Shawn Snobelen – Be Not Ashamed – Class 2 – Without Excuse

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All right, this is the 2024
Watch and Lake Bible School.

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Our third period speaker is our
brother Sean Snowblind.

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His second class, which he will
be delivering to us, is entitled

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Be Not Ashamed without Excuse.
Well, thank you brother and, and

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welcome everyone to Class 2.
A couple of the comments that I

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got last night.
And by the way, I really

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appreciate all the comments that
I got and we’ll we’ll reference

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some of them during the course
of this talk, God willing.

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One of them was that it’s very
distinct that was given to me by

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two or three people, including
my wife, was that I went

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overtime by 10 minutes.
And with a title like that, I am

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therefore without excuse about
the timing on on this one.

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So we opened yesterday’s class
by looking at the the theme for

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the week.
Paul’s bold statement in in

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Romans chapter 1 and 16.
For I am not ashamed of the

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gospel, for it is the power of
God unto salvation to everyone

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that believes.
And those in Christ believe in

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the existence of the Almighty
God.

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And that he has called us out of
darkness that we might share in

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his glorious light.
And, and we also looked at the

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the sense that we have to
believe in God’s future and his

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future promises and in a knowing
and believing that there is a

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future will help us make
decisions in the present day.

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And we looked at how God has
made us in his image that we

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might be like him and that we
might act like him and manifest

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who he is and that his character
might form our character in our

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lives.
And so I think it’s a very

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profound and it’s a very
humbling thing what our God has

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done for us, that he surrounded
us with his name, that he

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surrounded us with his
character, and that he has

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surrounded us with his power.
That literally everywhere we

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look we might see the character
of God.

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Now, I’ve often thought of this,
and I’m sure you have as well,

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that when we walk into our
ecclesial hall, we should.

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See Christ everywhere manifest.
If we are all in embodying the

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the characteristics and the the
spiritual divine characteristics

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of of our Lord Jesus Christ that
when we walk into our collegial

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hall, we should see it reflected
in all the brethren and sisters.

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I wish that were true and I wish
that were true for myself

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because oftentimes I don’t
manifest those characteristics

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in my life.
But I think that’s something we

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should think of when we walk
through the doors and not not

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just our ecclesial hall, of
course, but in our families,

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even in in our place of, of work
or where we go to school, that

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we should be reflecting God’s
character and the character of

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his Son in our lives.
And so the message for this

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class is that that we see God
everywhere.

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And so therefore we are without
excuse.

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So turn to Romans chapter 1 and
let’s just look at this section

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where the Apostle Paul talks
about this very thing.

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And we went over this quite a
bit with the with the young

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people.
And I have a statement I want to

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make about the young people at
the end as well.

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That those that deny the
existence of God are without

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excuse.
But at the same time, and I

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think even in a greater way,
those of us who are believers or

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even more without excuse.
But look at what Paul says.

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For what can be known about God
is plain to them because God has

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shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes,

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namely His eternal power and
divine nature have been clearly

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perceived ever since the
creation of the world and the

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things that have been made so
that they are without excuse.

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Now I’m sure you know what these
word meanings are, and I didn’t

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when I did this study, but if
you have clearly perceived, I

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think from the ESV in your
Bible, it means to behold fully.

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It means to experience the
physicality, the emotional

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nature, the spiritual nature of
God.

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That’s what it means to clearly
perceive.

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It’s not obscured.
It’s not difficult to see.

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God is everywhere.
And when Paul says there without

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excuse, it’s this interesting
word.

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So we are Christian apologetics.
We defend our faith.

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This is the opposite.
This is in the Greek and

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apologetics.
There is no excuse, there is no

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defense for anyone to say that
they cannot see God.

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And so the truth of God exists
all around us, His eternal

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power, as Paul says, and his
divine nature.

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These attributes are to be held
fully in everything that we see,

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in everything that is being
made, and that we are without

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excuse.
We have no apology and no

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defense.
It’s it’s irrefutable.

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So the nature of God should be
manifest in US and it’s

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irrefutable to everybody in the
world to see.

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And how long has that been going
on?

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Since the very beginning of
time.

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And where is that happening?
Everywhere God saw fit to make

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sure that his character and his
nature and his divine power

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could be seen everywhere all at
once.

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Like you just think about the
words that Paul says.

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That’s incredible.
Not only God, in his infinite

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love and mercy would make
himself available, but it would

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be so obvious.
That we would be indefensible,

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That we would be without excuse
now.

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Then Paul goes on to talk about
the wrath of God.

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And so why is God angry?
Well, God is angry for two

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specific reasons.
And I think this resonated, I, I

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hope with the young people as we
try to understand what what Paul

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is talking about.
It says in verse 80 where the

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wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness

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and unrighteousness of men who
hold the truth and

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unrighteousness.
So so why is God anger?

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Well, these these two words are
very specific.

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Ungodliness, this word in the
Greek for Asabaya, the word

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generally translates in the New
Testament as ungodliness.

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And in most cases, in some cases
it’s translated as reverence.

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And it refers to this proper,
this lack of reverence for God,

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failing to worship God, failing
to honor God as he is.

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And we’ll call that, you know,
our vertical relationship with

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God.
So the first thing God is angry

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at is that man has severed that
vertical relationship with God,

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that mankind is no longer
inhabiting the image that God

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created him in.
And the second word for

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unrighteousness is this word
attakiya.

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In the Greek, this word is
typically translated as

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unrighteous.
But what we’ll find in Class 4

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is that it’s also translated as
injustice and righteousness and

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justice.
Are these Co equal terms in the

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New Testament, which will come
up when we look at social

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justice?
And so it comes as all the we

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can say, the moral wrongs, the
unjust actions that violate

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God’s ethical standards and his
morality.

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We’ll call that the horizontal
relationship we have with our

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fellow man.
So not only has has man severed

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the relationship with God in our
ungodly behavior, but we have

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also separated our relationship
severed.

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That relationship with mankind
and that’s why we see chaos in

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our society.
And so Paul says we are without

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excuse.
It’s indefensible.

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It’s an apologetic.
Our situation of being in a

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state of dishonor with God and
wickedness before man cannot be

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defended or tolerated.
So this is very a very serious

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accusation that Paul is leveling
at those that are unrighteous.

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And so This is why God is angry.
The very reason why God created

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all things in the 1st place was
so that man would see him

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everywhere.
And the very reason God created

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him in his image was so that man
would see God and inhabit that

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likeness, that image, that form
and be like God and to act like

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God.
And yet what we have today is a

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complete reversal of that in
every way, shape and form, where

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mankind is now embodying the
ungodly and unrighteousness of

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humanism.
Now I’m sure everybody knows

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who.
This man is Professor Richard

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Dawkins, and we’ve heard all of
his quotes, I think.

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I think the.
Best thing I’ve.

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Heard about Richard Dawkins and
I’ll show you the video at some

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other time is when he finally,
finally admits under cross

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examination that Christ did
exist.

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I think it’s just the most
wonderful thing from this

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atheist who for years said
Christ the the historical Jesus

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didn’t exist.
But Richard Dawkins this this

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infamous evolutionary biologist
and we’ll say militant atheist,

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neo Darwinist as he likes to
refer to himself.

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Was being interviewed for a
documentary about 20 years ago

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and the last question that the
interviewer asked him was Mr.

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Dawkins.
What if you actually meet God

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someday and God condemns your
rejection of him?

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What are you going to say?
And as arrogant as this man is,

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he said he responded to the
interfaces.

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I would say, Sir, why did you
take such great pains to hide

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yourself?
You know, we can look at this

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man and we can hear his
statement.

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It would just be, you know,
awestruck at the.

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Ignorance of this kind?
I’ve asked my brother Stephen.

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Who kind of walks in these
circles who I don’t think yet

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has met Professor Richard
Dawkins.

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And what are you going to say
when you do meet him?

