
Thursday night, Thursday afternoon,

648
00:22:14,462 --> 00:22:15,018
it was done,

649
00:22:15,733 --> 00:22:18,298
and we all gathered around, and everybody

650
00:22:18,672 --> 00:22:19,172
encouraged,

651
00:22:19,625 --> 00:22:21,532
you know, the new family, and I had

652
00:22:21,532 --> 00:22:23,279
the key to give to them because I

653
00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:23,779
was

654
00:22:24,328 --> 00:22:25,944
everything up, including the roof

655
00:22:26,639 --> 00:22:27,436
and drywall.

656
00:22:28,073 --> 00:22:29,587
It was just awesome to see that happen.

657
00:22:29,986 --> 00:22:31,101
There's that family of 7.

658
00:22:31,914 --> 00:22:32,955
And I was able to give them the

659
00:22:32,955 --> 00:22:33,195
key.

660
00:22:33,914 --> 00:22:34,235
But...

661
00:22:36,075 --> 00:22:37,914
But what was interesting they shared and when

662
00:22:38,075 --> 00:22:40,329
Carlos the dad of the 7 shared and

663
00:22:40,329 --> 00:22:41,369
this is a faithful brother.

664
00:22:42,170 --> 00:22:43,849
Jonathan said that he's at all the meetings

665
00:22:43,849 --> 00:22:44,009
man.

666
00:22:45,049 --> 00:22:47,049
He's at all the the the witnessing, they

667
00:22:47,049 --> 00:22:48,984
go witnessing together. He He makes it the

668
00:22:48,984 --> 00:22:50,901
service and he's such a dedicated man of

669
00:22:50,981 --> 00:22:53,299
God. And he had AAA very bad pass

670
00:22:53,299 --> 00:22:55,376
him and his wife both were gang bang

671
00:22:55,376 --> 00:22:56,016
types. Okay?

672
00:22:57,228 --> 00:22:58,582
Over here in the states even they went

673
00:22:58,582 --> 00:22:59,220
back to Mexico.

674
00:22:59,777 --> 00:23:00,653
But his life changed.

675
00:23:01,450 --> 00:23:03,361
And I didn't expect this, but I would

676
00:23:03,361 --> 00:23:05,034
say, even give someone a hug could melt

677
00:23:05,034 --> 00:23:07,122
their hearts, God could use just give people

678
00:23:07,122 --> 00:23:08,719
love, they're not used to it. Show them

679
00:23:08,798 --> 00:23:10,395
Jesus. They'll know you by your love for

680
00:23:10,395 --> 00:23:11,193
1 another as well.

681
00:23:12,231 --> 00:23:14,226
And as he's sharing, he said a couple

682
00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:14,625
years ago.

683
00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:17,277
He he said and he he said when

684
00:23:17,357 --> 00:23:18,955
I came and I saw him.

685
00:23:20,074 --> 00:23:22,152
I feel bad. Didn't remember the specific incident.

686
00:23:23,111 --> 00:23:23,510
He said,

687
00:23:24,323 --> 00:23:25,757
pastor Joe came and gave me a big

688
00:23:25,757 --> 00:23:26,872
hug, and he goes,

689
00:23:27,828 --> 00:23:28,965
and he started balling

690
00:23:29,421 --> 00:23:30,059
as he sharing.

691
00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:33,006
And then I knew this was my family.

692
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:34,851
As was part of the family of God

693
00:23:34,851 --> 00:23:36,600
you're... And he just... And and and I

694
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,077
thought, wow.

695
00:23:38,031 --> 00:23:40,734
You know? I felt bad that Forgot because

696
00:23:40,734 --> 00:23:42,404
you suck so many people. Right? You loved

697
00:23:42,404 --> 00:23:44,091
so many people. But praise God, I'd hug

698
00:23:44,091 --> 00:23:46,085
him like, 30 times through the last 5

699
00:23:46,085 --> 00:23:47,520
days too. You know?

700
00:23:48,557 --> 00:23:49,673
Just show people love.

701
00:23:50,311 --> 00:23:51,587
Nurture those seeds. Amen.

702
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,480
Nurture those seeds, water them.

703
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,440
Amen. All this is very, very important.

704
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,960
Now, the first heart is the call heart.

705
00:24:02,174 --> 00:24:04,335
The first heart is the call heart. It's

706
00:24:04,335 --> 00:24:04,654
hard.

707
00:24:05,295 --> 00:24:06,575
We gotta pray for those people.

708
00:24:08,015 --> 00:24:09,868
And Paul, the chief of sinner had a

709
00:24:09,868 --> 00:24:11,564
hard heart, he said he was filled anger

710
00:24:11,701 --> 00:24:12,680
and vengeance

711
00:24:13,057 --> 00:24:13,854
toward the gospel,

712
00:24:14,412 --> 00:24:15,528
a violent ag aggressive.

713
00:24:16,245 --> 00:24:16,883
Well guess what?

714
00:24:18,254 --> 00:24:21,131
The ne heart is a shallow heart. First

715
00:24:21,131 --> 00:24:23,309
heart, the first soil represents a

716
00:24:23,688 --> 00:24:26,485
call heart. The second 1 represents a shallow

717
00:24:26,485 --> 00:24:28,170
heart. Look at chapter 8 verse 13.

718
00:24:31,347 --> 00:24:32,936
Chapter 8 verse 13 of Luke.

719
00:24:34,127 --> 00:24:35,398
Do we have that up on the screen?

720
00:24:39,708 --> 00:24:40,663
Hey, Ben didn't give it to him.

721
00:24:41,777 --> 00:24:43,448
I love the field, though. It's beautiful.

722
00:24:44,738 --> 00:24:45,696
No Luke 08:13?

723
00:24:46,814 --> 00:24:48,250
I might have just spit that 1. Either

724
00:24:48,250 --> 00:24:50,086
way, no. It doesn't matter. I'll read it.

725
00:24:50,406 --> 00:24:51,763
If... And by the way, we don't wanna

726
00:24:51,763 --> 00:24:52,880
to depend totally on the screen. Right?

727
00:24:53,693 --> 00:24:54,891
We won't be able to bring this screen

728
00:24:54,891 --> 00:24:57,126
with us during the tribulation period guys. K?

729
00:24:57,365 --> 00:24:59,919
Make sure you know your bible. Amen. Luke

730
00:24:59,919 --> 00:25:00,877
08:13

731
00:25:00,877 --> 00:25:01,915
if it was happened on lifetime.

732
00:25:02,645 --> 00:25:05,049
Those on the rocky soil

733
00:25:05,421 --> 00:25:06,214
are those who...

734
00:25:06,849 --> 00:25:09,149
Now, this is not the hard soil. It's

735
00:25:09,149 --> 00:25:09,943
the rocky soil.

736
00:25:10,672 --> 00:25:12,815
Those at Rocky are those who when they

737
00:25:12,815 --> 00:25:14,720
hear, receive the word with what.

738
00:25:15,910 --> 00:25:16,466
With joy.

739
00:25:17,815 --> 00:25:18,450
They're sincere.

740
00:25:21,572 --> 00:25:22,370
They have this joy.

741
00:25:23,327 --> 00:25:25,720
Wow Jesus died for me. He's he died

742
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,076
to save me and they they they put

743
00:25:27,076 --> 00:25:28,591
their faith in him because it says they

744
00:25:28,591 --> 00:25:31,878
believe Those on the Rocky soil are those

745
00:25:31,878 --> 00:25:35,093
who when they hear receive the word with

746
00:25:35,311 --> 00:25:35,790
joy.

747
00:25:36,828 --> 00:25:37,865
And these have no what.

748
00:25:39,319 --> 00:25:41,159
Firm root. They have no firm root.

749
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,000
They believe for what?

750
00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:45,960
They believe for... Just say they don't believe

751
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,149
at all. Know they believe for a while

752
00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:50,672
and a time of temptation, what do they

753
00:25:50,672 --> 00:25:50,831
do?

754
00:25:52,262 --> 00:25:53,297
They fall away.

755
00:25:54,109 --> 00:25:56,670
There are many, many, many scriptures that weren't

756
00:25:56,670 --> 00:25:57,549
against falling away.

757
00:25:58,990 --> 00:26:00,830
Unfortunately, a big lie in the church is

758
00:26:00,830 --> 00:26:02,109
that Christians can't fall away.

759
00:26:04,285 --> 00:26:05,804
Well, that's kinda weird that there's all these

760
00:26:05,804 --> 00:26:07,565
warnings about falling away? Why would you warn

761
00:26:07,565 --> 00:26:09,644
something... Why would you warn believers over and

762
00:26:09,644 --> 00:26:11,404
over again but not to fall away if

763
00:26:11,404 --> 00:26:12,778
they can't fall away. Amen.

764
00:26:15,573 --> 00:26:17,808
And they are falling away. If 1 of

765
00:26:17,808 --> 00:26:19,484
my granddaughter comes in and says, I was

766
00:26:19,484 --> 00:26:21,081
sweden and I was playing on the monkey

767
00:26:21,081 --> 00:26:23,173
bars out back pop up and look at

768
00:26:23,173 --> 00:26:24,770
my legs. IIII

769
00:26:24,770 --> 00:26:25,649
fell off the monkey bars.

770
00:26:26,368 --> 00:26:28,205
Would I assume she was never on the

771
00:26:28,285 --> 00:26:28,685
Mack bars.

772
00:26:29,577 --> 00:26:31,570
Or I assume she was on the monkey

773
00:26:31,570 --> 00:26:31,809
bars.

774
00:26:32,447 --> 00:26:33,882
She's on the monkey part. She fell away.

775
00:26:34,121 --> 00:26:35,237
And the Bob talks about how you could

776
00:26:35,237 --> 00:26:37,071
fall away from the living god.

777
00:26:37,644 --> 00:26:39,635
That's not just a profession of faith. That's

778
00:26:39,635 --> 00:26:41,149
a possession of a relation with God.

779
00:26:41,945 --> 00:26:44,733
So these folks with the shallow hearts fall

780
00:26:44,733 --> 00:26:46,167
away. They don't have firm roots.

781
00:26:47,539 --> 00:26:48,819
Now in those days guys.

782
00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:51,240
And

783
00:26:52,099 --> 00:26:53,779
going to israel is just a mind blow.

784
00:26:54,420 --> 00:26:54,579
K?

785
00:26:56,032 --> 00:26:56,532
Because

786
00:26:57,866 --> 00:26:59,302
you see so many things that you read

787
00:26:59,302 --> 00:26:59,462
about.

788
00:27:00,259 --> 00:27:01,615
And 1 thing you see in Israel is

789
00:27:01,615 --> 00:27:02,492
rocks everywhere.

790
00:27:03,450 --> 00:27:04,566
It's very, very rocky.

791
00:27:05,459 --> 00:27:06,734
In fact, there's a lot of bedrock that

792
00:27:06,734 --> 00:27:09,364
just has 2, 3 inches of dirt on

793
00:27:09,364 --> 00:27:09,524
it,

794
00:27:11,676 --> 00:27:12,951
and it get captures some moisture.

795
00:27:13,684 --> 00:27:14,164
The dirt.

796
00:27:15,525 --> 00:27:16,025
But

797
00:27:16,484 --> 00:27:17,444
you sow seed on it.

798
00:27:18,164 --> 00:27:19,684
Comes up fast. It's got some roots,

799
00:27:20,484 --> 00:27:22,164
but they're not firm often.

800
00:27:23,536 --> 00:27:25,206
And when you look at Matthew and Mark,

801
00:27:25,445 --> 00:27:26,876
when they talk about this doctor at gospel,

802
00:27:27,592 --> 00:27:28,967
Jesus talks about his son

803
00:27:30,137 --> 00:27:31,194
is so intense

804
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:33,023
they just dry up and die.

805
00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:36,459
And that's a picture of as Matthew 13

806
00:27:36,459 --> 00:27:36,699
says,

807
00:27:38,298 --> 00:27:41,747
persecution and tribulation, when persecution tribulation come. Or

808
00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:44,130
the ns friction and persecution come.

809
00:27:45,084 --> 00:27:45,799
They fall away.

810
00:27:46,991 --> 00:27:47,888
And that's

811
00:27:48,262 --> 00:27:50,764
because of the scorching persecution or

812
00:27:51,223 --> 00:27:51,462
temptation.

813
00:27:52,661 --> 00:27:53,699
So it's interesting here.

