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\nthese things where people
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\nAnd these are answers that we
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\ntheir world today of like, you
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\nstill be good and all these
\ndifferent things that you’ll <\/p>\n
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\nSo you’ll see things like this <\/p>\n
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\nabout, you know, just be good
\nfor goodness sake, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t need God or.
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\nGod?
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\nAnd you know, these are things
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\nAnd so they get challenged about
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\nneed God to be good, you know,
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\nwithout God?
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\nReligion to be a good moral
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\natheists are are certainly doing
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\nexposed to this and we have to
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\nYou really need religion to
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\nCouldn’t you figure out that
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\nwhat happens is these think they
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\nteenagers.
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\ndon’t need God we can just be
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\nBut the problem is when you
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\nit sounds great as the general
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\nmorally good when it comes right
\ndown to IT. <\/p>\n
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\nPeople might be good in some
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\nWell, should we pay taxes?
\nIs, is that something? <\/p>\n
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\nIs that, is that being good?
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\nOr what about?
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\nnudity, polygamy, war and ISIS <\/p>\n
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\nand all these things.
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\nlike government decide then?
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\nkids that?
\nNo, we’re going to turn to God <\/p>\n
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\nto find out what our morality
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\nBecause who’s going to define
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\nAnd what we do is we can
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\nWay to live.
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\ngood to expose him to the idea
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\nbeing good and treating people
\nnice and all, it’s all about <\/p>\n
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\nBut we’re not living for this
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\nWe’re we’re aiming for the life
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\ncome.
\nThat’s a whole different story. <\/p>\n
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\nWe aren’t going to naturally be
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\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nOh no, His family involves
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
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\nYou look at the young people
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\nthe abuse that goes on in life <\/p>\n
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\nWho those guys are up there, but<\/p>\n
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\nI just googled some Australian
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\nSo you’ve got politics. <\/p>\n
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\nonly it’s all about now.
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\nthat are buying their votes and <\/p>\n
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\nWe are not. <\/p>\n
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\nLike that, Brothers and sisters,
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\nAnd if it takes suffering like <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at our second class. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd just remember, Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
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\nLook at what he went through. <\/p>\n
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\nwith all that kind of stuff?
\nNo, the blessing was that he <\/p>\n
340
\n00:16:33,840 –> 00:16:37,520
\nwould turn everyone away of you,
\nevery one of you away from your <\/p>\n
341
\n00:16:37,520 –> 00:16:40,640
\niniquities.
\nThere was a huge component of <\/p>\n
342
\n00:16:40,640 –> 00:16:43,600
\nthe promises to Abraham God’s
\ngoing to change your life. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:16:43,920 –> 00:16:46,920
\nHe’s willing to work with you
\nand work with your children and <\/p>\n
344
\n00:16:46,920 –> 00:16:49,600
\nGod says I’m going to take Isaac
\nand I’ll work with him. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:16:49,600 –> 00:16:52,280
\nI’m, I’m not going to do that
\nwith with with with Esau. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:16:52,280 –> 00:16:54,920
\nI’ll I’ll take or with with
\nIshmael. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:16:55,120 –> 00:16:57,840
\nI’m going to take Isaac and I’ll
\nwork with him and later on with <\/p>\n
348
\n00:16:57,840 –> 00:16:59,680
\nJacob.
\nHe says no, I’m going to take <\/p>\n
349
\n00:16:59,840 –> 00:17:01,920
\nwith Isaac is I’m going to take
\nJacob and. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:17:02,240 –> 00:17:04,720
\nI’m going to work with him and
\nI’m not going to do that with <\/p>\n
351
\n00:17:04,720 –> 00:17:08,839
\nwith Esau.
\nIt’s all about God turning us <\/p>\n
352
\n00:17:08,839 –> 00:17:11,720
\naway from our iniquities.
\nIt’s not that we’re better <\/p>\n
353
\n00:17:11,720 –> 00:17:13,599
\npeople than anybody else out
\nthere. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:17:13,920 –> 00:17:16,319
\nWe we didn’t start out better
\nthan the people in this <\/p>\n
355
\n00:17:16,319 –> 00:17:19,400
\nneighborhood out here.
\nWe we started out like Jacob. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:17:19,520 –> 00:17:23,040
\nWe started out like all the rest
\nof these Bible characters, and <\/p>\n
357
\n00:17:23,040 –> 00:17:26,720
\nGod is turning us away from our
\niniquities. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:17:27,040 –> 00:17:30,600
\nThat’s the blessing of Abraham.
\nDid you realize that is the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:17:30,600 –> 00:17:33,720
\nbasis upon which God can forgive
\nour sins. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:17:34,240 –> 00:17:36,920
\nHe doesn’t just forgive our sins
\nbecause we joined the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:17:36,920 –> 00:17:40,200
\nChristadelphians.
\nWe got baptized and we answered <\/p>\n
362
\n00:17:40,200 –> 00:17:42,840
\nall these questions in an
\ninterview and we went into the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:17:42,840 –> 00:17:45,960
\nwater and came back out.
\nWe don’t get our sins forgiven <\/p>\n
364
\n00:17:45,960 –> 00:17:48,760
\nbecause we just joined the right
\nchurch and the other people <\/p>\n
365
\n00:17:48,760 –> 00:17:51,640
\ndidn’t.
\nWe have our sins are forgiven <\/p>\n
366
\n00:17:51,640 –> 00:17:55,560
\nbecause we we have joined with
\nChrist in his death to sin. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:17:55,760 –> 00:17:59,760
\nWe want God to work on our life.
\nWe want him to to turn us away <\/p>\n
368
\n00:17:59,760 –> 00:18:02,480
\nfrom our iniquities.
\nAnd he says wow, you’ve joined <\/p>\n
369
\n00:18:02,480 –> 00:18:05,040
\nmy family.