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And he’s, he’s going to say, how
come you’ve never read the

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Bible?
Like, so we find it mind

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blowing.
But I, I, if we’re thinking

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about the person that the
apostle Paul is, is referring to

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in Romans chapter 1, it’s this
kind of person because as a

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evolutionary microbiologist who
should see the intricate and

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beautiful detail in the cell
which we will look at tonight,

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God willing that he could
suppress that truth in his own

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life.
And I think that’s the person

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the apostle Paul is talking
about.

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South Man has inhabited God’s
image with ungodliness.

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It says in Psalm 53 and verse 2.
So God looked down from heaven

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upon the children of men to see
if there were any.

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That didn’t understand or to
seek God and every one of them

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had gone back.
They were all together become

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filthy.
There was none that doeth good.

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No, not one.
And so man has continued to

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pursue this ungodliness and this
unrighteousness and humanism is

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is as old as mankind itself,
right?

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I mean it goes back to the time
of Adam and Eve in the Garden of

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Eden, given everything.
They were literally given

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everything separated from
creation in their own ecclesia.

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And said they saw something that
they wanted to put themselves in

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line first ahead of God.
You know, they, they thought

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they could be a better version
of themselves.

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And I say that because about 10
years ago there was a bus ad for

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a beauty product that was
running in, in downtown

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Victoria.
And the, the, the tag line from

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it, I never was able to
photograph it.

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So I can’t prove that the story
is correct.

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It said be a better version of
yourself.

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And then it showed this
beautiful model who had, you

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know, a before and after like
ugly and then beautiful because

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of the makeup.
And I that that’s, that stuck

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with me that we are not in this
world under God to be a better

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version of ourselves.
God doesn’t want a better

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version of ourselves.
God.

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Wants us to represent his Son.
And so mankind, since the dawn

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of civilization, has tried to
subvert the existence of God in

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ways that make it possible for
us to live the life that we

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want, free from, as it were, the
influence of God, the free from

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the guilt to follow our own
sinful lives.

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And so this is the issue.
This is why God is angry.

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This is why God is wrathful.
And God has every right.

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To be wrathful, it says in
Romans 1 and 28, and we read

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part of this the other night.
And since they did not see fit

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to acknowledge God, God gave
them up to a debased mind to do

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what ought not to be done.
They were filled with all manner

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of unrighteous evil,
covetousness, malice.

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They were full of envy, murder,
strife, maliciousness, gossip,

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etcetera.
So it’s like God got to a point

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and said, if this is what you,
it’s like with Pharaoh, right?

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We some people say, oh, it’s was
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you know, harden Pharaoh’s
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And if God does that to us,
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I say well.
God’s world, and by the way,

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Pharaoh hardened his own heart,
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And then God said, if that’s
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you will have.
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with us today, with mankind.
You know, it’s like you think

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about.
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Heartbroken God must have been.
When he looked down on mankind

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in Genesis chapter 6 before the
flood and as it says, he only

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saw evil completely.
You know, it’s, it’s a very sad

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state of affairs that God would
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see anyone that didn’t
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And so this is all these are all
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get out to the to the Roman
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And this, I think this is
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You probably all have it in your
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And that’s great.
I didn’t, but but this is what

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Paul says.
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if you think it’s unintentional,
what man has done, it is not it

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is highly intentional.
It’s the first thing in in

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Romans chapter 1 and 23.
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they change God because if we
can remove God, then we remove

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the rule maker.
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For although they knew God, they
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thanks to him.
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thinking and they changed to
make different was what that

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word means to change from one
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lesser form.
So they remove God, the glory of

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the incorruptible God, into an
image made like corruptible,

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corruptible man, or birds or 4
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things, as we’ll see in just a
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So once the rule maker has been
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to change the rules.
So that’s the next thing Paul

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says in verse 25.
Who then changed the truth of

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God into a lion?
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creature more than the Creator
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Amen.
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word for change.
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Right?
Which we can see as the

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unrighteousness of man creeps
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Then they remove the rules and
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Well, then your morality
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There’s no more center post,
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there’s no more baseline.
And so he says in verse 26 for

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this, ’cause then God gave them
up to their vile affections, the

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verse we’ve already read.
And So what?

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What then follows from that is
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unrighteousness and ungodliness
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Gave them up to their
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their own hearts, the dishonor
of their own bodies between

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themselves.
And so we can see the

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intentional devolution of man
remove God, remove the rules and

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remove the guilt.
And now we can do whatever we

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want.
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that word autonomy.
Write this word for self law and

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you wonder why now we have self
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and and this is.
A beautiful Psalm in the sense

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of what it’s calling for.
Psalm 7.

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I’ll just read this out starting
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I’ll let the evil of the wicked
come to an end, and may you.

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Establish the righteous, the
psalmist says.

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You who will test the minds and
the hearts are righteous God.

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My shield is with God who saves
the upright and heart.

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God is a righteous God and a God
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And if a man doesn’t repent, God
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He has bent and readied his bow.
He has prepared for him his

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deadly weapons, making his
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And Brother Kitson in his class
this morning, and I’d never

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heard this before about how we
would diligently teach our

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children in Deuteronomy chapter
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And that word diligent means to
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And I was like, how did I miss
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And so it’s the same kind of
sense here, but we’ll talk

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about.
Our children in in a in a in a

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subsequent class, God willing
and that very thing about how we

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need to prepare them after the
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But God, God didn’t want the
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God.
Didn’t intend humanity to be

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this way.
He has given us free will so

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that we might make the choice to
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And unfortunately, the vast
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to go in the opposite direction
and so turn over to to Exodus

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24.
Really, this was an example for

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the teens, but I think it’s
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this shows how fast we devolve
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And so we know what’s happening
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It’s the wonderful setup before
Moses ascends the mountain and

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receives the the law from God
and, and he received also the

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pattern of the Tabernacle and
the design for the priestly

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garments and the, the cleansing
and the process and all those

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beautiful things and, and of
course the 10 commandments in X

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is 24 and three.
They start at the chapter God

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calls Moses and the elders to
the mountain and and what they

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do first is they reconfirm the
covenant with the nation is this

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is important because it’s Moses
came and and called all the

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people and said all the words of
the Lord and brought all the.

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Rules as it says in this
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And all the people answered with
one voice, and said, all the

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words that the Lord has spoken
we will do.

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And at verse 7 he took the book
of the covenant, and he

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recommitted them to the covenant
and read it in the hearing of

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the people.
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has spoken we will do, and we
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And Moses ascends the mountain,
God calls him, and he ends up

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going up just.
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And he leaves behind Aaron and
her and Abinadab and the 70

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elders.
And Moses tells them, you stay

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back and and deal with all the
issues and answer all the

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questions and stay with the
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And so this is what happens.
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says, wait here till we return.
And behold, Aaron and her will

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be with you and whoever.
Has a dispute, let him go to

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them and and Moses and Joshua go
up, and they commune with God

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and.
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thick cloud covered the base of
the mountain, then up at the top

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of the mountain, as if to say
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It says in the glory of the Lord
was like a devouring fire on the

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top of the mountain.
It says in verse 17 inside of

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all the people, Moses was on the
mountain for 40 days and 40

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nights and so we understand the
backdrop.

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They have committed to the to
the rules of God.

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They’ve recommitted to the
covenant of God.

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They said we will obey
everything.

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Moses goes up to the mount and
God has manifest for all of them

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to see in the sight of all the
people and Moses is on the

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mountain for 40 days and he
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All of these wonderful things
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And in those. 40 days him and
Joshua would have been writing

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these things down and
understanding them, committing

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them to memory.
These were this was the pattern

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of worship whereby the nation of
Israel was to approach their

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God.
And in Exodus 31 and 18, he gave

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to Moses, when he had finished
speaking unto him in Mount

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Sinai, the 2 tablets of the
testimony, the tablets of the

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stone written with the finger of
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It’s just it is a beautiful
thing when Moses is on the

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mountain with God.
But then chapter 32 and verse

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one, when the people saw that
Moses had delayed 40 days, came

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down from the mountain, the
people gathered themselves

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together to Aaron and said unto
him, Up make us gods, who shall

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go before us, for this Moses,
the man who brought us out of

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the land of Egypt only 40 days.
Ago.

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We don’t know what’s become of
him.