814
00:27:54,977 --> 00:27:55,217
Again,

815
00:27:58,108 --> 00:27:59,946
Those how the rockies saw are those when

816
00:27:59,946 --> 00:28:00,446
they

817
00:28:00,825 --> 00:28:01,145
hear,

818
00:28:01,704 --> 00:28:03,702
receive the word with joy, and these have

819
00:28:03,702 --> 00:28:04,981
no firm root they believe for a while

820
00:28:04,981 --> 00:28:05,940
in the time of temptation.

821
00:28:06,592 --> 00:28:07,092
Fall

822
00:28:07,545 --> 00:28:07,783
away.

823
00:28:08,736 --> 00:28:08,975
Now,

824
00:28:09,928 --> 00:28:11,039
it's important to get this.

825
00:28:11,913 --> 00:28:12,413
Context.

826
00:28:13,421 --> 00:28:15,327
In verse 12, the verse right before that.

827
00:28:16,374 --> 00:28:17,112
What happens

828
00:28:17,486 --> 00:28:19,256
if the devil not able to

829
00:28:20,185 --> 00:28:21,931
take the seat out and the hard rock,

830
00:28:22,249 --> 00:28:22,725
hard soil.

831
00:28:24,013 --> 00:28:25,290
Believes they will be wet.

832
00:28:26,726 --> 00:28:28,721
They'll be saved. That's first 12. He takes

833
00:28:28,721 --> 00:28:30,157
a seat out. So they won't believe and

834
00:28:30,157 --> 00:28:30,716
be saved.

835
00:28:31,368 --> 00:28:33,669
So in the context of Jesus teaching here,

836
00:28:34,145 --> 00:28:36,922
believe bring salvation. Amen? Amen Well, guess what.

837
00:28:37,556 --> 00:28:39,008
These folks believed

838
00:28:39,793 --> 00:28:40,348
for a while,

839
00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:44,815
which contextual that shows. They were saved for

840
00:28:44,871 --> 00:28:45,426
a while,

841
00:28:46,219 --> 00:28:47,989
Well, how do you know they were sincere

842
00:28:48,218 --> 00:28:49,251
How you know they didn't just say it

843
00:28:49,251 --> 00:28:50,362
and they were grumpy Didn't want anything to

844
00:28:50,362 --> 00:28:52,189
do with Jesus? Because it said they received

845
00:28:52,189 --> 00:28:52,983
the word with what?

846
00:28:53,778 --> 00:28:55,684
With joy. They were sincere men.

847
00:28:57,924 --> 00:29:00,558
Don't impose some rigid theology on the bible

848
00:29:00,558 --> 00:29:02,793
and try to explain Jesus clear teaching away.

849
00:29:03,751 --> 00:29:05,108
There are people who believe for a while.

850
00:29:05,267 --> 00:29:06,305
They're excited about Jesus.

851
00:29:07,035 --> 00:29:07,694
But then

852
00:29:08,385 --> 00:29:08,885
persecution

853
00:29:09,337 --> 00:29:09,575
comes,

854
00:29:10,845 --> 00:29:11,798
temptation comes,

855
00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:13,702
tribulation comes,

856
00:29:14,194 --> 00:29:15,387
and it's important that we get this.

857
00:29:16,103 --> 00:29:18,171
In fact, by the way, the first seed

858
00:29:18,171 --> 00:29:19,285
never brought life did it.

859
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:20,717
First all. Right?

860
00:29:21,449 --> 00:29:22,887
That stash the seed away. There's no life.

861
00:29:23,287 --> 00:29:26,323
The second third and fourth seed all bring

862
00:29:26,323 --> 00:29:26,643
life.

863
00:29:27,601 --> 00:29:30,174
Life is a the seed is implanted it's

864
00:29:30,174 --> 00:29:31,294
received. There's new life.

865
00:29:32,095 --> 00:29:34,894
That's a picture of regeneration, being born again,

866
00:29:35,615 --> 00:29:35,775
salvation.

867
00:29:37,148 --> 00:29:38,738
The first 1 believes for a while and

868
00:29:38,738 --> 00:29:40,725
there's even fruit, a little bit of fruit.

869
00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:41,996
They have the joy.

870
00:29:42,791 --> 00:29:45,194
Fruit the spheres love, peace joy, There got

871
00:29:45,194 --> 00:29:46,954
joy in of in the Lord in his

872
00:29:46,954 --> 00:29:47,194
word.

873
00:29:48,234 --> 00:29:49,755
The natural man hasn't receive the things of

874
00:29:49,755 --> 00:29:51,434
spirit, but these guys receive it for time.

875
00:29:52,646 --> 00:29:55,271
So they become supernatural full, filled with joy,

876
00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:57,817
but then they sadly fall away.

877
00:29:58,931 --> 00:30:00,465
There are many, many, many passages

878
00:30:01,253 --> 00:30:03,581
that warrant about falling away. In fact, it's

879
00:30:03,797 --> 00:30:04,909
1 of the signs of the times.

880
00:30:05,943 --> 00:30:07,612
Jesus said in matthew 24 10 that in

881
00:30:07,612 --> 00:30:09,679
the last days many will fall away.

882
00:30:10,409 --> 00:30:11,766
But verse 13 he goes on to say,

883
00:30:12,085 --> 00:30:13,521
but the 1 who endure the end will

884
00:30:13,521 --> 00:30:13,840
be what.

885
00:30:14,797 --> 00:30:16,951
Saved. These ones fall away they don't endure

886
00:30:16,951 --> 00:30:19,835
to the end. In Matthew chapter 4 verse

887
00:30:19,835 --> 00:30:22,146
1. I'm sorry, first timothy chapter 4 verse

888
00:30:22,146 --> 00:30:22,305
1.

889
00:30:23,739 --> 00:30:25,571
The Apostle Paul says that the holy spirit

890
00:30:25,571 --> 00:30:26,549
speaks explicitly

891
00:30:27,259 --> 00:30:28,796
that the last times

892
00:30:30,131 --> 00:30:33,321
it's important. There'll be seduced spirits and doctrines

893
00:30:33,321 --> 00:30:36,432
of demons and some will fall away from

894
00:30:36,432 --> 00:30:36,910
the faith.

895
00:30:38,913 --> 00:30:40,581
It's important to see how serious this is.

896
00:30:41,376 --> 00:30:43,124
In fact, looks like at Romans chapter 11

897
00:30:43,124 --> 00:30:43,680
on our screen.

898
00:30:44,808 --> 00:30:46,399
Or on your phone. However you want to?

899
00:30:47,115 --> 00:30:48,148
Romans chapter 11.

900
00:30:49,978 --> 00:30:52,682
Paul says to the gentile believers not to

901
00:30:52,682 --> 00:30:55,243
be high minded and conceded that hey, you're

902
00:30:55,243 --> 00:30:57,631
saved and you're saved no matter what and

903
00:30:57,631 --> 00:30:59,064
the Jews were broken up. But look at

904
00:30:59,064 --> 00:31:01,769
me. He warns them. He says quite right.

905
00:31:02,008 --> 00:31:02,508
They

906
00:31:02,898 --> 00:31:04,803
we're broken off for their what.

907
00:31:05,993 --> 00:31:07,025
Believe. But you what.

908
00:31:08,216 --> 00:31:10,121
Stand by your faith. So how do the

909
00:31:10,121 --> 00:31:11,232
gentile believers stand?

910
00:31:12,443 --> 00:31:14,361
By their faith. Amen. Oh, by the way,

911
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,678
when you say someone standing by their faith,

912
00:31:17,078 --> 00:31:18,596
are you talking about lost people or say

913
00:31:18,596 --> 00:31:18,835
people?

914
00:31:19,888 --> 00:31:21,558
Say people. Do not believers or stand by

915
00:31:21,558 --> 00:31:23,865
their faith. No. This is not believers.

916
00:31:24,661 --> 00:31:26,092
You stand by your faith do not be

917
00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:26,252
wet.

918
00:31:27,144 --> 00:31:29,384
Conceded, but fear for if God did not

919
00:31:29,384 --> 00:31:30,424
spare the natural branches,

920
00:31:30,904 --> 00:31:32,105
he will not spare you either.

921
00:31:33,065 --> 00:31:35,952
Behold the kindness and severity of god. To

922
00:31:35,952 --> 00:31:37,937
those who fell to those who what?

923
00:31:38,811 --> 00:31:41,352
Fell? You can fall away, severity, but you,

924
00:31:41,828 --> 00:31:42,622
god's kindness.

925
00:31:43,671 --> 00:31:44,171
If

926
00:31:44,547 --> 00:31:47,731
you continue in its kindness, otherwise, you also

927
00:31:47,731 --> 00:31:48,391
will be

928
00:31:49,085 --> 00:31:50,757
cut off. Do you believe the bible?

929
00:31:52,046 --> 00:31:53,320
Yeah. I I believe what it's saying there,

930
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:54,834
but it doesn't fit with what I... My

931
00:31:54,834 --> 00:31:55,232
theology.

932
00:31:55,869 --> 00:31:58,577
I always say, when the bible theology change

933
00:31:58,577 --> 00:32:00,011
your theology, not the bible.

934
00:32:00,822 --> 00:32:00,981
Amen.

935
00:32:01,935 --> 00:32:03,684
But Bible I will very clearly teaches that

936
00:32:03,684 --> 00:32:05,750
were justified by grace through faith, but we

937
00:32:05,750 --> 00:32:07,102
must continue in the faith. Amen.

938
00:32:08,389 --> 00:32:09,744
It's my faith. It's not by works, So

939
00:32:09,744 --> 00:32:11,258
it's never by works, but you must continue

940
00:32:11,258 --> 00:32:11,975
to trust Jesus.

941
00:32:12,613 --> 00:32:14,207
Works and fruit are just evidence is that

942
00:32:14,207 --> 00:32:15,402
you're trusting Jesus as amen.

943
00:32:16,612 --> 00:32:17,966
Look at Galatians chapter 1.

944
00:32:18,841 --> 00:32:19,877
We'll have this up there on the screen

945
00:32:19,877 --> 00:32:21,788
as well. Paul writes to the church of.

946
00:32:22,424 --> 00:32:24,017
And it's important to understand the context here,

947
00:32:24,748 --> 00:32:26,496
This is the church where they were thriving.

948
00:32:26,734 --> 00:32:28,243
They began in the spirit. They were walking

949
00:32:28,243 --> 00:32:30,865
with God, but J came in and said,

950
00:32:30,944 --> 00:32:31,421
you know what?

951
00:32:32,215 --> 00:32:33,486
Jesus is not enough.

952
00:32:35,011 --> 00:32:36,601
You need to keep the law of Moses

953
00:32:36,601 --> 00:32:39,305
to be saved. You gotta be ci sized.

954
00:32:39,941 --> 00:32:41,691
You gotta keep the new moons and the

955
00:32:41,691 --> 00:32:43,201
feast days. You gotta do these sorts of

956
00:32:43,201 --> 00:32:43,361
things.

957
00:32:44,489 --> 00:32:46,398
And look what Paul says, he warns them

958
00:32:46,398 --> 00:32:47,614
if they go that route

959
00:32:48,546 --> 00:32:49,977
and turn away from being saved by Grace

960
00:32:49,977 --> 00:32:51,171
you faith back to the lot of Moses.

961
00:32:51,663 --> 00:32:54,150
Do right with God. There's severe consequences.

962
00:32:54,604 --> 00:32:56,989
In fact, they'd be under curse. Look at

963
00:32:56,989 --> 00:32:57,466
what he says.

964
00:32:58,261 --> 00:33:00,248
Paul writes, I'm amazed that you are so

965
00:33:00,248 --> 00:33:03,380
quickly desert diverting him, desert diverting him. It's

966
00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:05,140
not to falling away from profession of faith.

967
00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:07,400
It's a possessive a person that you're.

968
00:33:08,273 --> 00:33:08,512
K?

969
00:33:09,148 --> 00:33:11,058
I'm amazed that you are so quickly deserted

970
00:33:11,058 --> 00:33:13,048
him, who called you by the grace of

971
00:33:13,207 --> 00:33:14,878
Christ to a different gospel.

972
00:33:15,769 --> 00:33:18,250
You foolish galatians, who has be reached you?

973
00:33:18,410 --> 00:33:19,289
Who put a spell on you.

974
00:33:20,329 --> 00:33:21,289
Before your very eyes,

975
00:33:22,089 --> 00:33:24,170
Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

976
00:33:25,144 --> 00:33:27,465
Are you so foolish as she says, haven't

977
00:33:27,465 --> 00:33:29,065
begun by the spirit. They had a good

978
00:33:29,065 --> 00:33:29,225
start.

979
00:33:30,345 --> 00:33:31,545
Probably had a lot of joy in their

980
00:33:31,545 --> 00:33:32,984
salvation, Receive the word with joy.

981
00:33:33,798 --> 00:33:35,634
Have begun by the spirit, are you now

982
00:33:35,634 --> 00:33:37,071
being perfect by the flesh?

983
00:33:37,869 --> 00:33:39,864
Try to keep those 613 or so laws

984
00:33:39,864 --> 00:33:41,460
in the old testament. You're write with God?

985
00:33:42,275 --> 00:33:42,994
That's foolish ness.

986
00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:45,954
Paul goes on to say, all who rely

987
00:33:45,954 --> 00:33:47,875
on observing the law are under a wet.

988
00:33:48,994 --> 00:33:49,315
Curse.

989
00:33:50,048 --> 00:33:52,041
For his written, cursed it is everyone who

990
00:33:52,041 --> 00:33:54,113
does not continue to do everything written in

991
00:33:54,113 --> 00:33:54,830
the book of the law.

992
00:33:55,946 --> 00:33:57,381
It is for Freedom. This is chapter 5

993
00:33:57,381 --> 00:33:59,870
verse 1, is for freedom that Christ has

994
00:33:59,870 --> 00:34:01,147
set us free. Therefore,

995
00:34:01,626 --> 00:34:02,823
keep standing firm.

996
00:34:03,462 --> 00:34:06,255
Keep standing firm. It's a command. It's imperative.

997
00:34:06,828 --> 00:34:09,528
Keep its continuous tense. It's a present tense

998
00:34:09,528 --> 00:34:11,991
imperative. That words you're free in Christ, keep

999
00:34:11,991 --> 00:34:12,889
standing firm

1000
00:34:13,421 --> 00:34:15,423
and do not be subject again, to a

1001
00:34:15,423 --> 00:34:17,496
yoke of slavery. You can't go back to

1002
00:34:17,496 --> 00:34:18,294
the lobby cursed.

1003
00:34:19,251 --> 00:34:20,048
You have been what?

1004
00:34:21,483 --> 00:34:23,476
Severed from Christ. Cut off from Jesus.

1005
00:34:24,289 --> 00:34:26,278
You are seeking to be justified by the

1006
00:34:26,278 --> 00:34:27,233
law. You have what.

1007
00:34:28,427 --> 00:34:30,257
There it is, fallen from grace. In fact,

1008
00:34:30,337 --> 00:34:32,340
the bible doesn't it just warn that you

1009
00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:34,167
can fall away. It speaks of people here

1010
00:34:34,167 --> 00:34:36,152
who did fall away because they're trying to

1011
00:34:36,152 --> 00:34:37,184
be justified by the law.

1012
00:34:38,217 --> 00:34:39,431
They're trying to be justified

1013
00:34:40,059 --> 00:34:42,296
by keeping the law Moses. He's clearly says

1014
00:34:42,296 --> 00:34:43,654
to them here. You have a severed from

1015
00:34:43,814 --> 00:34:45,492
Christ. And you went to work attached to

1016
00:34:45,572 --> 00:34:45,811
Christ.

1017
00:34:47,344 --> 00:34:49,098
You are seeking. That's who he's talking to.

1018
00:34:49,258 --> 00:34:50,614
Those who are seeking to be justified by

1019
00:34:50,614 --> 00:34:50,932
a law.

1020
00:34:52,368 --> 00:34:53,564
You have fallen from grace.

1021
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,036
Very, very serious.

1022
00:34:56,849 --> 00:34:57,804
You can fall away.

1023
00:34:58,681 --> 00:34:59,955
Don't let any... The devil would like you

1024
00:34:59,955 --> 00:35:01,070
to think that you can't all the away.

1025
00:35:01,787 --> 00:35:02,924
That's why Paul warns

1026
00:35:03,619 --> 00:35:06,580
in chapter 10 verse 12 of first corinthians,

1027
00:35:06,898 --> 00:35:08,489
let him fix he stands take heed.

1028
00:35:09,364 --> 00:35:09,921
Less see what.

1029
00:35:10,637 --> 00:35:12,228
Less he fall. Serious stuff.

1030
00:35:13,118 --> 00:35:14,889
In Matthew 13 21

1031
00:35:16,216 --> 00:35:18,225
of this second heart, the

1032
00:35:18,758 --> 00:35:19,655
shallow heart

1033
00:35:20,442 --> 00:35:23,228
says, Jesus said when tribulation or persecution arises

1034
00:35:23,228 --> 00:35:23,864
because of the word,

1035
00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:26,650
they immediately immediately, he falls away.

1036
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:28,980
So

1037
00:35:30,166 --> 00:35:31,994
We wanna minister to those who have hard

1038
00:35:31,994 --> 00:35:33,823
hearts. Amen. So we wanna use the word

1039
00:35:33,823 --> 00:35:35,413
of God that pierce their hearts. Amen. We

1040
00:35:35,413 --> 00:35:36,765
wanna pray to them. We wanna show love

1041
00:35:36,765 --> 00:35:38,276
of God. The kind of god leads treat

1042
00:35:38,276 --> 00:35:41,158
repentance, amen. Pray for them, love them. We're

1043
00:35:41,158 --> 00:35:43,071
at a mission Amen. You're only here for

1044
00:35:43,071 --> 00:35:45,143
a short time. Their lords only left us

1045
00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:46,419
here for a couple reasons, and 1 of

1046
00:35:46,419 --> 00:35:48,108
those reasons we're still here is to win

1047
00:35:48,108 --> 00:35:49,785
the lost to Christ. Day amen. Amen.

1048
00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,378
Another reason is so we'd become more like

1049
00:35:53,457 --> 00:35:55,852
Christ. Stay amen. Amen And how does God

1050
00:35:55,852 --> 00:35:56,731
make us more like Jesus?

1051
00:35:57,465 --> 00:35:57,965
Through

1052
00:35:58,664 --> 00:35:59,485
trials and

1053
00:36:00,184 --> 00:36:00,344
tribulation.

1054
00:36:01,224 --> 00:36:02,744
In in various ways, but that's that's... That's

1055
00:36:02,744 --> 00:36:04,905
1 reason. So listen, when you're dealing with

1056
00:36:04,905 --> 00:36:06,835
someone with the shallow heart, The roots don't

1057
00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:09,300
go very deep. They're not very strong in

1058
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,505
the Lord. There's a huge concern that when

1059
00:36:12,561 --> 00:36:12,959
temptation comes.

1060
00:36:13,675 --> 00:36:15,679
When trials. And tribulation come.

1061
00:36:17,110 --> 00:36:18,781
That tree goes down easy because its roots

1062
00:36:18,781 --> 00:36:19,815
aren't very deep. You understand.

1063
00:36:21,963 --> 00:36:22,679
Very, very important.

1064
00:36:23,648 --> 00:36:24,998
So what do we do with believers like

1065
00:36:24,998 --> 00:36:26,348
that that we're concerned about? And that's a

1066
00:36:26,348 --> 00:36:29,128
lot of new believers. There's people that walk

1067
00:36:29,128 --> 00:36:30,796
in, they go... They hear the gospel. They

1068
00:36:30,796 --> 00:36:31,534
get excited

1069
00:36:31,924 --> 00:36:34,960
praise Lord. I love Jesus. He very emotional

1070
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,958
experience tears are streaming. He died for me.

1071
00:36:37,117 --> 00:36:39,287
I love him, and they're all excited. But

1072
00:36:39,287 --> 00:36:41,114
they don't continue to grow, if the rooster

1073
00:36:41,114 --> 00:36:41,749
get really deep,

1074
00:36:42,543 --> 00:36:43,416
then they fall away.

1075
00:36:44,449 --> 00:36:45,719
K? They are poc,

1076
00:36:47,466 --> 00:36:48,204
what those

1077
00:36:48,752 --> 00:36:49,627
Anybody eat z?

1078
00:36:51,614 --> 00:36:53,682
Come on the candy z. Anybody remembers z.

1079
00:36:54,318 --> 00:36:57,419
Am I the only 1 that remembers ZZ0TS,

1080
00:36:58,550 --> 00:36:58,869
Bla.

1081
00:36:59,829 --> 00:37:01,510
Okay. You're the only other brother... Now, and

1082
00:37:01,510 --> 00:37:03,190
there's another admission. It come out and they

1083
00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:05,930
came in like watermelon and cherry apple and

1084
00:37:05,989 --> 00:37:07,999
all these different flavors. But it fizz in

1085
00:37:07,999 --> 00:37:08,397
your mouth,

1086
00:37:09,271 --> 00:37:11,179
and they're kind sour. I'm not a sour

1087
00:37:11,179 --> 00:37:12,530
candy guy, but I had a few of

1088
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:14,597
those. Or they're like, you know,

1089
00:37:15,649 --> 00:37:16,687
pop rock Christians.

1090
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And may remember pop rocks?

1091
00:37:19,723 --> 00:37:20,223
Raise.

1092
00:37:20,841 --> 00:37:21,001
Okay.

1093
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:23,655
So I guess, from the z, many of

1094
00:37:23,655 --> 00:37:24,775
you weren't alive, just a few of us

1095
00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:26,614
in the 18 hundreds. Okay? Or whatever that

1096
00:37:26,614 --> 00:37:28,215
is. I don't know. I thought there'd be

1097
00:37:28,215 --> 00:37:29,894
more of, so I switched to Pop rocks.

1098
00:37:30,309 --> 00:37:32,057
Okay. Every. How many you remember pop rocks?

1099
00:37:33,010 --> 00:37:34,440
You stick those in your mouth? What happens?

1100
00:37:35,235 --> 00:37:37,619
They fizz, there's all this excitement then they

1101
00:37:37,619 --> 00:37:37,777
disappear.

1102
00:37:39,144 --> 00:37:40,822
There's a lot of pop rock Christians.

1103
00:37:41,381 --> 00:37:43,379
They get all excited. They fizz. It's like,

1104
00:37:43,619 --> 00:37:45,776
wow. Excited and then they fall away.

1105
00:37:46,908 --> 00:37:48,281
So we need to prepare them

1106
00:37:48,733 --> 00:37:51,432
to live for Jesus. We need prepare them

1107
00:37:51,432 --> 00:37:53,734
to understand that there's storms coming.

1108
00:37:55,020 --> 00:37:56,293
And they don't have to follow away.

1109
00:37:57,088 --> 00:37:59,315
Fact, that's a ministry that the Apostle Paul

1110
00:37:59,315 --> 00:38:00,827
and Silas did throughout the churches the book

1111
00:38:00,827 --> 00:38:01,065
of acts.

1112
00:38:01,876 --> 00:38:05,061
I quote 11, chapter 13, chapter 14 of

1113
00:38:05,061 --> 00:38:06,652
acts, and I'm just gonna quote 1 to

1114
00:38:06,652 --> 00:38:08,165
show you what they did and how they

1115
00:38:08,165 --> 00:38:10,972
strengthen the disciples. They strengthen them, so their

1116
00:38:10,972 --> 00:38:13,529
roots would grow stronger and deeper. Listen to

1117
00:38:13,529 --> 00:38:15,207
what says in acts 14 22.

1118
00:38:16,166 --> 00:38:18,414
It says a that they were quote strengthening

1119
00:38:18,414 --> 00:38:20,400
the souls of the disciples, how.

1120
00:38:21,670 --> 00:38:24,235
Ex them to continue in the faith

1121
00:38:24,767 --> 00:38:27,014
and saying we must through many tribulation

1122
00:38:27,563 --> 00:38:28,680
enter the kingdom of god.

1123
00:38:29,717 --> 00:38:30,855
Amen? Amen

1124
00:38:31,551 --> 00:38:33,226
So that's what... And if some of you,

1125
00:38:33,306 --> 00:38:34,821
like, man, I listen to joe, but he

1126
00:38:34,821 --> 00:38:36,496
talks a lot about how we gotta continue

1127
00:38:36,496 --> 00:38:36,895
in the faith.

1128
00:38:37,706 --> 00:38:38,820
Are you read the parable sword with me?

1129
00:38:39,377 --> 00:38:41,047
That's what Jesus was all about. Over and

1130
00:38:41,047 --> 00:38:42,320
over and over again Jesus talked about that.