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So they’ve removed God.
God’s out of the picture.

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They can’t see him.
They removed the authority

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figure of God, which was Moses,
and they gave Aaron their gold,

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and he fashioned for them a
golden calf.

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These are your gods, O Israel,
who brought you out of the land

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of Egypt.
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when Aaron saw this, he built an
altar before it and God and

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Aaron made a proclamation, even
said tomorrow we’ll have a

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feast.
And so within 24 hours they

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removed God, they removed the
rules that they just re covenant

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to and their morality goes out
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And when Moses and Joshua come
down from the mountain, they,

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they saw that the people had
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They were, they were naked, they
were dancing, they were

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reveling.
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enemies of God that Moses stood
at the gate of the camp and he

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said, Who is on the Lord’s side?
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calling out, of course, of the
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He said, who’s on the Lord’s
side?

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Come with me.
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their swords and they went to
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And unfortunately, what happens,
very sadly, was the judgement of

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God on those people who had cast
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And the Lord destroyed those who
are wicked with the sword of the

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sons of Levi.
This is the result of removing

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God from our world, of removing
God from our Society, of

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removing God from our family,
from our ecclesia, from our own

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minds.
But we were without excuse

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because we know what happens
when God is not present and we

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see it everywhere in the world.
So The thing is, brothers and

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sisters, is we too are without
excuse.

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We know all of these things.
We’ve been given all of these

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examples.
The end of of chapter 1 of

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Romans and verse 32 says, though
they know God’s righteous

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decree, that those who practice
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They not only do them, but they
give approval to those who

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practice them.
And it’s like when we read about

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the nation of Israel and all the
things that they did wrong, it’s

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like, Oh, we’re not like that.
And when we think about the

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disciples, you know, and the
disciples just couldn’t

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understand.
I, I remember growing up, it’s

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like, Oh, I, I would have known
that.

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Like we, we, we tend to set
aside some of these examples

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that God has given us and said,
we’re, we’re not like that.

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We’ll never make that mistake.
But the the interesting thing is

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what Paul says in verse 32 when
he says that we give approval,

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the word in the Greek means to
associate with, to have

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companionship with.
It’s not like we’re standing

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afar off.
We’re saying, ah, you know, I

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don’t do that or I don’t do
that.

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The problem is president and
sisters, that even in our daily

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lives, we tend to associate with
and have companionship with

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people who are ungodly.
And this is one of the questions

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that came out at the end.
We did a little workshop with

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the young people at the end,
which was I think was really

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great because their answers were
phenomenal, you know, And one of

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the things was how difficult it
is to separate from somebody

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that you’ve grown up with in the
world or that you have a fond

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association with in the truth.
And this is not just an issue

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with young people.
This I think is a bigger issue

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with us older people.
We tend to hang on to those

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relationships.
Marnie and I have done a number

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of, of have had a number of
classes with, with couples

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getting married.
And one of the things we always

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bring up is what are you going
to do with the people you

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associate with in the world?
What’s going to happen with

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those relationships?
As sad as it is, you know, we

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have to sever those
relationships.

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Otherwise we stay in association
with them.

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We have companionship with them.
And before you know it, it leads

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to justification of the things
that they’re doing.

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How many people in the time of
Moses with the golden calf stood

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by and said, that’s amazing,
right?

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And didn’t do anything about it
and didn’t stand up for truth?

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Romans chapter 2 and four, let’s
just turn that up because we

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have, we have a decision to make
when these things happen.

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And as I said, we can, we can
never look at any scripture and

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think, oh, that’s not for me.
I think Romans chapter 1 and 2

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is absolutely for us as
believers.

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Romans chapter 2 and verse 4
Speaking of the mercy of God and

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what it’s intended to do says or
do you presume on the riches of

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His kindness and forbearance and
patience, not knowing that God’s

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kindness is meant to lead you to
repentance, But because of your

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heart and impedance and heart,
you are storing up wrath for

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yourself on the day of wrath
when God’s righteous judgment

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will be revealed and He will
render to each one according to

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His works.
And So what Paul is presenting

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to us here are two choices 2
responses that we need to make

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when we identify and understand
the things that are happening in

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the world.
The first response is verse 7 to

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those who by patience and well
doing seek for glory and honor

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and immortality.
He will give eternal life.

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And the other direction,
thinking about Moses who said

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you have to pick a side.
It’s for those who are self

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seeking and do not obey the
truth but obey unrighteousness.

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There will be wrath and fury.
There’ll be tribulation and

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distress for every human being
who does evil, but glory and

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honor and peace for everyone who
does good.

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One of the questions that was
asked, which I thought was

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great, is.
How do you know when to cut

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somebody off?
How do you know when that

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friendship has reached the point
of no return?

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That’s hard because we think we
can save.

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People.
Right.

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We think if that our association
will somehow sanctify these

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people.
And I’m not saying it doesn’t

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happen.
I’m not saying it it shouldn’t

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00:26:53,800 –> 00:26:56,160
happen and I am saying it does
happen.

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People come into the.
Truth because of association

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with those in in in Christ.
The problem is we have to know

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specifically when we start to
veer off in their direction.

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And as soon as that happens and
we realize.

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That we can no longer stay on
the straight and narrow path.

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That’s when we have to sever
that relationship.

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And that was a comment that came
up from the young people is that

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that’s a really hard thing to
define.

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Think of how difficult it is for
us and all of our additional

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justifications.
So, so so, So what are we?

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Doing Do we?
Expect that we can rewrite all

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the principles of God that that
deem us righteous and then

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change them.
Do we think we can modify?

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00:27:34,240 –> 00:27:38,000
Do you think we can accommodate
the truth, hoping and thinking

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00:27:38,000 –> 00:27:40,800
that maybe this problem will go
away or this person will change,

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00:27:40,800 –> 00:27:44,240
or, you know, somehow we will be
able to resolve that conflict

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00:27:44,240 –> 00:27:47,920
Instead of standing up for truth
and saying, I can no longer

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tolerate this issue because we,
we, we think things like, well,

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maybe.
And I’ve heard that I have.

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Literally heard this in the
truth.

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You know, Sean, maybe.
All of God’s laws are not right.

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You know, maybe God is not.
Aware of the complexity of the

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social order today, you know,
and brother Mark Hunter said to

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me, and I’m going to like, I’m
super bad at remembering stuff,

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00:28:19,640 –> 00:28:21,400
so I’m going to like, really
badly paraphrases.

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And he heard this from somebody
else.

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00:28:23,240 –> 00:28:24,080
Like isn’t.
It, he said.

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00:28:24,080 –> 00:28:30,480
Isn’t it funny?
That all of the principles and

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00:28:30,480 –> 00:28:35,320
the doctrines that we’re told we
now have wrong just seemed to

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00:28:35,320 –> 00:28:41,200
align with the new social order.
And when he said funny, he

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00:28:41,200 –> 00:28:44,680
didn’t mean funny, he meant
like.

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00:28:44,680 –> 00:28:48,760
Sad that all the things that
were challenging today in the

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00:28:48,760 –> 00:28:52,440
truth, in our cliches, in our
families, just happened to align

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00:28:52,560 –> 00:28:54,920
with all the pressures of the
world that are coming at us.

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It’s, it’s uncanny.
And, and this is also why I

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think God is so merciful to us.
It’s, it’s not like it’s

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difficult to sort this out, but
if we have the mind of the

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truth, we will.
And if we’re tainted by the

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darkness of the world, then we
won’t.

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00:29:11,320 –> 00:29:14,800
And that is, that’s the fine
line that we walk.

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Some of the things that I’ve
heard in the ecclesial world are

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00:29:20,240 –> 00:29:29,160
actually frightening.
Now here’s here’s one I’ve heard

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00:29:29,160 –> 00:29:33,680
brothers and sisters now not
using the term husband and wife.

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They refer them as partner and
ask, well, why?

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00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:42,760
Well, because, you know, at
work, that’s kind of.