1131
00:38:42,638 --> 00:38:44,125
And he also talks about, hey, we could

1132
00:38:44,324 --> 00:38:46,005
if we're live and the the time comes

1133
00:38:46,005 --> 00:38:47,605
that, we'll go through the tribulation. The church

1134
00:38:47,605 --> 00:38:48,804
can be rapture first us. Yes.

1135
00:38:49,925 --> 00:38:51,445
By the way, the apostle Paul was doing...

1136
00:38:51,684 --> 00:38:52,885
There's 2 things mentioned on the list.

1137
00:38:53,619 --> 00:38:54,255
That he emphasized.

1138
00:38:55,608 --> 00:38:57,063
You have to continue in the faith

1139
00:38:57,439 --> 00:38:59,269
and through many tribulation we will enter the

1140
00:38:59,349 --> 00:39:01,155
Kingdom of God. And he was even talking

1141
00:39:01,514 --> 00:39:03,986
specifically necessarily about the great tribulation which didn't

1142
00:39:03,986 --> 00:39:04,704
happen in their lifetime.

1143
00:39:05,741 --> 00:39:08,054
All believers will face tribulation. We need to

1144
00:39:08,054 --> 00:39:09,729
let people know that the bible says you

1145
00:39:09,729 --> 00:39:11,577
need to let Christians know they're new. Who

1146
00:39:11,577 --> 00:39:13,088
aren't very strong, who's who are new and

1147
00:39:13,088 --> 00:39:14,917
their roots aren't very deep that the bible

1148
00:39:14,917 --> 00:39:17,461
says timothy 3, the last days know this

1149
00:39:17,461 --> 00:39:19,132
last day's perilous times will come.

1150
00:39:19,784 --> 00:39:22,021
Men we levels of self, cove bolster, problem

1151
00:39:22,021 --> 00:39:23,619
less fevers, This will be that parents un

1152
00:39:23,619 --> 00:39:26,496
unthinkable un without natural effects, truth, false skews

1153
00:39:26,496 --> 00:39:28,590
and inconvenient fierce Despise of those that are

1154
00:39:28,590 --> 00:39:31,550
good, traders, he, high minded, levers of pleasure

1155
00:39:31,550 --> 00:39:33,389
where lovers of God. Having inform god has

1156
00:39:33,389 --> 00:39:34,349
been denying in the power of thereof rev.

1157
00:39:35,004 --> 00:39:36,442
Always learning, but never able to come in

1158
00:39:36,442 --> 00:39:37,961
all truth. You know what when he goes

1159
00:39:37,961 --> 00:39:38,840
on the say verse 12,

1160
00:39:40,757 --> 00:39:42,675
all those who live Godly and christ jesus

1161
00:39:42,675 --> 00:39:43,075
as well,

1162
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:44,466
suffer

1163
00:39:45,794 --> 00:39:46,032
persecution.

1164
00:39:46,827 --> 00:39:48,257
If you are living in godly life in

1165
00:39:48,337 --> 00:39:51,014
Christ Jesus, you will suffer you'll suffer

1166
00:39:51,932 --> 00:39:52,092
persecution.

1167
00:39:52,809 --> 00:39:54,724
And verse 13 says an evil man wax

1168
00:39:54,724 --> 00:39:56,341
worse and worse being

1169
00:39:57,198 --> 00:39:58,235
deceiving and being deceived.

1170
00:39:58,968 --> 00:40:00,643
So because we live in a world that's

1171
00:40:00,643 --> 00:40:02,637
wicked that's fallen and people are dead in

1172
00:40:02,637 --> 00:40:04,711
their sins, we have all these millions of

1173
00:40:04,711 --> 00:40:07,103
fish going downstream as we go upstream. And

1174
00:40:07,103 --> 00:40:08,140
they hate us of many of them.

1175
00:40:09,512 --> 00:40:10,869
And I'm telling you right now, man, if

1176
00:40:10,869 --> 00:40:12,784
we're not warning people about the coming tribulation

1177
00:40:12,784 --> 00:40:13,024
period,

1178
00:40:14,141 --> 00:40:15,200
I don't believe we're

1179
00:40:15,657 --> 00:40:17,902
discharging our orders properly, because Jesus weren't as

1180
00:40:17,902 --> 00:40:20,601
possible about that. The apostles, John said at

1181
00:40:20,601 --> 00:40:22,507
first john you've heard that anti antichrist is

1182
00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:22,825
coming.

1183
00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:25,366
Yes, even now many are in the world.

1184
00:40:26,414 --> 00:40:28,485
Paul said don't be deceived that day when

1185
00:40:28,565 --> 00:40:30,397
Christ comes gathers together, won't take place until

1186
00:40:30,397 --> 00:40:33,504
the following when, Antichrist comes first. Jesus said,

1187
00:40:33,743 --> 00:40:35,416
to his apostles, that leaders the early church,

1188
00:40:35,749 --> 00:40:38,061
when you see the abomination of destination, senate

1189
00:40:38,061 --> 00:40:41,250
in the holy place. Flee. Amen. Book revelations,

1190
00:40:41,410 --> 00:40:43,403
John the apostle written into the churches about

1191
00:40:43,403 --> 00:40:45,013
the coming out of grace. Yet the church

1192
00:40:45,013 --> 00:40:46,608
is being told today. Don't worry.

1193
00:40:47,245 --> 00:40:49,398
We're not gonna go through it. We're gonna

1194
00:40:49,398 --> 00:40:50,138
be rapture

1195
00:40:50,515 --> 00:40:52,827
before that 7 year trial. When be caught

1196
00:40:52,827 --> 00:40:53,226
up to heaven.

1197
00:40:53,879 --> 00:40:55,950
And we're gonna have a big old party

1198
00:40:55,950 --> 00:40:57,543
in heaven for 7 years while our brothers

1199
00:40:57,543 --> 00:40:58,818
and sister being slot on Earth.

1200
00:40:59,694 --> 00:40:59,933
Right?

1201
00:41:01,855 --> 00:41:03,441
Wow. That does sound like a good party.

1202
00:41:04,551 --> 00:41:05,582
Could you have a good time at a

1203
00:41:05,582 --> 00:41:07,089
party when you know all the people that

1204
00:41:07,089 --> 00:41:08,278
you love that we're being slaughtered?

1205
00:41:09,486 --> 00:41:11,477
No. That's why that part doesn't happen until

1206
00:41:11,477 --> 00:41:12,193
christ's second coming.

1207
00:41:12,831 --> 00:41:14,264
If you the enema matthew of 24 in

1208
00:41:14,264 --> 00:41:16,175
chapter 25, then you see the bride room

1209
00:41:16,175 --> 00:41:17,862
comes at the end of the tribulation. We

1210
00:41:17,862 --> 00:41:20,328
laughed tribulation. And he comes in the Bride

1211
00:41:20,328 --> 00:41:20,567
space,

1212
00:41:21,282 --> 00:41:22,873
He'd to be ready Amen at the end

1213
00:41:22,873 --> 00:41:23,510
of the tribulation.

1214
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,155
But I'm telling you right now, guys, it's

1215
00:41:26,155 --> 00:41:28,252
vital, it's imperative that we

1216
00:41:28,869 --> 00:41:31,344
already and that when we disciple people, we

1217
00:41:31,344 --> 00:41:32,301
prepare them for these things.

1218
00:41:33,830 --> 00:41:34,944
I've been told over and over again by

1219
00:41:34,944 --> 00:41:36,773
the Grace of god. It's nothing about my

1220
00:41:36,773 --> 00:41:38,546
doing, by arguing doing. It's by the words

1221
00:41:38,682 --> 00:41:40,831
or doing that Blessed produces a lot of

1222
00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:41,467
strong disciples.

1223
00:41:43,235 --> 00:41:44,831
When I fellowship just started, there's guy named

1224
00:41:44,911 --> 00:41:46,346
Scott Pruitt. He said, Joe, there's...

1225
00:41:47,223 --> 00:41:49,058
He got to know the different believers. Mike

1226
00:41:49,058 --> 00:41:50,813
and Least, you remember Scott, you know, I

1227
00:41:50,813 --> 00:41:53,385
was way long ago. And, you guys probably

1228
00:41:53,385 --> 00:41:55,304
had thoughts to just in a minute. Okay?

1229
00:41:55,864 --> 00:41:57,224
But no. I'm just kidding.

1230
00:41:58,985 --> 00:42:00,585
But they were there with us when the

1231
00:42:00,585 --> 00:42:02,275
church was just wasn't in a church, yet.

1232
00:42:02,672 --> 00:42:04,743
We're sitting there at Scott's like the visiting

1233
00:42:04,743 --> 00:42:06,416
from Calvary Chapel. And he's like, and he

1234
00:42:06,416 --> 00:42:08,167
became part of church he goes, it's amazing

1235
00:42:08,167 --> 00:42:09,442
how strong the conference converts here.

1236
00:42:10,173 --> 00:42:10,333
Well,

1237
00:42:11,289 --> 00:42:12,884
I just don't reinvent the wheel. I preach

1238
00:42:12,884 --> 00:42:13,522
it off the page,

1239
00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:17,030
strengthen disciples. Right? To continue the faith, warn

1240
00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:17,827
them to continue in the faith.

1241
00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:20,316
1 not that through many tribulation. You must

1242
00:42:20,316 --> 00:42:23,190
end give God. So our deeper, so he

1243
00:42:23,190 --> 00:42:25,585
won't fall away. So they're not surprised. They

1244
00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:28,161
know they're gonna suffer persecution. So freak out

1245
00:42:29,193 --> 00:42:30,791
That's why Peter says in first Peter 04:12,

1246
00:42:31,190 --> 00:42:33,448
beloved do not be surprised at the fiery

1247
00:42:33,507 --> 00:42:34,226
ordeal among you.

1248
00:42:35,918 --> 00:42:38,092
Which comes upon you for the testing

1249
00:42:38,949 --> 00:42:41,341
as though some strange thing we're happening to

1250
00:42:41,341 --> 00:42:41,501
you.

1251
00:42:42,298 --> 00:42:44,053
But to the degree that you share in

1252
00:42:44,053 --> 00:42:46,543
the suffers of christ, keep on re so

1253
00:42:46,543 --> 00:42:49,099
that also at the revelation of his glory,

1254
00:42:49,339 --> 00:42:51,358
you may rejoice with ex.

1255
00:42:52,216 --> 00:42:52,855
That's beautiful.

1256
00:42:53,828 --> 00:42:54,464
That's beautiful.

1257
00:42:56,691 --> 00:42:58,202
But then you have books today where people

1258
00:42:58,202 --> 00:43:00,509
aren't being prepared. They'll never be told about

1259
00:43:00,509 --> 00:43:01,543
the coming period.

1260
00:43:02,994 --> 00:43:04,112
Many of them will never be told about

1261
00:43:04,112 --> 00:43:05,311
the wrath of god if they turn away

1262
00:43:05,311 --> 00:43:05,711
from Christ.

1263
00:43:06,510 --> 00:43:07,629
In Joel Os book,

1264
00:43:08,428 --> 00:43:09,707
live your best life now Is that what

1265
00:43:09,707 --> 00:43:11,385
we're supposed to do? Live our best life

1266
00:43:11,385 --> 00:43:13,395
now? Is that our best life? It's a

1267
00:43:13,395 --> 00:43:14,352
bummer of this our best life.

1268
00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:15,309
Okay?

1269
00:43:16,665 --> 00:43:17,861
Can you have to give you that book

1270
00:43:17,861 --> 00:43:18,978
in the book in that book of Hebrews

1271
00:43:18,978 --> 00:43:21,152
it talks about all these a friction and

1272
00:43:21,211 --> 00:43:22,740
tribulation It's a hall of faith chapter in

1273
00:43:22,820 --> 00:43:25,072
Mo hebrews. All these things that the believers

1274
00:43:25,369 --> 00:43:26,108
dealt with

1275
00:43:26,485 --> 00:43:27,919
being uproot being so,

1276
00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:30,969
and it talks about how

1277
00:43:34,621 --> 00:43:35,814
Some of these believers at the end of

1278
00:43:35,814 --> 00:43:36,689
hebrews chapter 11,

1279
00:43:37,564 --> 00:43:40,602
it says that they did not accept their

1280
00:43:40,602 --> 00:43:42,036
release from torture.