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00:29:43,240 –> 00:29:47,760
You know those words, husband
and wife, they’re violent

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00:29:48,920 –> 00:29:51,240
because if you’re not a husband
or wife and then you’re

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excluded.
So we just use partner because

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00:29:53,720 –> 00:29:56,240
it’s, it’s representative.
Every anybody can have a

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partner.
Well, it’s not scripturally

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00:29:59,720 –> 00:30:03,160
representative of the
relationship between man and

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00:30:03,160 –> 00:30:04,800
woman.
And it’s not only that, but but

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you’ll notice that there this is
in Canada.

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I think the US is thankfully a
little bit further behind on

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00:30:10,400 –> 00:30:13,240
this.
They’re scrubbing terms from

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00:30:13,520 –> 00:30:17,520
textbooks in school.
Like husband, wife, brother,

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00:30:17,680 –> 00:30:21,240
sister, mother, father.
They’re scrubbing those all out

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00:30:21,240 –> 00:30:24,960
and using these sort of neutral,
ambiguous terms because, well,

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00:30:25,080 –> 00:30:26,920
not everybody’s a brother.
Not everybody.

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Can be a mother, right?
Not, not everybody can be a

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00:30:29,480 –> 00:30:30,880
father.
Oh, that’s unfair.

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00:30:32,280 –> 00:30:34,520
And we, we talked about this.
I think it was a breakfast or

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00:30:34,520 –> 00:30:38,040
dinner.
I I forget about how illogical

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00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:40,400
some of these things actually
are.

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00:30:41,400 –> 00:30:43,920
And we’ll, we’ll, we’ll dive
into a few of those, God

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00:30:43,920 –> 00:30:45,360
willing, in the next couple of
days.

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00:30:45,360 –> 00:30:48,960
I just, you know, you know,
what’s happening in society and,

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00:30:48,960 –> 00:30:52,240
and literature in school and,
and, and the curriculum is, is

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00:30:52,240 –> 00:30:54,800
creeping into our ecclesias
that, that we could actually

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00:30:54,800 –> 00:30:57,280
even think that that’s OK to
change that term.

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00:30:57,360 –> 00:30:59,960
It’s just a word, right?
It’s just the word, but it’s not

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00:30:59,960 –> 00:31:03,800
just the word.
It’s a spiritual concept that

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00:31:03,800 –> 00:31:07,280
God gave us that we would be one
man and one woman and we would

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00:31:07,280 –> 00:31:10,080
form the ecclesia of God on that
basis.

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00:31:12,720 –> 00:31:17,880
Now we know that on the extreme
side of things, there are

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cliches that have already
completely capitulated to

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00:31:23,480 –> 00:31:25,640
worldly thinking and practice.
This is not something we talked

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00:31:25,640 –> 00:31:28,360
about with the young people that
allow alternative lifestyles

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00:31:28,720 –> 00:31:32,720
that have already transitioned.
All of the biblical roles for

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00:31:32,720 –> 00:31:34,120
men and women turn them upside
down.

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00:31:34,520 –> 00:31:38,880
They they promote alternate
explanations for shocking acts

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00:31:38,880 –> 00:31:42,560
of evil.
Here’s 1A Bible class on

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00:31:42,560 –> 00:31:45,680
homosexuality using Sodom and
Gomorrah.

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You know why God destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah was because they

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weren’t hospitable to Lot’s
friends.

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That’s the explanation.
And in the New Testament, when

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00:31:55,200 –> 00:31:58,560
Paul talks about it and condemns
it, what Paul really meant was,

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00:31:58,560 –> 00:32:02,400
well, only if it’s idolatrous or
only if it’s in fornication.

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But a loving relationship, a
loving LGBTQ relationship, well,

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00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,480
that is acceptable by God.
That’s a Bible class that you

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00:32:08,480 –> 00:32:10,840
can download from a
Christadelphian ecclesia right

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00:32:10,840 –> 00:32:12,040
now.
I believe it’s still there

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00:32:12,040 –> 00:32:15,320
online.
So you have ecclesias that are

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00:32:15,320 –> 00:32:20,600
already a reimagining God’s
truth and reprinting it in a way

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00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:27,120
that is completely ungodly, you
know?

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00:32:28,440 –> 00:32:33,760
It’s sad because the other
impact that we have is with our

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00:32:33,760 –> 00:32:38,040
extended family and I and I say
with my extended family too.

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So, so we all have family who
are not in the truth.

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00:32:41,440 –> 00:32:43,560
And sometimes we go to a family
gathering, a big dinner,

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00:32:43,560 –> 00:32:46,120
something that you you have
those kind of radical members of

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00:32:46,120 –> 00:32:52,240
the family who are pro Kamala
Harris or pro Trudeau or you

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00:32:52,240 –> 00:32:53,600
know.
They’re liberal, they’re

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00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:57,040
progressive, they talk about
things like, you know, abortion

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00:32:57,040 –> 00:32:59,120
and you know, women should have
the right to do all this like.

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00:32:59,120 –> 00:33:03,040
And so, so those conversation
happen and and there are those

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00:33:03,040 –> 00:33:06,520
who who will then sit idly by
and not say anything because

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00:33:06,520 –> 00:33:07,800
they don’t want to create any
issues.

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00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:10,440
They don’t want to, they want to
rock the boat within their, the

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00:33:10,440 –> 00:33:12,360
broader family.
But all these things are heard

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00:33:12,360 –> 00:33:15,480
by their kids and other people.
And eventually you hear that

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00:33:15,480 –> 00:33:18,480
enough and you want to you want
to keep access to your

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00:33:18,560 –> 00:33:21,320
grandchildren, right?
And so.

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00:33:22,440 –> 00:33:23,640
You kind of just go along with
it.

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00:33:26,640 –> 00:33:29,840
It’s a good thing Marty’s not
here because but I’ll say this

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00:33:29,840 –> 00:33:31,280
while she’s not here, and so
don’t tell her.

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00:33:32,440 –> 00:33:34,920
And I’m not talking about.
Political ideology.

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00:33:35,920 –> 00:33:41,280
But as believers in Christ, we
should be fundamentally

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00:33:41,520 –> 00:33:46,120
conservative, conservative,
small C conservative in our

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00:33:46,120 –> 00:33:49,640
outlook on life.
We believe in the traditional

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00:33:49,640 –> 00:33:52,120
family.
We believe in traditional roles,

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00:33:52,400 –> 00:33:54,320
we believe in God’s presence in
our life.

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00:33:54,520 –> 00:33:57,520
We believe in obedience and
accountability and being

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00:33:57,520 –> 00:33:59,560
governed not by self but by
God’s law.

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00:33:59,560 –> 00:34:01,560
So those are all conservative
values.

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00:34:02,320 –> 00:34:07,320
And I, I, I, I, I, I think the
problem is, is that we are in

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00:34:07,320 –> 00:34:12,560
some ways and in some places
turning left and becoming

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00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:20,800
progressively liberal.
It says in Acts 20, the apostle

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00:34:20,800 –> 00:34:23,199
Paul, pay careful attention
yourselves into all the flock of

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00:34:23,199 –> 00:34:25,760
which the Holy Spirit has made
you overseers, to care for the

607
00:34:25,760 –> 00:34:27,639
ecclesia of God, which he
obtained with his own blood.

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00:34:28,600 –> 00:34:38,159
I know that after my departure,
fierce wolves will come in among

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00:34:38,159 –> 00:34:42,400
you, not sparing the flock.
And from among your own selves

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00:34:42,920 –> 00:34:46,320
will arise men speaking twisted
things to draw away disciples

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00:34:46,320 –> 00:34:49,280
after them.
And this, this, this is actually

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00:34:49,280 –> 00:34:52,679
happening, Brothers and sisters,
it’s happening.

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00:34:52,679 –> 00:34:55,880
It’s happening a lot.
It’s happening, I think, more

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00:34:55,880 –> 00:34:59,200
than you think it’s happening.
Even in a.

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00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:01,720
Conservative ecclesia, you go on
and ask them, you know, have you

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00:35:01,720 –> 00:35:03,080
listened to this certain
brothers class?

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00:35:03,080 –> 00:35:05,040
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen to that class.