1281
00:43:43,471 --> 00:43:45,940
They could've have been just said, hey. It

1282
00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:48,171
says, and therefore, it says, they they were

1283
00:43:48,171 --> 00:43:50,814
they refused to accept release from the torment

1284
00:43:50,814 --> 00:43:51,530
that they went through.

1285
00:43:52,246 --> 00:43:53,917
So if they would have a better resurrection.

1286
00:43:55,827 --> 00:43:57,202
They wanted the resurrection

1287
00:43:57,514 --> 00:43:58,151
from the dead,

1288
00:43:58,867 --> 00:43:59,823
eternal life. Amen.

1289
00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:03,010
Can imagine them being going through suffering like,

1290
00:44:03,169 --> 00:44:04,284
I gotta do this. God says he won't

1291
00:44:04,284 --> 00:44:05,797
keep me more than handle. And then you

1292
00:44:05,797 --> 00:44:07,328
say, hey. I can help you get through

1293
00:44:07,328 --> 00:44:09,485
this. Here's this book, new book by Joel.

1294
00:44:10,124 --> 00:44:11,083
Live your best life now?

1295
00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:12,681
How is that gonna fly?

1296
00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:15,400
How is that gonna go? Come on. Let's

1297
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:15,797
be honest.

1298
00:44:16,828 --> 00:44:18,494
But if you show them promises from the

1299
00:44:18,494 --> 00:44:19,921
word of God that'll get you through your

1300
00:44:19,921 --> 00:44:21,880
trials. And that God said these trials are

1301
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:23,757
come. Right? And then you say there's a

1302
00:44:23,757 --> 00:44:25,436
better life. You... In fact, why does I

1303
00:44:25,436 --> 00:44:26,794
say Romans was chapter to 8 verse 18.

1304
00:44:28,872 --> 00:44:31,030
I love it. Romans 8 verse 18. It's

1305
00:44:31,030 --> 00:44:33,426
a great verse, but it says, it says

1306
00:44:33,426 --> 00:44:36,122
the suffering that we go through now, not

1307
00:44:36,122 --> 00:44:38,184
our best life now. The suffering that we

1308
00:44:38,184 --> 00:44:40,578
go through now are not worthy of being

1309
00:44:40,578 --> 00:44:43,139
compared to the glory that we revealed later

1310
00:44:43,749 --> 00:44:45,651
speaking of in his kingdom me amen. That's

1311
00:44:45,651 --> 00:44:46,603
a biblical perspective.

1312
00:44:47,414 --> 00:44:48,454
That helps you persevere.

1313
00:44:49,015 --> 00:44:50,375
That helps your wrote roots go deeper.

1314
00:44:51,255 --> 00:44:52,775
It's all very, very important, guys.

1315
00:44:57,746 --> 00:44:58,145
You know,

1316
00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:01,735
it's kind of interesting. I was reading something

1317
00:45:01,735 --> 00:45:02,235
recently

1318
00:45:03,011 --> 00:45:05,483
about experiment. I'm anybody here heard of the

1319
00:45:05,483 --> 00:45:06,735
bio dome experiment

1320
00:45:07,411 --> 00:45:09,164
It's a great experience it put out by

1321
00:45:09,164 --> 00:45:11,576
scientists where they got went the deserts and

1322
00:45:11,872 --> 00:45:14,341
big desert, and they created this big glass

1323
00:45:14,341 --> 00:45:15,058
bubble, you know?

1324
00:45:16,429 --> 00:45:17,549
And it was a bio,

1325
00:45:18,109 --> 00:45:19,889
so they try to create their perfect

1326
00:45:20,510 --> 00:45:21,010
environment

1327
00:45:21,789 --> 00:45:23,489
for animals and

1328
00:45:23,869 --> 00:45:24,690
people holding

1329
00:45:25,561 --> 00:45:26,513
plants and trees,

1330
00:45:27,781 --> 00:45:29,763
and they created a perfect environment, just the

1331
00:45:29,763 --> 00:45:32,062
right amount of sunlight, everything, so it would

1332
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:32,380
thrive.

1333
00:45:33,347 --> 00:45:35,096
And people go and live in this bow

1334
00:45:35,096 --> 00:45:36,050
for a few months at a time.

1335
00:45:36,686 --> 00:45:38,275
Say, wow. It's like, perfect in there. The

1336
00:45:38,275 --> 00:45:40,501
weather is just wow. It's just beautiful.

1337
00:45:40,914 --> 00:45:41,712
Well guess what happened.

1338
00:45:42,909 --> 00:45:43,467
True story.

1339
00:45:44,505 --> 00:45:45,483
When the trees

1340
00:45:45,861 --> 00:45:46,659
got kinda high.

1341
00:45:48,590 --> 00:45:49,489
They would just

1342
00:45:50,190 --> 00:45:50,670
topple over,

1343
00:45:51,630 --> 00:45:53,710
fall right over. I like, there's no winning

1344
00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:54,109
in here.

1345
00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:56,269
How come these trees are falling over?

1346
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,547
Because there's no wind in there. That's the

1347
00:45:59,547 --> 00:46:02,650
answer. Then they realized that wind is an

1348
00:46:02,650 --> 00:46:03,579
important component

1349
00:46:03,937 --> 00:46:05,369
for many trees for them to grow.

1350
00:46:06,084 --> 00:46:07,913
Because what happens when the the... Now the

1351
00:46:07,913 --> 00:46:09,503
when the when the wind is blowing against

1352
00:46:09,503 --> 00:46:12,286
these trees, this is true of Redwood, California

1353
00:46:12,286 --> 00:46:12,763
bay trees.

1354
00:46:13,494 --> 00:46:15,809
Some of the California oaks. Yep. Their roots

1355
00:46:15,809 --> 00:46:17,725
get deeper or stronger or in a case

1356
00:46:17,725 --> 00:46:19,322
of the red would even wider and inner

1357
00:46:19,322 --> 00:46:21,158
inter tang with the other roots from the

1358
00:46:21,158 --> 00:46:21,477
redwood.

1359
00:46:23,010 --> 00:46:24,789
So guess what they realized the scientists

1360
00:46:25,089 --> 00:46:26,609
were baffled at first. Why are these trees

1361
00:46:26,609 --> 00:46:28,449
happening over and then they realized, we forgot

1362
00:46:28,449 --> 00:46:29,969
the God given they didn't say God, given

1363
00:46:29,969 --> 00:46:31,737
what I'm saying that. We forgot the God

1364
00:46:31,737 --> 00:46:32,848
given element of wind.

1365
00:46:34,990 --> 00:46:36,181
Don't mess with what God's doing.

1366
00:46:37,213 --> 00:46:38,800
And by the way, whenever they create something

1367
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,762
like that, They're basically copying God. Amen. If

1368
00:46:41,762 --> 00:46:43,118
they have any success, they're gonna have to

1369
00:46:43,118 --> 00:46:45,431
copy the Lord. But guess what? The same

1370
00:46:45,431 --> 00:46:45,931
metaphor

1371
00:46:46,389 --> 00:46:48,382
of these roots is so true in our

1372
00:46:48,382 --> 00:46:48,621
lives.

1373
00:46:49,593 --> 00:46:50,943
Like, well, why does the Lord allow us

1374
00:46:50,943 --> 00:46:52,452
to be persecuted? Why is he allow us

1375
00:46:52,452 --> 00:46:54,516
to go through tribulation? Well, he's first... He's

1376
00:46:54,516 --> 00:46:55,334
testing us

1377
00:46:55,866 --> 00:46:57,454
to see if we're gonna remain true to

1378
00:46:57,534 --> 00:46:57,772
Jesus?

1379
00:46:59,460 --> 00:47:00,900
To see if we're gonna be loyal in

1380
00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:02,500
the end. Because when he comes back, he

1381
00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:03,539
said to catches us up, we're gonna meet

1382
00:47:03,539 --> 00:47:05,219
him in the air, it says with him

1383
00:47:05,219 --> 00:47:06,340
are the chosen.

1384
00:47:06,754 --> 00:47:07,548
Says are the called,

1385
00:47:08,263 --> 00:47:09,637
the chosen and the

1386
00:47:10,249 --> 00:47:13,029
faithful. Amen. Amen Mark, are the called?

1387
00:47:13,665 --> 00:47:14,539
Praise guy we be called.

1388
00:47:15,509 --> 00:47:18,065
The see went out to us chosen, those

1389
00:47:18,065 --> 00:47:18,725
respond to

1390
00:47:19,344 --> 00:47:20,563
are those that get in

1391
00:47:21,021 --> 00:47:23,515
and the faith they're faithful. They made faithful

1392
00:47:23,515 --> 00:47:25,914
to his word. So we need to keep

1393
00:47:25,914 --> 00:47:27,594
in mind. Sometimes you wanna... Oh, I just

1394
00:47:27,594 --> 00:47:28,795
wish I didn't have to go through trials,

1395
00:47:29,195 --> 00:47:31,048
which I have to go through tribulation. Man,

1396
00:47:31,288 --> 00:47:33,360
your roots would be so shallow that when

1397
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,990
something does go down down the line. You'll

1398
00:47:35,990 --> 00:47:36,708
topple right over,

1399
00:47:37,584 --> 00:47:38,541
because you won't be strong.

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00:47:39,114 --> 00:47:40,708
That's why James says in chapter 1 verse

1401
00:47:40,708 --> 00:47:42,541
2. Consider it all joy.

1402
00:47:44,056 --> 00:47:45,172
Why does he take this at all Joy?

1403
00:47:45,411 --> 00:47:47,266
When you encounter various trials

1404
00:47:48,373 --> 00:47:49,884
because he says it's something you need to

1405
00:47:49,884 --> 00:47:51,021
know, knowing

1406
00:47:51,554 --> 00:47:54,281
that the testing of your faith produces endurance

1407
00:47:54,894 --> 00:47:56,802
and let endurance have its perfect result.

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00:47:57,694 --> 00:47:59,611
Perfect result that you made perfect. Make that

1409
00:47:59,611 --> 00:48:00,250
you may be perfect.

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00:48:00,889 --> 00:48:01,768
K? Complete,

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00:48:02,647 --> 00:48:03,446
lacking in nothing.

1412
00:48:04,498 --> 00:48:06,884
So God allows trials in our lives, so

1413
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:08,632
our roots will go deeper into energies as

1414
00:48:08,632 --> 00:48:10,779
amen. So be stronger. And the cool thing

1415
00:48:10,779 --> 00:48:12,781
is the longer you're of believer. And you

1416
00:48:12,781 --> 00:48:14,451
respond to your trials by seeking the lord,

1417
00:48:14,690 --> 00:48:15,564
the stronger you get.

1418
00:48:17,869 --> 00:48:19,801
And you're far more likely to endure greater

1419
00:48:19,858 --> 00:48:22,337
persecution and trials and temptation later. Amen, because

1420
00:48:22,337 --> 00:48:24,243
your roots are deep in Jesus. Let your

1421
00:48:24,243 --> 00:48:25,434
roots go deep in Jesus.

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00:48:26,148 --> 00:48:26,307
Amen?

1423
00:48:27,419 --> 00:48:29,642
Does anybody besides me benefiting from this message.

1424
00:48:30,675 --> 00:48:30,833
Okay.

1425
00:48:31,563 --> 00:48:32,278
I'm getting a lot of out of it

1426
00:48:32,278 --> 00:48:34,581
personally just preaching it. There's so much here

1427
00:48:34,661 --> 00:48:36,352
I believe that that

1428
00:48:36,725 --> 00:48:37,520
is imp

1429
00:48:37,917 --> 00:48:40,402
imp imp by this parable

1430
00:48:41,348 --> 00:48:41,507
Now,

1431
00:48:43,499 --> 00:48:45,730
we have tendency also to, you know, put

1432
00:48:45,730 --> 00:48:46,845
bubble wrap around our children.

1433
00:48:47,562 --> 00:48:49,554
I'm not saying just push your kid off

1434
00:48:49,554 --> 00:48:51,798
a cliff so grow. That kill him. Okay.

1435
00:48:52,116 --> 00:48:53,548
Be wise with your children amen.

1436
00:48:54,344 --> 00:48:56,492
And don't subject them to too much temptation

1437
00:48:56,492 --> 00:48:58,083
and stuff like that Gotta be careful guard

1438
00:48:58,083 --> 00:48:58,798
their hearts. Say amen.