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00:35:05,040 –> 00:35:09,080
It’s, it’s great.
I’m like, I’m not going to say

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00:35:09,080 –> 00:35:10,200
who it is.
If you want to know, I’ll tell

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00:35:10,200 –> 00:35:13,040
you after.
But it’s, it’s not great.

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00:35:13,040 –> 00:35:15,720
I’ll tell you it’s not great.
And and it’s and it’s ungodly

622
00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:19,280
and it’s unscriptural.
The apostle Paul says in Romans

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00:35:19,280 –> 00:35:20,960
Chapter 9, verse 20.
But who are you?

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00:35:22,560 –> 00:35:26,400
O men, answer back to God.
Well, what does molded say to

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00:35:26,400 –> 00:35:27,760
its molder?
Why have you made me?

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00:35:27,760 –> 00:35:31,440
Thus has the Potter no right
over the clay, to make out of

627
00:35:31,440 –> 00:35:33,960
the same lump 1 vessel for
honor, and one vessel for

628
00:35:33,960 –> 00:35:36,520
dishonorable use.
And so God will determine what

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He will do with those people.
He has chosen to be in a

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00:35:42,080 –> 00:35:45,600
position of those who are
honorable and those who are

631
00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:48,200
dishonorable.
And we have to decide and judge

632
00:35:48,360 –> 00:35:53,200
which ones those are.
And so how else are we without

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00:35:53,200 –> 00:35:56,800
excuse?
We have been given by God the

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00:35:56,800 –> 00:36:00,880
ability to discern things
spiritually and scripturally.

635
00:36:01,640 –> 00:36:03,520
We quoted this yesterday in
Colossians 2 and 8.

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00:36:03,520 –> 00:36:05,560
See to that no one takes you
captive through hollow and

637
00:36:05,560 –> 00:36:08,520
deceptive philosophy which
depend on human, human

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00:36:08,520 –> 00:36:11,680
tradition.
We must test the spirits that

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00:36:11,680 –> 00:36:16,040
they be of God.
And you know, we have to know we

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00:36:16,040 –> 00:36:17,520
will be persecuted.
We will feel pressure.

641
00:36:17,520 –> 00:36:19,160
I asked the teens.
I said, do you feel the pressure

642
00:36:19,160 –> 00:36:22,080
to conform to society?
And a lot of hands went up.

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00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:26,920
A lot of hands went up.
I feel pressured by society.

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00:36:28,240 –> 00:36:31,160
Second Timothy 3 and 12 says, in
fact, everyone who wants to live

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00:36:31,160 –> 00:36:33,760
a godly life in Christ will be
persecuted, while evildoers and

646
00:36:33,760 –> 00:36:35,840
impostors will go from bad to
worse, deceiving and being

647
00:36:35,840 –> 00:36:37,360
deceived.
See, here’s this is exactly

648
00:36:37,360 –> 00:36:39,960
what’s happening.
If you’re a Christian, if you’re

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00:36:39,960 –> 00:36:43,800
a God fearing Christian and you,
you, you live your life on godly

650
00:36:43,800 –> 00:36:46,320
principles, you will be
condemned for doing that.

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00:36:46,680 –> 00:36:48,920
That’s what’s that’s what’s
happening in today’s society.

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00:36:49,320 –> 00:36:52,880
But those who are wantonly
falling off of after their own

653
00:36:52,880 –> 00:36:54,920
sin, they’re actually
celebrated.

654
00:36:56,480 –> 00:36:58,400
And all you have to do is just
look into the world and you will

655
00:36:58,400 –> 00:37:02,440
see that.
And so we’ve been warned,

656
00:37:02,440 –> 00:37:04,520
brethren and sisters, about all
of these things.

657
00:37:04,520 –> 00:37:05,760
What else have we been warned
about?

658
00:37:06,280 –> 00:37:09,720
Well, we’ve been warned about
the difference between false

659
00:37:09,720 –> 00:37:12,840
teachers and doctrines.
And we if we know the truth, we

660
00:37:12,840 –> 00:37:15,800
can apply that filter.
Peter says in second Peter

661
00:37:15,800 –> 00:37:17,160
chapter 2.
But there’ll also be false

662
00:37:17,160 –> 00:37:19,480
prophets among you, just as
there were false teachers among

663
00:37:19,480 –> 00:37:21,320
you.
They will secretly introduce

664
00:37:21,320 –> 00:37:23,880
destructive heresies, even
denying the sovereign Lord who

665
00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:26,640
brought them, who bought them,
bringing swift destruction on

666
00:37:26,640 –> 00:37:28,520
themselves.
And many will follow after their

667
00:37:28,520 –> 00:37:32,640
depraved conduct and we’ll bring
the way of truth into disrepute.

668
00:37:32,640 –> 00:37:36,000
And so we have a responsibility
to uphold biblical doctrine, and

669
00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:38,840
that’s it’s not always an easy
thing and sometimes that creates

670
00:37:38,840 –> 00:37:40,600
conflict.
And so we have to do it in the

671
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:43,640
the right and appropriate way.
But when we see something in our

672
00:37:43,640 –> 00:37:48,960
ecclesia entering in, we cannot.
Wait, we have to deal with it.

673
00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:56,720
It says in first Timothy chapter
4, the spirit clearly says that

674
00:37:56,720 –> 00:37:59,080
in later time, some will
abandoned the faith and follow

675
00:37:59,080 –> 00:38:01,440
deceiving spirits and things
that are taught by demons.

676
00:38:01,440 –> 00:38:05,080
And, and we have to we have to
catch them before they’re gone,

677
00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:08,680
before these things undermine
other people, undermine our

678
00:38:08,680 –> 00:38:14,480
cliches, undermine families.
How else are we without excuse?

679
00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:19,320
Well, we, we know about the
moral decay and lawlessness that

680
00:38:19,320 –> 00:38:24,000
is happening now.
I don’t know how many of you, so

681
00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:26,720
I got to be careful.
I’ll condemn myself here, but I

682
00:38:26,720 –> 00:38:29,000
kind of been watching the news
while I’ve been up here.

683
00:38:30,200 –> 00:38:32,920
I know I shouldn’t, but a lot of
things are going on in Israel

684
00:38:32,920 –> 00:38:37,120
right now, including some
incursions by Hezbollah just

685
00:38:37,480 –> 00:38:42,080
just this morning and, and, and,
and, and I get tired of looking

686
00:38:42,080 –> 00:38:44,840
at the news because it’s, it’s
literally all bad.

687
00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:48,520
It’s just all lawlessness.
It’s, it’s mobs of hundreds of

688
00:38:48,520 –> 00:38:52,280
people running into, you know,
shopping malls and just stealing

689
00:38:52,280 –> 00:38:54,560
everything.
And, you know, when they, when

690
00:38:54,560 –> 00:38:57,440
they finally catch some of these
people and they interview them,

691
00:38:58,200 –> 00:39:02,040
their answers are, are crazy.
They don’t.

692
00:39:02,640 –> 00:39:05,040
Think that what they’re doing is
wrong.

693
00:39:05,520 –> 00:39:10,640
Many of them they don’t think Do
you know that the number one,

694
00:39:11,600 –> 00:39:17,080
the number one crime for 18 to
28 year olds is.

695
00:39:19,320 –> 00:39:25,920
Now is cheating on their taxes
and and they they justify it

696
00:39:26,080 –> 00:39:31,120
because they say things like the
government takes too much or I

697
00:39:31,120 –> 00:39:33,720
deserve to have.
More or they don’t understand my

698
00:39:33,720 –> 00:39:38,280
situation like so we’re changing
morals to justify doing things,

699
00:39:38,280 –> 00:39:40,360
just standard things.
And so we know these things are

700
00:39:40,360 –> 00:39:41,320
happening.
We know they’re out there.

701
00:39:41,320 –> 00:39:44,320
But mark this the apostle Paul
says to Timothy, there will be

702
00:39:44,320 –> 00:39:46,960
terrible times in the last days.
People be lovers of themselves,

703
00:39:46,960 –> 00:39:50,240
lovers of money, boastful,
proud, abusive, disobedient to

704
00:39:50,240 –> 00:39:52,680
their parents, ungrateful,
unholy, without love,

705
00:39:52,680 –> 00:39:55,760
unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers

706
00:39:56,040 –> 00:39:59,920
of good, treacherous, rash,
conceited, lovers of pleasure

707
00:39:59,920 –> 00:40:01,840
rather than lovers of God,
having a form of guideless, but

708
00:40:01,840 –> 00:40:04,120
denying its power.
Have nothing to do with these

709
00:40:04,120 –> 00:40:08,880
people and and I know that these
first few classes are very dark

710
00:40:08,880 –> 00:40:11,440
and they’re very negative and I
apologize for that.

711
00:40:12,720 –> 00:40:16,760
It is the reality of what we
have to deal with every day.

712
00:40:17,240 –> 00:40:18,960
And so we’ve been warned we’re
without excuse.

713
00:40:19,080 –> 00:40:22,880
We know about the moral decay
and the lawlessness and we know

714
00:40:22,880 –> 00:40:25,760
what the Lord Jesus Christ said.
And so here’s I take this as

715
00:40:25,760 –> 00:40:29,840
positive, and I’ve said this to
a few of you here.

716
00:40:29,840 –> 00:40:34,320
It’s like God is throwing
everything on the table for us.

717
00:40:36,360 –> 00:40:38,880
You know, we just looked at the
at Hezekiah’s boulet.

718
00:40:38,880 –> 00:40:43,520
That was like even little things
like that I find just fantastic.

719
00:40:43,520 –> 00:40:46,160
It’s like God, let’s let them
have that.

720
00:40:46,800 –> 00:40:48,680
But he’s throwing everything on
the table for us.

721
00:40:48,680 –> 00:40:51,520
He’s given us everything in
terms of the moral decline in

722
00:40:51,520 –> 00:40:54,280
society, everything that the
Lord Jesus Christ said in

723
00:40:54,280 –> 00:40:57,080
Matthew 24 and Luke 21.
It’s happening now.

724
00:40:57,080 –> 00:40:59,280
Like all of it, like literally
all of it.

725
00:41:00,040 –> 00:41:01,880
And you’ll hear of wars, rumors
of wars.

726
00:41:01,880 –> 00:41:03,480
Check.
See, we not be alarmed.

727
00:41:03,560 –> 00:41:06,280
This will take place at the end
as nation will be against

728
00:41:06,280 –> 00:41:09,600
nation, yes, Kingdom, against
famines, earthquakes in various

729
00:41:09,600 –> 00:41:12,280
places, lawlessness, all these
things, they’re just literally

730
00:41:12,280 –> 00:41:14,920
happening.
And on top of that, God is

731
00:41:14,920 –> 00:41:17,720
giving us incredible prophetic
results.

732
00:41:19,120 –> 00:41:23,720
So we know about, you know,
Psalm 83 and Hezbollah and in

733
00:41:23,720 –> 00:41:25,960
Gaza, all those things are
literally happening right now.

734
00:41:25,960 –> 00:41:29,400
And I know it’s been going on
for a year, but we we’d lose

735
00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:34,520
track of how prophetically
important this is and, and how

736
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:38,160
that, you know, for a long time
now Russia’s been aligned with

737
00:41:38,160 –> 00:41:39,120
Iran and we’re.
Kind of like.

738
00:41:39,520 –> 00:41:41,440
Give me something new.
Well, now Russia’s aligned with

739
00:41:41,440 –> 00:41:45,480
Sudan, Ethiopia, so all those
powers are coming together and,

740
00:41:45,480 –> 00:41:48,280
and now we’ve got the threat of
Iran attacking Israel again.

741
00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:52,280
We’ve got the, the US just sent
a nuclear submarine with nuclear

742
00:41:52,280 –> 00:41:54,480
warheads is now heading now to
the Middle East.

743
00:41:54,680 –> 00:41:58,840
They’ve got 3 battle groups, 3
aircraft carriers, hundreds of

744
00:41:58,840 –> 00:41:59,920
jets and planes.
Why?

745
00:42:00,080 –> 00:42:01,880
the US knows something’s going
to happen.

746
00:42:03,560 –> 00:42:08,000
The Ukraine you probably saw
yesterday or the day before

747
00:42:08,880 –> 00:42:12,680
invaded Russia.
They’re in Russia with one or

748
00:42:12,680 –> 00:42:14,600
two battalions and they’re
actually making headway.

749
00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,320
They’re like 40 kilometers
inside that eastern region of

750
00:42:18,320 –> 00:42:21,040
Russia.
Like they’re in Ukraine’s gone

751
00:42:21,040 –> 00:42:22,680
in.
This is the land of Mego that’s

752
00:42:22,680 –> 00:42:26,280
being attacked back and forth.
Like God couldn’t give us

753
00:42:26,320 –> 00:42:33,560
anything else to remind us that
he is in control.

754
00:42:35,680 –> 00:42:39,920
All these things Christ says in
Matthew 24.

755
00:42:42,520 –> 00:42:46,440
Are just the beginning of birth
pangs, and they will deliver you

756
00:42:46,440 –> 00:42:49,080
up to tribulation and put you to
death, and you’ll be hated by

757
00:42:49,080 –> 00:42:51,520
all nations for my name’s sake.
And then many will fall away and

758
00:42:51,520 –> 00:42:53,080
betray one another and hate one
another.

759
00:42:53,080 –> 00:42:55,280
Many false prophets will arise
and lead many astray.

760
00:42:55,280 –> 00:42:58,880
And because lawlessness will be
increased, the love of many will

761
00:42:58,880 –> 00:43:04,560
grow old.
What is happening in the world

762
00:43:04,560 –> 00:43:08,600
is frightening, brothers and
sisters, but the beautiful part

763
00:43:08,600 –> 00:43:15,080
of all of this is God has told
us every single one of these

764
00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:19,600
things before that happened, and
that leaves us without excuse.

765
00:43:21,080 –> 00:43:23,240
And the other beautiful thing is
what the Lord Jesus Christ says

766
00:43:23,240 –> 00:43:27,600
it in Matthew 24 and 13.
But the one who endures to the

767
00:43:27,600 –> 00:43:30,120
end will be saved, and this
gospel.

768
00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:33,160
Of the Kingdom will be
proclaimed throughout the world

769
00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:35,520
as a testimony to all nations,
and then the end will come.

770
00:43:35,640 –> 00:43:39,400
Do you know that the gospel was
not possible?

771
00:43:40,240 –> 00:43:44,440
To proclaim throughout the
entire world until about 40

772
00:43:44,440 –> 00:43:50,000
years ago with the advent of the
Internet and technology.

773
00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:51,680
But we have to be ready,
brothers and sisters.

774
00:43:51,680 –> 00:43:53,760
We have to be ready.
And there’s hope in the last

775
00:43:53,760 –> 00:43:56,000
days.
We have God on our side.

776
00:43:56,760 –> 00:43:59,960
The writer of the Hebrews says
God has said never will I leave

777
00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:00,840
you?
Never.

778
00:44:00,840 –> 00:44:05,160
Will I forsake you?
And Paul says to Timothy, this

779
00:44:05,160 –> 00:44:09,600
young man Timothy, who is an
example for us of, of faith and

780
00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:14,240
courage in the face of, of
unbelievable things in his life,

781
00:44:14,240 –> 00:44:16,840
says, now there is in store for
me a crown of righteousness

782
00:44:16,840 –> 00:44:19,520
which the Lord, the righteous
judge, will award.

783
00:44:19,520 –> 00:44:22,880
To me, on that day, and not only
to me, but also those who have

784
00:44:22,880 –> 00:44:30,920
longed for his appearing.
I’ve had many great

785
00:44:30,920 –> 00:44:35,120
conversations so far about this
series and I do appreciate it.

786
00:44:35,120 –> 00:44:38,840
I I’ve had some corrections and
I’ve had some great verses that

787
00:44:38,840 –> 00:44:40,960
I’ve missed.
And it’s it’s, it’s this is what

788
00:44:40,960 –> 00:44:42,080
we’re here for.
We’re here to learn.