1439
00:48:59,927 --> 00:49:00,427
But

1440
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,390
from a young age, I took my children

1441
00:49:02,390 --> 00:49:03,844
out witnessing and sharing the gospel

1442
00:49:04,297 --> 00:49:07,893
on, you know, Highland and sunset right in

1443
00:49:07,973 --> 00:49:10,290
Hollywood till 1 2 in the morning. I

1444
00:49:10,290 --> 00:49:11,649
think we went there, like, 2 years almost

1445
00:49:11,649 --> 00:49:14,046
every Saturday night. Share in the gospel. People

1446
00:49:14,046 --> 00:49:14,845
probably thought I was nuts.

1447
00:49:15,496 --> 00:49:17,661
But made my children more resilient and Jesus

1448
00:49:18,112 --> 00:49:19,302
gave them a hunger and a thirst to

1449
00:49:19,302 --> 00:49:21,284
share the gospel with other people, get your

1450
00:49:21,284 --> 00:49:22,735
children involved their ministry

1451
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,338
stretch their

1452
00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:24,950
roots.

1453
00:49:25,824 --> 00:49:29,082
Amen, guard and protect them, but also realize

1454
00:49:29,082 --> 00:49:29,741
that hardship

1455
00:49:30,686 --> 00:49:32,670
helps us grow if we make the right

1456
00:49:32,670 --> 00:49:33,170
choices

1457
00:49:33,543 --> 00:49:35,289
while we're experiencing hardship Amen.

1458
00:49:37,035 --> 00:49:38,304
Look at Hebrews chapter 3.

1459
00:49:39,354 --> 00:49:41,293
Because there's some things we need to do

1460
00:49:41,752 --> 00:49:43,850
when we're administering the people with shallow hearts

1461
00:49:45,108 --> 00:49:47,905
with the hard rocky soil, this this soil

1462
00:49:47,905 --> 00:49:48,465
that's rocky.

1463
00:49:49,438 --> 00:49:51,910
3 times in hebrews chapter 3 and 4.

1464
00:49:52,309 --> 00:49:55,259
It says not to harden your hearts. You

1465
00:49:55,259 --> 00:49:56,535
wanna make sure you don't have that rocky

1466
00:49:56,535 --> 00:49:57,891
soul in your heart. Amen.

1467
00:49:59,025 --> 00:50:00,224
And listen to what he says, in hebrews

1468
00:50:00,224 --> 00:50:02,784
reached chapter 3 verse 1 and following. Therefore

1469
00:50:02,784 --> 00:50:04,945
holy brethren. By the way, he warning novel,

1470
00:50:05,025 --> 00:50:05,744
he was a believers was here.

1471
00:50:06,878 --> 00:50:08,232
It says holy brothers up there. Right?

1472
00:50:14,382 --> 00:50:16,297
Partake of a heavenly calling.

1473
00:50:17,414 --> 00:50:19,010
Consider Jesus. That's 1 of the main keys.

1474
00:50:19,249 --> 00:50:21,659
Keep your eyes on Jesus amen. Consider Jesus,

1475
00:50:21,818 --> 00:50:24,056
the apostle and I priest of our confession.

1476
00:50:24,456 --> 00:50:26,534
Therefore, just as the holy spirit says today,

1477
00:50:26,773 --> 00:50:28,452
if you hear his voice, do not harden

1478
00:50:28,452 --> 00:50:30,370
in your hearts as when they provoke me.

1479
00:50:30,864 --> 00:50:32,221
As the day of trial in the Wilderness.

1480
00:50:32,461 --> 00:50:34,057
Remember, meaning who got wiped out they never

1481
00:50:34,057 --> 00:50:34,776
made it the promised land.

1482
00:50:35,494 --> 00:50:37,010
He uses this as an example in the

1483
00:50:37,010 --> 00:50:39,427
context of Hebrews of for seeking

1484
00:50:39,979 --> 00:50:41,018
the road to eternal life.

1485
00:50:41,977 --> 00:50:43,974
Take care of brother and he says that

1486
00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:45,493
there not being any 1 of you what,

1487
00:50:46,132 --> 00:50:48,050
and evil, un believing heart that what.

1488
00:50:49,578 --> 00:50:50,452
Falls away from who,

1489
00:50:51,247 --> 00:50:52,996
the living god. So my relationship here.

1490
00:50:54,030 --> 00:50:55,382
That falls away from the living god. You

1491
00:50:55,382 --> 00:50:56,972
could fall away from the living god. Thus

1492
00:50:56,972 --> 00:50:57,847
it, the word of God.

1493
00:50:58,738 --> 00:51:01,290
But encourage 1 another day after day, as

1494
00:51:01,290 --> 00:51:03,045
long as it's still call today, so that

1495
00:51:03,045 --> 00:51:04,481
none of you will be hardened by the

1496
00:51:04,481 --> 00:51:05,278
d of sin.

1497
00:51:06,155 --> 00:51:07,671
For we have become partake of Christ,

1498
00:51:08,404 --> 00:51:08,904
ultimately,

1499
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,032
ultimately final salvation. If we hold fast beginning

1500
00:51:13,032 --> 00:51:14,069
of our insurance sweat.

1501
00:51:15,839 --> 00:51:18,950
Firm until the end. He's not questioning the

1502
00:51:18,950 --> 00:51:20,945
beginning of their insurance, some of yours translate

1503
00:51:20,945 --> 00:51:22,301
say the our original faith.

1504
00:51:23,033 --> 00:51:24,463
Just gotta hold that. He's not question the

1505
00:51:24,463 --> 00:51:25,655
original faith. Otherwise Say, hey you guys need

1506
00:51:25,655 --> 00:51:27,005
to get saved. No. He's saying hold that

1507
00:51:27,005 --> 00:51:28,992
you need to firm. It not when till

1508
00:51:28,992 --> 00:51:29,309
the end.

1509
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:31,311
Make sure your heart's aren't heart by the

1510
00:51:31,311 --> 00:51:32,822
people sin, it fall away from living god.

1511
00:51:32,902 --> 00:51:34,492
They have relationship with God, but it's in

1512
00:51:34,492 --> 00:51:36,082
jeopardy if they allow their hearts to be

1513
00:51:36,082 --> 00:51:38,706
heart. So don't allow your heart heart. Encourage

1514
00:51:38,706 --> 00:51:40,944
1 another daily That this is so instructive.

1515
00:51:41,182 --> 00:51:42,609
So when you're ministry to people when you're

1516
00:51:42,609 --> 00:51:44,116
cycling people, when you're encouraging them,

1517
00:51:44,829 --> 00:51:47,208
you're encouraging them, administering to them daily.

1518
00:51:48,496 --> 00:51:50,488
This is something that. And while Paul was

1519
00:51:50,488 --> 00:51:52,480
saying this, and now this is a Paul

1520
00:51:52,639 --> 00:51:55,109
Hebrews, but the apostles and so forth are

1521
00:51:55,109 --> 00:51:57,021
giving you this instruction when they didn't have

1522
00:51:57,021 --> 00:51:57,340
cell phones.

1523
00:51:59,023 --> 00:52:00,373
You had to be in a person's presence

1524
00:52:00,373 --> 00:52:02,200
or write them a letter, which is really

1525
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,582
hard to do it daily, but it it

1526
00:52:04,582 --> 00:52:06,329
it implies that we're gonna be round other

1527
00:52:06,329 --> 00:52:08,333
believers We're not gonna first because he says

1528
00:52:08,333 --> 00:52:10,324
in chapter 10, to 7 of ourselves together.

1529
00:52:10,722 --> 00:52:11,518
As the habit of some.

1530
00:52:12,234 --> 00:52:13,429
But get together all the words you see

1531
00:52:13,429 --> 00:52:14,543
the day of Christ approaching amen.

1532
00:52:15,835 --> 00:52:17,515
So this is all very, very, very important.

1533
00:52:19,755 --> 00:52:20,735
So I'm gonna

1534
00:52:21,594 --> 00:52:22,494
encourage you guys

1535
00:52:23,288 --> 00:52:25,464
to make sure you keep your heart soft

1536
00:52:25,842 --> 00:52:27,198
and make sure if you see somebody that

1537
00:52:27,198 --> 00:52:28,794
you're to if they start to get a

1538
00:52:28,794 --> 00:52:30,231
heart and heart towards somebody or your people.

1539
00:52:31,043 --> 00:52:32,793
Or or just Christians in general.

1540
00:52:33,429 --> 00:52:34,941
You know? Jeez I'll build my church gates

1541
00:52:35,021 --> 00:52:36,851
I won't prevail against it. Jesus has his

1542
00:52:36,851 --> 00:52:37,010
church.

1543
00:52:38,139 --> 00:52:39,570
Okay. You're always gonna have go through hard

1544
00:52:39,570 --> 00:52:39,809
times,

1545
00:52:40,923 --> 00:52:41,423
but

1546
00:52:42,117 --> 00:52:43,412
he's provided his

1547
00:52:43,787 --> 00:52:46,015
love his life is forgiveness, so we don't

1548
00:52:46,015 --> 00:52:48,818
have to allow our hearts to become hardened.

1549
00:52:49,615 --> 00:52:51,949
Now it's imperative that we recognize

1550
00:52:52,565 --> 00:52:54,876
that he also gives good examples and bad

1551
00:52:54,876 --> 00:52:55,115
examples.

1552
00:52:55,689 --> 00:52:57,365
He gives bad examples of what not to

1553
00:52:57,365 --> 00:52:57,865
do

1554
00:52:58,243 --> 00:52:59,520
and good examples of what to do.

1555
00:53:01,356 --> 00:53:03,431
It's important. So when you're sharing the with

1556
00:53:03,431 --> 00:53:05,515
people, and you wanna give them an encouragement.

1557
00:53:05,674 --> 00:53:06,788
You could say, be like this. Look at

1558
00:53:06,788 --> 00:53:08,696
this brother man. He stood fast.

1559
00:53:09,333 --> 00:53:11,241
Look at Joseph, he'd fled when there temptation.

1560
00:53:12,449 --> 00:53:14,695
But he also gives examples of those who

1561
00:53:14,910 --> 00:53:15,783
walked away from the Lord.

1562
00:53:17,291 --> 00:53:19,197
And the off of Hebrews talks about the

1563
00:53:19,197 --> 00:53:19,832
wilderness people.

1564
00:53:20,483 --> 00:53:22,233
How most of them did make it. And

1565
00:53:22,233 --> 00:53:23,983
look at Hebrews reached chapter 4 now, verse

1566
00:53:23,983 --> 00:53:26,369
1, up on your screen as well right

1567
00:53:26,369 --> 00:53:28,438
now. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 1 and then

1568
00:53:28,438 --> 00:53:31,087
11, Therefore, let us fear if while a

1569
00:53:31,087 --> 00:53:33,084
promise remains of entering his rest.

1570
00:53:34,522 --> 00:53:36,360
Any 1 of you may seem to wet.

1571
00:53:37,253 --> 00:53:39,247
Have come short of it. Therefore, let us

1572
00:53:39,247 --> 00:53:41,081
be diligent to enter that rest,

1573
00:53:41,958 --> 00:53:44,511
so that no 1 will fall through following

1574
00:53:44,511 --> 00:53:46,186
the same example of disobedience.

1575
00:53:46,757 --> 00:53:48,903
Don't follow the example of the wilderness people.

1576
00:53:49,141 --> 00:53:51,128
He became murmur... They start mermaid against God.

1577
00:53:51,366 --> 00:53:53,750
So our complaining against God. Don't let that

1578
00:53:53,750 --> 00:53:54,465
happen. Amen.

1579
00:53:55,992 --> 00:53:58,805
And then in Hebrews 11. He talks about

1580
00:53:58,943 --> 00:54:00,538
the... That's a hall faith chapter. All these

1581
00:54:00,538 --> 00:54:01,336
guys that did it right.

1582
00:54:02,133 --> 00:54:03,888
He says all of these, He said, in

1583
00:54:03,968 --> 00:54:06,057
Hebrews chapter 11. All of these wet... Those

1584
00:54:06,057 --> 00:54:06,696
first 5 words.

1585
00:54:07,494 --> 00:54:07,893
Faith.

1586
00:54:09,011 --> 00:54:10,847
All these died in the faith for 6

1587
00:54:10,847 --> 00:54:12,603
words now they count them. All these died

1588
00:54:12,603 --> 00:54:14,574
in the faith, and he talks about these

1589
00:54:14,693 --> 00:54:15,805
states that have gone before us who were

1590
00:54:15,805 --> 00:54:17,711
looking for the Heavenly city. They died in

1591
00:54:17,711 --> 00:54:20,172
the faith amen. Look at their examples. Oh,

1592
00:54:20,252 --> 00:54:22,158
it's so hard. No. It's not too hard.