789
00:44:43,600 –> 00:44:48,280
And brother Ken Styles.
Has mentioned to me a couple

790
00:44:48,280 –> 00:44:51,400
times and did again last night
that that really what we also

791
00:44:51,400 –> 00:44:53,760
need to talk about and it’s not
fair to throw it in here because

792
00:44:53,760 –> 00:44:55,920
we don’t have time.
I don’t want to be overtime

793
00:44:55,920 –> 00:44:57,720
again.
How do we got till 10 after?

794
00:44:58,360 –> 00:45:03,320
OK, We have a responsibility
within our, within our colleges

795
00:45:03,320 –> 00:45:06,320
to uphold biblical truth.
And we, we need to build a model

796
00:45:06,920 –> 00:45:10,240
that helps those that are
struggling to deal with these

797
00:45:10,240 –> 00:45:14,040
issues to identify them, to
understand them and create a

798
00:45:14,040 –> 00:45:17,720
biblical foundation for us to
deal with them and refute them.

799
00:45:19,640 –> 00:45:23,600
And so we need to, we need to
get back to clear biblical

800
00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:26,800
teaching.
And not only that, but to

801
00:45:27,160 –> 00:45:31,680
showcase clear biblical teaching
as as it relates to the issues

802
00:45:31,680 –> 00:45:34,400
we currently have.
And that, now that’s a tough

803
00:45:34,400 –> 00:45:36,440
thing to do.
And we started to do that two

804
00:45:36,440 –> 00:45:39,800
years ago.
We, we initially, I, I spoke

805
00:45:39,800 –> 00:45:42,320
with many brethren that are here
over the last couple of years

806
00:45:42,320 –> 00:45:44,280
and just ask things like, hey,
what’s going on in your

807
00:45:44,280 –> 00:45:45,440
ecclesia?
Do you, are you having this

808
00:45:45,440 –> 00:45:48,760
issue, having that issue?
And oftentimes the answer was,

809
00:45:49,080 –> 00:45:51,800
yeah, we do have the issue or
no, we don’t have that issue.

810
00:45:51,800 –> 00:45:53,640
And then like a month later, I
get an e-mail.

811
00:45:53,640 –> 00:45:55,000
Yeah, we actually do have this
issue.

812
00:45:55,440 –> 00:45:59,880
And so we put together a
regional, a set of meetings and

813
00:45:59,880 –> 00:46:02,920
in the end we had 13 ecclesias
in the, in the Pacific Northwest

814
00:46:02,920 –> 00:46:05,800
that the gathered, I think is
Dan here.

815
00:46:05,800 –> 00:46:07,600
Do we have two or three
meetings?

816
00:46:07,600 –> 00:46:11,800
I can’t remember to talk about
these issues, the, the, the

817
00:46:11,800 –> 00:46:15,000
postmodern agenda, how it’s
affecting our Clesia and, and

818
00:46:15,000 –> 00:46:17,640
the fact that that these
doctrines are in our clesions.

819
00:46:17,640 –> 00:46:18,680
How do we deal with them now?
We haven’t.

820
00:46:18,920 –> 00:46:20,120
We need to.
We need to take.

821
00:46:20,120 –> 00:46:23,720
That to a place where we can
kind of formalize a process to

822
00:46:23,720 –> 00:46:26,960
train and to teach and to help
understand and and and and and

823
00:46:26,960 –> 00:46:29,520
address and expose the issues of
the day.

824
00:46:29,560 –> 00:46:32,800
We need to create a safe place
for young people to come in and

825
00:46:32,800 –> 00:46:35,840
ask questions who are concerned
or don’t know which way to turn.

826
00:46:35,840 –> 00:46:38,240
It’s like what I don’t
understand, you know, how this

827
00:46:38,360 –> 00:46:43,120
how this can be?
We need to be.

828
00:46:43,120 –> 00:46:47,680
Shepherds and examples of our
ecclesial flock to provide a way

829
00:46:49,160 –> 00:46:55,400
where we can understand what
God’s truth is and deal with the

830
00:46:55,400 –> 00:46:57,320
danger of these new human
philosophies.

831
00:46:58,840 –> 00:47:01,040
We have a responsibility,
brethren, assist us to do that

832
00:47:01,040 –> 00:47:05,600
in our families, to do that in
our cliches, to uphold truth and

833
00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:11,760
expose this deception.
As it says in Jude, we need to

834
00:47:11,920 –> 00:47:19,160
earnestly contend for the faith
and in the broader community, we

835
00:47:19,160 –> 00:47:20,960
need to share the resources that
we already have.

836
00:47:20,960 –> 00:47:25,400
And we have lots of great
resources, books and and talk

837
00:47:25,400 –> 00:47:27,720
series that deal specifically
with these issues.

838
00:47:27,880 –> 00:47:29,920
And we need to create more.
We need to have more.

839
00:47:32,960 –> 00:47:36,280
I want to close with a few
things about the teens.

840
00:47:36,280 –> 00:47:41,600
I mentioned last night that they
were a great group and I sorry

841
00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:44,080
brother Peter, I think it was
you that said this.

842
00:47:44,080 –> 00:47:45,840
I’m so bad remembering what
people said.

843
00:47:47,400 –> 00:47:49,440
But I think there’s you that
said that you can you can often

844
00:47:49,440 –> 00:47:51,920
tell the spiritual state of the
parents by how the kids behave.

845
00:47:51,920 –> 00:47:52,920
Is that what you said?
Yes.

846
00:47:54,840 –> 00:47:56,040
And I never thought of it that
way.

847
00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:57,720
I always thought of it, you
know, the other way.

848
00:47:57,720 –> 00:47:58,920
And it is true the other way
too.

849
00:47:58,920 –> 00:48:01,000
But but when he said that, I
thought, you know, that’s that’s

850
00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:03,200
right.
You can tell the spiritual state

851
00:48:03,200 –> 00:48:06,600
of the parents oftentimes by how
the children conduct themselves.

852
00:48:07,120 –> 00:48:10,840
Especially in a place like this.
And I will tell you that the

853
00:48:10,840 –> 00:48:15,640
teens in this camp conduct.
Themselves very, very well.

854
00:48:16,840 –> 00:48:19,600
They know the scripture, they
understand scriptural

855
00:48:19,600 –> 00:48:23,000
principles, they can articulate
them and all it always takes a

856
00:48:23,000 –> 00:48:26,960
little bit to get teens talking
once you get them talking and

857
00:48:26,960 –> 00:48:28,240
then it’s really hard to get
them stop.

858
00:48:30,320 –> 00:48:33,520
But I just wanted to say that,
you know, we give accolades to

859
00:48:33,520 –> 00:48:36,080
the to the teens.
I want to give accolades to you

860
00:48:36,080 –> 00:48:41,000
as parents that you’re doing a
great job and we’re not perfect

861
00:48:41,000 –> 00:48:44,280
and we fail and and and and we
understand that.

862
00:48:46,840 –> 00:48:49,120
But this group of teens is
really exceptional.

863
00:48:50,280 –> 00:48:53,320
And brother Jonathan Lawrence
and I, we were talking, I think

864
00:48:53,320 –> 00:48:57,280
it was a breakfast about the
difference between, you know,

865
00:48:57,880 –> 00:49:01,360
our generation and this current
generation accepting, of course,

866
00:49:01,360 –> 00:49:04,680
the Jonathan’s 10 years younger
than me.

867
00:49:04,680 –> 00:49:08,080
Is that that when I was coming
to Bible school and Silver Star,

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right.
The precursor to this?

869
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We were doing dramatically
differently and poor things.

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And we don’t see that with this
current generation of teens.

871
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And I think that’s great.
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not sure

872
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that we figured out what it is
yet.

873
00:49:22,320 –> 00:49:26,280
But I think part of it is that
when I was growing up, I was in

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a strict household and I was,
you know, taught scriptural

875
00:49:30,200 –> 00:49:33,240
information, data, principles,
doctrines.

876
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But maybe.
Today we do a better job of

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00:49:38,120 –> 00:49:41,920
teaching application, which was
brother James Larson’s comment.

878
00:49:42,040 –> 00:49:43,760
I’m trying to remember what
everybody said.

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00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:47,680
We’re doing a better job of
right of, of taking those

880
00:49:47,680 –> 00:49:49,680
principles so that the teams can
apply them.

881
00:49:49,680 –> 00:49:53,440
And I think in this day and age,
that is so important that we do

882
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that.
You cannot always refute the

883
00:49:56,080 –> 00:49:59,600
evil just by coding a verse.
They have to have understood how

884
00:49:59,600 –> 00:50:02,600
that verse, that principle
applies in their life.

885
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Anyway, I do appreciate all the
feedback.

886
00:50:06,080 –> 00:50:07,960
I, I, I know there’s a lot of
issues.

887
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I know we’re being beat down by
the world and and and and and.

888
00:50:12,120 –> 00:50:14,480
I think what Brother Ken was
getting at is that we.

889
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Need to.
We need to.

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Treat our ecclesias as hospitals
where we can treat the sick,

891
00:50:19,240 –> 00:50:21,920
where we can bind up the broken
hearted, where we can restore

892
00:50:21,920 –> 00:50:24,240
people to spiritual health
instead of just being a place

893
00:50:24,240 –> 00:50:27,320
that we come and we do our duty
and we leave.

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00:50:28,960 –> 00:50:31,160
Isaiah 61 and one just under
score this point.

895
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The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord
is on me because the Lord has

896
00:50:33,320 –> 00:50:35,560
appointed me to proclaim good
news to the poor.

897
00:50:35,560 –> 00:50:38,960
He has sent me to bind up the
broken hearted, to proclaim

898
00:50:38,960 –> 00:50:44,000
freedom for the captives and
release from darkness for the

899
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prisoners.
We have to see our cliches in

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00:50:49,200 –> 00:50:51,040
this light, brothers and
sisters.

901
00:50:51,040 –> 00:50:53,200
We have to see our families in
this light.

902
00:50:54,880 –> 00:50:56,800
We are all trying to get to the
Kingdom together.

903
00:50:57,880 –> 00:51:01,160
We as individual lights need to
gather together to form that

904
00:51:01,160 –> 00:51:05,800
greater light, to March together
to the Kingdom as families, as a

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00:51:05,800 –> 00:51:09,880
cliches, and even as a global
community so that we can fend

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00:51:09,880 –> 00:51:14,240
off the issues of darkness.
And so as in the time of the

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flood, when when God looked down
and he saw only evil continually

908
00:51:18,280 –> 00:51:23,600
and completely, he actually saw
amongst the darkness that small

909
00:51:23,760 –> 00:51:29,400
pool of light which was Noah.
And lest we forget how important

910
00:51:29,400 –> 00:51:34,480
that light was, that God saw
grace when he saw Noah, that God

911
00:51:34,480 –> 00:51:42,440
rebuilt mankind.
On that family it pays to stand

912
00:51:42,440 –> 00:51:44,360
out as a light in this Dark
World.

913
00:51:44,360 –> 00:51:47,080
And so let us therefore,
brothers and sisters, seek to

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00:51:47,080 –> 00:51:50,280
manifest the light of God’s
truth in in in our lives every

915
00:51:50,280 –> 00:51:54,040
day that we inhabit the image by
which God has created us with

916
00:51:54,040 –> 00:51:57,480
purpose, with his attributes,
and with his character.

917
00:51:57,600 –> 00:52:01,800
So that when God looks down on
us, we might stand with courage

918
00:52:02,040 –> 00:52:06,200
as that pool of light in this
Dark World, thinking and doing

919
00:52:06,200 –> 00:52:07,520
those things that are righteous
and God.

920
00:52:07,600 –> 00:52:11,520
God’s eyes, a God who has
redeemed us from all

921
00:52:11,520 –> 00:52:18,320
unrighteousness.
Therefore, brothers and sisters,

922
00:52:18,320 –> 00:52:22,520
we are without excuse for since
the creation of the.

923
00:52:22,520 –> 00:52:26,440
World, God’s invisible
qualities, His divine power and

924
00:52:26,440 –> 00:52:30,280
nature have been clearly seen
being understood by what is

925
00:52:30,280 –> 00:52:33,800
made.
And so may we not turn a blind

926
00:52:33,800 –> 00:52:35,880
eye to the truth that is plain
before us.

927
00:52:36,120 –> 00:52:39,480
We can’t claim ignorance in the
face of some undeniable

928
00:52:39,480 –> 00:52:43,400
presence, but let us elevate God
in our lives every day.

929
00:52:43,520 –> 00:52:46,920
You know what happens when you
elevate God in your life?

930
00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:55,560
You push yourself down.
Your life becomes less important

931
00:52:55,600 –> 00:52:59,080
as God becomes more important.
I think that’s a principle that

932
00:52:59,080 –> 00:53:02,000
we have to manifest every day.
Second Peter chapter 3.

933
00:53:02,000 –> 00:53:05,080
Let’s just turn to there and
then We’re going to close almost

934
00:53:05,720 –> 00:53:13,680
perfectly on time.
Second Peter chapter 3, starting

935
00:53:13,680 –> 00:53:14,880
at verse 10.
But the day of the Lord will

936
00:53:14,880 –> 00:53:19,000
come like a thief, the heavens
will disappear like a with a

937
00:53:19,000 –> 00:53:21,400
roar, the elements will be
destroyed with fire, the earth

938
00:53:21,400 –> 00:53:24,240
and everything done, and it will
be laid bare, since everything

939
00:53:24,240 –> 00:53:30,800
will be destroyed in this way.
Brethren and sisters, what kind

940
00:53:30,800 –> 00:53:36,680
of people ought we to be?
Well, Peter tells us you ought

941
00:53:36,760 –> 00:53:40,320
to live holy and godly lives as
you look forward to the day of

942
00:53:40,320 –> 00:53:46,080
God and the speed of its coming.
Let’s make every effort,

943
00:53:46,120 –> 00:53:50,440
therefore, as he says, to be
found spotless and blameless and

944
00:53:50,440 –> 00:53:53,680
at peace with him.
And just to close with the verse

945
00:53:53,680 –> 00:53:58,320
that’s up on the screen.
We think about the inexcusable,

946
00:53:58,480 –> 00:54:01,000
irrefutable nature of God’s
presence.

947
00:54:02,360 –> 00:54:05,680
When I look to the heavens, the
psalmist says, I see the work of

948
00:54:05,680 –> 00:54:08,280
your fingers, the.
Moon and the stars which you

949
00:54:08,280 –> 00:54:12,200
have set in place, what is man
that you are mindful of him?

950
00:54:12,720 –> 00:54:15,000
The Son of man that you care for
him, yet you have made him a

951
00:54:15,000 –> 00:54:17,880
little lower than the heavenly
beings and crowned him with

952
00:54:17,880 –> 00:54:20,040
glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over

953
00:54:20,040 –> 00:54:21,960
the works of your hands.
You have put all things under

954
00:54:21,960 –> 00:54:25,280
his feet, all sheep and oxen,
also the beasts of the field and

955
00:54:25,280 –> 00:54:27,320
the birds of the heaven, and the
fish of the sea, That whoever

956
00:54:27,320 –> 00:54:29,760
passes along the paths of the
Seas.

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00:54:30,120 –> 00:54:34,640
O Lord our Lord, how majestic is
your name and all the earth.

958
00:54:37,160 –> 00:54:40,160
Let us live, live in a manner
worthy of Our Calling, Brethren

959
00:54:40,160 –> 00:54:42,520
and sisters, the calling that we
have received, knowing that the

960
00:54:42,560 –> 00:54:47,040
evidence of His Majesty leaves
us no room for excuse.

961
00:54:47,040 –> 00:54:50,040
And in this knowledge, let us
boldly proclaim His glory.

962
00:54:50,200 –> 00:54:53,120
Let us live righteously.
Let us stand firm in our faith,

963
00:54:53,160 –> 00:54:57,600
because, brethren and sisters,
we of all people are without

964
00:54:57,600 –> 00:54:58,080
excuse.