1593
00:54:22,729 --> 00:54:23,845
It's if you do on your own, it's

1594
00:54:23,845 --> 00:54:25,120
too hard, but if you put your roots

1595
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:26,793
in Jesus, you look to him for your

1596
00:54:26,793 --> 00:54:28,148
salvation. You have victory Amen.

1597
00:54:29,503 --> 00:54:30,141
It's pretty awesome.

1598
00:54:34,536 --> 00:54:35,890
Let's go to Luke chapter. We're gonna jump

1599
00:54:35,890 --> 00:54:37,563
right to Luke chapter 8 verse 14.

1600
00:54:39,728 --> 00:54:42,038
We looked at the Call heart. We looked

1601
00:54:42,038 --> 00:54:42,617
at the

1602
00:54:42,994 --> 00:54:45,542
shallow heart. Now we looked at the crowded

1603
00:54:45,542 --> 00:54:45,701
heart.

1604
00:54:46,976 --> 00:54:47,453
Crowded heart.

1605
00:54:48,664 --> 00:54:49,483
We looked at the

1606
00:54:49,940 --> 00:54:52,175
Call heart, the Shell heart, now the crowded

1607
00:54:52,175 --> 00:54:53,611
heart, Luke 08:14.

1608
00:54:54,010 --> 00:54:55,627
The seed which fell among the thorn

1609
00:54:56,658 --> 00:54:58,014
These are the ones who have heard,

1610
00:54:58,891 --> 00:55:00,405
and as they go on their way,

1611
00:55:01,362 --> 00:55:02,261
they are choked

1612
00:55:02,877 --> 00:55:04,951
with worries and riches and what.

1613
00:55:05,842 --> 00:55:08,255
Pleasures of this life and bring no fruit

1614
00:55:08,312 --> 00:55:09,268
to maturity.

1615
00:55:10,782 --> 00:55:12,615
So these are those whose house are hearts

1616
00:55:12,615 --> 00:55:14,527
are crowded with worry, you know,

1617
00:55:15,658 --> 00:55:17,014
They're crowded with, you know,

1618
00:55:18,050 --> 00:55:19,566
riches, the pleasures of this life.

1619
00:55:20,284 --> 00:55:21,559
That's a lot of people.

1620
00:55:22,437 --> 00:55:23,314
He covers a lot of ground.

1621
00:55:25,083 --> 00:55:26,515
Those who have the threat of poverty.

1622
00:55:27,071 --> 00:55:28,423
They worry, you know?

1623
00:55:29,218 --> 00:55:30,888
But there's answers. We can give answers for

1624
00:55:30,888 --> 00:55:33,353
those who there earn their struggles to depend

1625
00:55:33,353 --> 00:55:34,546
on Jesus Amen,

1626
00:55:37,347 --> 00:55:39,018
James 4... Our first Peter 4 says,

1627
00:55:39,894 --> 00:55:41,884
cast your cares upon him because he went.

1628
00:55:42,918 --> 00:55:44,112
Cares for you. Amen.

1629
00:55:45,878 --> 00:55:47,869
Fully chapter 4 versus 7 and 8. Right?

1630
00:55:48,187 --> 00:55:50,416
Be anxious for nothing, but it's everything with

1631
00:55:50,416 --> 00:55:52,646
parent application. Right? And thanksgiving.

1632
00:55:52,980 --> 00:55:53,619
With parental.

1633
00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:55,940
Make your request be made known to God

1634
00:55:55,940 --> 00:55:57,220
amen. And what's he gonna do?

1635
00:55:57,940 --> 00:55:58,500
Keep you what.

1636
00:55:59,059 --> 00:56:00,260
And his perfect peace. Amen.

1637
00:56:01,310 --> 00:56:03,293
Keep you in his perfect peace. What awesome.

1638
00:56:03,532 --> 00:56:05,356
God, We have, I love Isaiah 26 3.

1639
00:56:06,070 --> 00:56:08,549
That will keep him in perfect peace whose

1640
00:56:08,549 --> 00:56:12,086
mind is stayed on thee because he trusts

1641
00:56:12,145 --> 00:56:12,545
and you.

1642
00:56:13,664 --> 00:56:16,061
Keep your mind stayed on Jesus man. You'll

1643
00:56:16,061 --> 00:56:18,393
be kept in perfect peace. Watch out for

1644
00:56:18,393 --> 00:56:20,551
the desire for riches. They can crowd out

1645
00:56:20,551 --> 00:56:21,270
the word in your faith.

1646
00:56:22,309 --> 00:56:24,706
As somebody tell me before, Joe, a pretty

1647
00:56:24,706 --> 00:56:26,472
well to new guy. He goes people don't

1648
00:56:26,472 --> 00:56:27,982
realize having a lot of money.

1649
00:56:28,856 --> 00:56:30,921
It's not always such a blessing. He goes

1650
00:56:30,921 --> 00:56:32,431
because there's far more temptation I face because

1651
00:56:32,510 --> 00:56:33,304
I have all this money.

1652
00:56:34,434 --> 00:56:35,631
I thought, wow. It's pretty heavy.

1653
00:56:37,308 --> 00:56:38,665
Lord, don't give me too little worm tempted

1654
00:56:38,665 --> 00:56:40,821
to steal, but Lord, says in the in

1655
00:56:40,821 --> 00:56:42,657
the bible. No old testament. Don't give me

1656
00:56:42,657 --> 00:56:43,216
too much way.

1657
00:56:44,108 --> 00:56:44,824
Can forget you.

1658
00:56:45,699 --> 00:56:47,847
Don't let the Lord be crowded out of

1659
00:56:47,847 --> 00:56:48,165
your life.

1660
00:56:49,676 --> 00:56:50,551
Remember leo see you,

1661
00:56:51,521 --> 00:56:52,634
Then he says the pleasure of life.

1662
00:56:53,668 --> 00:56:55,737
Man, there are more pleasures at our fingertips

1663
00:56:55,737 --> 00:56:56,452
than ever before.

1664
00:56:58,615 --> 00:56:59,887
And you can allow sports,

1665
00:57:01,317 --> 00:57:01,715
music,

1666
00:57:02,668 --> 00:57:03,168
movies

1667
00:57:04,417 --> 00:57:06,245
for things of this world, some things that

1668
00:57:06,245 --> 00:57:06,802
are evil,

1669
00:57:07,293 --> 00:57:09,362
some things that are necessarily evil. The bible

1670
00:57:09,362 --> 00:57:11,191
talks about keeping your eyes on Jesus, the

1671
00:57:11,191 --> 00:57:13,680
often finish for faith and to set aside

1672
00:57:14,309 --> 00:57:15,988
what? So ease not just sin, but what

1673
00:57:15,988 --> 00:57:18,625
easily ent us. Things can ent and en

1674
00:57:18,625 --> 00:57:21,103
en that aren't necessarily sin. There could be

1675
00:57:21,103 --> 00:57:23,021
really cool things that aren't sin. Oh, it's

1676
00:57:23,021 --> 00:57:25,503
not sinful to actually go play ball at

1677
00:57:25,503 --> 00:57:27,250
the park with my kid. But if you

1678
00:57:27,250 --> 00:57:28,441
have to do it every Sunday morning instead

1679
00:57:28,441 --> 00:57:28,996
of come to church.

1680
00:57:29,711 --> 00:57:31,219
That could become a problem. You can crown

1681
00:57:31,219 --> 00:57:32,410
out the lord from your life. Amen.

1682
00:57:33,460 --> 00:57:34,819
Find out that fine times to be foolish

1683
00:57:34,980 --> 00:57:35,859
Make sure you're steady.

1684
00:57:36,500 --> 00:57:38,980
Don't allow the lord Jesus to be crowded

1685
00:57:38,980 --> 00:57:41,059
out of your heart. Amen. Are you with

1686
00:57:41,059 --> 00:57:41,460
me today?

1687
00:57:42,912 --> 00:57:44,025
That's very, very serious.

1688
00:57:49,032 --> 00:57:50,542
And I love this, man, because now let's

1689
00:57:50,542 --> 00:57:51,360
look at the

1690
00:57:51,909 --> 00:57:52,863
I had to pick it up a little

1691
00:57:52,863 --> 00:57:53,022
bit.

1692
00:57:54,135 --> 00:57:54,635
But

1693
00:57:59,719 --> 00:58:01,072
I'll do a part 2 of this on

1694
00:58:01,072 --> 00:58:01,572
a

1695
00:58:01,947 --> 00:58:03,402
Wednesday night pretty soon

1696
00:58:03,777 --> 00:58:05,050
because I I wanna make sure I get

1697
00:58:05,050 --> 00:58:05,447
done on time.

1698
00:58:10,077 --> 00:58:10,952
Lot of good stuff here.

1699
00:58:15,423 --> 00:58:16,702
What's the last way like, guys?

1700
00:58:17,740 --> 00:58:19,498
What's the last 1 like? Do you see

1701
00:58:19,498 --> 00:58:19,578
it?

1702
00:58:21,096 --> 00:58:21,735
It's a good soil.

1703
00:58:22,389 --> 00:58:24,387
And what's a good soil, like, first 15.

1704
00:58:24,786 --> 00:58:25,685
But the seed

1705
00:58:26,463 --> 00:58:28,461
in the good soil. These are the ones

1706
00:58:28,461 --> 00:58:30,786
who have what? Heard the word in an

1707
00:58:30,786 --> 00:58:31,899
honest and good heart.

1708
00:58:32,773 --> 00:58:33,965
Now, they're honest.

1709
00:58:34,522 --> 00:58:36,271
Yeah. I'm a sinner. Eyes are to be

1710
00:58:36,271 --> 00:58:36,509
damned.

1711
00:58:37,958 --> 00:58:39,315
The condition of the heart is in a

1712
00:58:39,315 --> 00:58:40,034
right standing.

1713
00:58:40,832 --> 00:58:41,869
It's a plow of heart.

1714
00:58:42,508 --> 00:58:43,248
There's the

1715
00:58:44,025 --> 00:58:46,635
call heart. There's the shallow heart. There's the

1716
00:58:46,834 --> 00:58:50,186
crowded heart. This is a plow heart. I

1717
00:58:50,186 --> 00:58:51,304
had to make sure plow was a word.

1718
00:58:51,463 --> 00:58:53,220
I look it up. Like, I even a

1719
00:58:53,220 --> 00:58:54,497
word It is. It's a... Or you can

1720
00:58:54,497 --> 00:58:55,295
say it's a plowed heart.

1721
00:58:55,948 --> 00:58:57,623
It's a heart where god's worked in someone's

1722
00:58:57,623 --> 00:58:59,478
heart and they've responded

1723
00:58:59,935 --> 00:59:02,487
and their disposition before God is 1 of

1724
00:59:02,487 --> 00:59:04,002
humility. If you don't become, like 1 of

1725
00:59:04,002 --> 00:59:05,530
these little children and get converted to you

1726
00:59:05,530 --> 00:59:06,803
and says, you have no part of the

1727
00:59:06,803 --> 00:59:08,872
king of God. God gives grace the humble

1728
00:59:08,872 --> 00:59:10,304
when he resist the proud. These also say,

1729
00:59:10,384 --> 00:59:13,128
yeah, I deserve damn nation. Not through anything

1730
00:59:13,186 --> 00:59:15,579
good in them that they receive salvation. As

1731
00:59:15,579 --> 00:59:17,015
far as merit goes, it's all by the

1732
00:59:17,094 --> 00:59:18,052
Merit of Jesus and what he did in

1733
00:59:18,052 --> 00:59:19,806
the cross. But their hearts are of such

1734
00:59:19,806 --> 00:59:22,688
a condition that they receive, the gift of

1735
00:59:22,688 --> 00:59:25,067
eternal life. Amen. And notice what he says

1736
00:59:25,067 --> 00:59:26,416
here, very, very important.

1737
00:59:28,081 --> 00:59:29,508
But the seed in the good soil,

1738
00:59:30,397 --> 00:59:31,829
These are the ones you have heard the

1739
00:59:31,829 --> 00:59:33,659
word with an honest and good heart, and

1740
00:59:33,659 --> 00:59:33,977
they what,

1741
00:59:35,171 --> 00:59:36,284
Hold it fast.

1742
00:59:37,573 --> 00:59:39,085
They hold it fast. They hold on to

1743
00:59:39,085 --> 00:59:39,244
it.

1744
00:59:40,836 --> 00:59:42,905
Their roots are digging in deep man. They're

1745
00:59:42,905 --> 00:59:44,338
not letting go of Jesus in his word.

1746
00:59:44,816 --> 00:59:46,328
And they bear fruit. Amen.

1747
00:59:47,857 --> 00:59:48,814
And they do it with what,

1748
00:59:50,090 --> 00:59:50,968
perseverance man.

1749
00:59:52,005 --> 00:59:54,158
They're like, man, I'm holding on. And sometimes

1750
00:59:54,158 --> 00:59:55,355
as I believe you may see. I wish

1751
00:59:55,434 --> 00:59:56,971
I saw more fruit in my life and

1752
00:59:57,124 --> 00:59:59,669
And... But it says they bear fruit as

1753
00:59:59,669 --> 01:00:01,203
thinking James says with patience

1754
01:00:01,737 --> 01:00:02,237
with,

1755
01:00:02,612 --> 01:00:04,123
how do they bear fruit? Because they hold

1756
01:00:04,123 --> 01:00:05,077
on to the word.

1757
01:00:06,049 --> 01:00:06,209
Amen.

1758
01:00:07,328 --> 01:00:09,805
And they persevere they hold it, and they

1759
01:00:09,805 --> 01:00:12,043
don't let go of his word. Amen. You

1760
01:00:12,043 --> 01:00:13,321
wanna make sure you do that. It's not

1761
01:00:13,321 --> 01:00:15,725
worth throwing away his word. And have eternal

1762
01:00:15,725 --> 01:00:16,122
condemnation isn't it?

1763
01:00:17,947 --> 01:00:19,296
Hold on to his word no matter what.

1764
01:00:20,327 --> 01:00:21,359
And they do it with perseverance.

1765
01:00:22,485 --> 01:00:23,755
They bear fruit. It takes time.

1766
01:00:24,866 --> 01:00:26,215
How how many are you like me, you

1767
01:00:26,215 --> 01:00:27,961
know, I I remember I played a big

1768
01:00:27,961 --> 01:00:28,993
garden that I walked out there.

1769
01:00:30,204 --> 01:00:31,801
I was expecting to see things pop up

1770
01:00:31,801 --> 01:00:33,399
sooner than they did. To a little impatient.

1771
01:00:34,837 --> 01:00:35,476
Where's is the fruit?

1772
01:00:36,690 --> 01:00:38,130
But, you know what? You can't plant a

1773
01:00:38,130 --> 01:00:39,809
plant and then water and just stand there

1774
01:00:39,809 --> 01:00:41,489
and say, why, God, Why is it coming

1775
01:00:41,489 --> 01:00:43,969
up yet? Oh, it take some patience. Take

1776
01:00:43,969 --> 01:00:44,849
a perseverance and say, amen?

1777
01:00:45,740 --> 01:00:47,642
Just keep perseverance and following jesus as you

1778
01:00:47,642 --> 01:00:48,672
will have fruit. Amen.

1779
01:00:49,543 --> 01:00:52,079
Don't throw in the towel. Don't give up.

1780
01:00:52,807 --> 01:00:54,793
By way of application.

1781
01:00:56,144 --> 01:00:56,621
Number 1.

1782
01:00:58,289 --> 01:01:00,195
Don't have a Call heart. Repent of having

1783
01:01:00,195 --> 01:01:02,438
a Call heart. Who has here's verse 8,

1784
01:01:02,836 --> 01:01:05,225
let him hear, open yourself up to god's

1785
01:01:05,225 --> 01:01:05,464
word.

1786
01:01:06,101 --> 01:01:08,888
James 01:21. Therefore it says, therefore put inside

1787
01:01:08,888 --> 01:01:09,525
all filth.

1788
01:01:09,940 --> 01:01:11,139
And all that remains a wicked,

1789
01:01:11,780 --> 01:01:12,920
receive the implanted

1790
01:01:13,300 --> 01:01:15,699
word, the seed was able to save your

1791
01:01:15,699 --> 01:01:16,179
souls. Amen.

1792
01:01:16,820 --> 01:01:18,019
Don't harden your hearts.

1793
01:01:18,579 --> 01:01:18,820
Amen.

1794
01:01:20,032 --> 01:01:22,020
Beware of being a shallow christian,

1795
01:01:22,815 --> 01:01:25,224
be prepared for tribulation and trials

1796
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,667
and say, hey, I gotta trust God here

1797
01:01:27,667 --> 01:01:29,350
and let and say I know that God's

1798
01:01:29,350 --> 01:01:30,858
doing a work in me, and I gotta

1799
01:01:30,858 --> 01:01:32,366
trust him because if he died in the

1800
01:01:32,366 --> 01:01:33,795
cross, he's not gonna put me through more

1801
01:01:33,795 --> 01:01:35,144
than I can handle. That's 1 of the

1802
01:01:35,144 --> 01:01:37,306
promises. They talks about in regard to trials

1803
01:01:37,306 --> 01:01:39,057
and temptation. Just doesn't give us more than

1804
01:01:39,057 --> 01:01:41,127
we handle these faithful amen to give us

1805
01:01:41,127 --> 01:01:43,276
a way out and through our experiences.

1806
01:01:44,167 --> 01:01:44,327
Amen.

1807
01:01:45,522 --> 01:01:48,310
C, that's a and b, c, beware of

1808
01:01:48,310 --> 01:01:49,346
having a crowded heart.

1809
01:01:51,098 --> 01:01:52,373
Beware of having a crowded heart. Remember a

1810
01:01:52,373 --> 01:01:52,532
lot.

1811
01:01:53,584 --> 01:01:55,739
Remember lot... Jesus said remember lot's wife,

1812
01:01:56,856 --> 01:01:58,771
she turned around and went back. Or she

1813
01:01:58,771 --> 01:02:00,128
turned around and you didn't get a chance

1814
01:02:00,128 --> 01:02:01,086
to go back, Boom you gone.

1815
01:02:02,059 --> 01:02:04,139
Because she had... Lots wife had lots of

1816
01:02:04,139 --> 01:02:04,780
things I assume.

1817
01:02:05,500 --> 01:02:06,780
And she was looking back at all of

1818
01:02:06,780 --> 01:02:08,300
them. I don't wanna leave the world.

1819
01:02:09,194 --> 01:02:10,625
K. Don't have a crowded heart. Right now,

1820
01:02:10,784 --> 01:02:11,818
you need to examine your heart and say

1821
01:02:11,897 --> 01:02:13,090
Lord. Am I allowed in my heart to

1822
01:02:13,090 --> 01:02:14,942
be crowded with things where Losing my passion

1823
01:02:14,998 --> 01:02:15,475
for Jesus.

1824
01:02:16,270 --> 01:02:16,429
Amen?

1825
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,480
Don't lose your passion for the Lord amen,

1826
01:02:20,359 --> 01:02:21,579
whether it's through sin

1827
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:22,940
or through en inc

1828
01:02:23,239 --> 01:02:24,920
that way you down even though they're not

1829
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:25,960
sinful in of themselves.

1830
01:02:26,932 --> 01:02:27,592
Have things

1831
01:02:28,049 --> 01:02:29,086
in a right biblical order.

1832
01:02:29,884 --> 01:02:30,123
D,

1833
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,153
hold fast to the word and do it

1834
01:02:33,153 --> 01:02:33,473
with what,

1835
01:02:34,190 --> 01:02:34,690
perseverance,

1836
01:02:35,307 --> 01:02:35,467
amen.

1837
01:02:36,597 --> 01:02:36,755
Amen.

1838
01:02:38,105 --> 01:02:38,343
E.

1839
01:02:39,612 --> 01:02:41,518
Last 1 I share with you. B the

1840
01:02:41,518 --> 01:02:43,264
hands and feet of the lord Jesus. Amen.

1841
01:02:44,073 --> 01:02:46,380
Be sores of the seed. Amen.

1842
01:02:47,972 --> 01:02:48,609
Sow a seed.

1843
01:02:49,563 --> 01:02:51,809
I love San Corinthians chapter 9. Verse 6

1844
01:02:51,809 --> 01:02:53,887
and following. I know it's talking about giving

1845
01:02:53,887 --> 01:02:55,645
and giving generously in the Lord, you know,

1846
01:02:55,885 --> 01:02:57,962
and so forth, but... Has this application, I

1847
01:02:57,962 --> 01:02:59,720
believe toward also planting seeds.

1848
01:03:00,612 --> 01:03:02,283
Paul writes in verse 6 of chapter 9

1849
01:03:02,283 --> 01:03:05,249
of second corinthians. Remember this, whoever so sparingly

1850
01:03:05,465 --> 01:03:06,419
will also reap what.

1851
01:03:07,549 --> 01:03:11,006
Sparingly. And whoever sow generously will also reap

1852
01:03:11,065 --> 01:03:11,545
generously.

1853
01:03:12,184 --> 01:03:14,102
Each 1 of you should give what you

1854
01:03:14,102 --> 01:03:15,700
have decided in your own heart to give.

1855
01:03:16,193 --> 01:03:18,898
Not reluctant. We're under comp for God loves

1856
01:03:18,898 --> 01:03:20,648
a cheerful give. So, yeah, We're supposed to

1857
01:03:20,648 --> 01:03:22,319
give to the kingdom of amen, but guess

1858
01:03:22,319 --> 01:03:23,910
what? We should shall also be giving the

1859
01:03:23,910 --> 01:03:24,546
seed out amen.

1860
01:03:25,594 --> 01:03:27,101
And right here, how many out of the

1861
01:03:27,101 --> 01:03:28,530
4 people ended up saved in the very

1862
01:03:28,530 --> 01:03:29,030
end

1863
01:03:29,721 --> 01:03:30,435
4 so, how many?

1864
01:03:31,229 --> 01:03:31,467
1.

1865
01:03:33,229 --> 01:03:35,057
That shows me if my math is right

1866
01:03:35,057 --> 01:03:37,282
that I don't think Jesus meant it exactly

1867
01:03:37,282 --> 01:03:38,872
this way, but maybe 1 in 4 people

1868
01:03:38,872 --> 01:03:39,429
we witnessed to.

1869
01:03:40,558 --> 01:03:41,675
Might have saved in the very end.

1870
01:03:42,791 --> 01:03:44,168
That means if I witness to

1871
01:03:45,742 --> 01:03:47,996
4 people won, but I witness to

1872
01:03:48,693 --> 01:03:49,251
40 people,

1873
01:03:49,984 --> 01:03:50,223
10.

1874
01:03:50,861 --> 01:03:52,775
I wish the 440.

1875
01:03:53,094 --> 01:03:59,555
I missed a 928000.

1876
01:04:00,764 --> 01:04:02,036
Well, it's a 1 to 1 rich it,

1877
01:04:02,275 --> 01:04:03,866
they quit exact, No, Probably not.

1878
01:04:04,503 --> 01:04:06,014
But the idea is the more we witness

1879
01:04:06,014 --> 01:04:07,844
and share the gospel, the more people be

1880
01:04:07,844 --> 01:04:08,321
saved amen.

1881
01:04:09,131 --> 01:04:10,721
Let's be the hands and feet of Jesus

1882
01:04:10,721 --> 01:04:11,221
because

1883
01:04:11,993 --> 01:04:12,470
Luke 1,

1884
01:04:13,106 --> 01:04:15,491
acts 1, same writer, Luke says, to Gospel

1885
01:04:15,570 --> 01:04:17,161
Luke I wrote to share what James began

1886
01:04:17,161 --> 01:04:17,478
to do.

1887
01:04:18,210 --> 01:04:19,969
But guess what? Acts. He's continued to do

1888
01:04:19,969 --> 01:04:21,969
it through the body. Let's share the word.

1889
01:04:22,289 --> 01:04:24,289
Amen, Let's be in fire for Jesus. Let's

1890
01:04:24,289 --> 01:04:26,369
be witnesses. Let's hold fast the word with

1891
01:04:26,369 --> 01:04:28,218
perseverance. And we will see fruit in our

1892
01:04:28,218 --> 01:04:28,775
lives. Amen.

1893
01:04:29,731 --> 01:04:30,845
Praise can we all stand.

1894
01:04:31,721 --> 01:04:32,278
Love you guys.