\nThis is what my family members <\/p>\n
370
\n00:18:05,040 –> 00:18:09,320
\ndo, and now I can righteously
\nforgive your sins. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:18:09,800 –> 00:18:12,520
\nThat’s how it works, brothers
\nand sisters and and young <\/p>\n
372
\n00:18:12,520 –> 00:18:14,800
\npeople.
\nIt’s not some mystical thing. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:18:15,040 –> 00:18:19,120
\nThere’s a basis behind the
\nrighteousness of God at which he<\/p>\n
374
\n00:18:19,120 –> 00:18:23,920
\ncan forgive us, and it’s because
\nwe joined the family, really <\/p>\n
375
\n00:18:23,920 –> 00:18:27,880
\njoined the family.
\nWe want his eternal way of life.<\/p>\n
376
\n00:18:28,120 –> 00:18:30,560
\nWe love it.
\nAnd we’ll hold on to that. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:18:30,560 –> 00:18:34,560
\nNo matter what happens to us in
\nthis world, no matter how low he<\/p>\n
378
\n00:18:34,560 –> 00:18:38,000
\nbrings us, what troubles we run
\nthrough, we’re going to hold on <\/p>\n
379
\n00:18:38,000 –> 00:18:39,960
\nto that.
\nLike like Joseph did when he was<\/p>\n
380
\n00:18:39,960 –> 00:18:42,600
\nsold away to slavery.
\nHe’s out there, he’s falsely <\/p>\n
381
\n00:18:42,600 –> 00:18:46,120
\naccused, he ends up in prison.
\nHe’s holding on to the fact that<\/p>\n
382
\n00:18:46,120 –> 00:18:49,840
\nGod is righteous and I love his
\nway of life. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:18:50,040 –> 00:18:52,000
\nI’m not going to take Potiphar’s
\nwife. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:18:52,040 –> 00:18:54,440
\nI’m not going to, you know, yell
\nat these people. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:18:54,440 –> 00:18:57,160
\nI’m not going to, you know, do
\nall the things that the folks of<\/p>\n
386
\n00:18:57,160 –> 00:19:00,640
\nthis world would do.
\nI love God’s way of life. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:19:00,720 –> 00:19:02,800
\nIt’s my life.
\nThat’s what I want, no matter <\/p>\n
388
\n00:19:02,800 –> 00:19:05,520
\nwhat happens.
\nThat’s the kind of character <\/p>\n
389
\n00:19:05,520 –> 00:19:07,360
\nthat God can establish in
\npeople. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:19:07,560 –> 00:19:11,200
\nHe can change how we live, and
\nthat’s what he set out to do. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:19:11,200 –> 00:19:15,160
\nAs Peter says in Acts 3, the
\nreal blessing of Abraham was <\/p>\n
392
\n00:19:15,160 –> 00:19:17,840
\nthat he will turn.
\nUs away from our iniquities. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:19:18,400 –> 00:19:20,240
\nThen I’ve watched.
\nThis a lot in doing baptismal <\/p>\n
394
\n00:19:20,240 –> 00:19:22,120
\ninterviews back in North
\nAmerica. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:19:22,400 –> 00:19:24,600
\nBut a lot of times I’ll start
\noff with questions with the <\/p>\n
396
\n00:19:24,600 –> 00:19:26,960
\nyoung people and I’ll say, well,
\nwhy do you want to be baptized? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:19:26,960 –> 00:19:30,120
\nWhy do you want to be baptized?
\nAnd that the common answer I <\/p>\n
398
\n00:19:30,120 –> 00:19:32,760
\nalways get from my young people
\nis so I can be forgiven of my <\/p>\n
399
\n00:19:32,760 –> 00:19:35,960
\nsins.
\nAnd maybe that’s what we said <\/p>\n
400
\n00:19:35,960 –> 00:19:39,240
\ntoo, and that that’s true.
\nThat is part of the reason we <\/p>\n
401
\n00:19:39,240 –> 00:19:42,320
\nwant to be baptized.
\nBut oh, that’s not the big <\/p>\n
402
\n00:19:42,320 –> 00:19:45,000
\nreason really.
\nWhat we really should want, <\/p>\n
403
\n00:19:45,000 –> 00:19:47,840
\nbrothers and sisters, is angels
\nworking in our life. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:19:47,840 –> 00:19:51,920
\nGod involved Jesus directing and
\ncontrolling it all to where it <\/p>\n
405
\n00:19:51,920 –> 00:19:54,760
\nwill turn us away from our
\niniquities. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:19:55,240 –> 00:19:57,000
\nThat’s what this life is all
\nabout. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:19:57,320 –> 00:19:59,960
\nIt’s a training program to
\nbecome a different person. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:20:00,360 –> 00:20:04,160
\nAnd because of that our our
\ncommitment to that when we go <\/p>\n
409
\n00:20:04,160 –> 00:20:07,440
\ndown into the waters, when we
\ncome out and and we want to live<\/p>\n
410
\n00:20:07,440 –> 00:20:12,320
\na life after the resurrected
\nJesus, because of that, he can <\/p>\n
411
\n00:20:12,320 –> 00:20:15,960
\nrighteously forgive our sins
\nwithin the righteousness of God.<\/p>\n
412
\n00:20:16,440 –> 00:20:19,720
\nSo God’s morality, it really
\ndoes have a higher purpose. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:20:20,000 –> 00:20:25,000
\nHe’s not just worried about this
\nlife, He’s training us to fight <\/p>\n
414
\n00:20:25,000 –> 00:20:28,520
\nthe weaknesses of our flesh
\nbecause he’s preparing us for a <\/p>\n
415
\n00:20:28,520 –> 00:20:31,880
\nfuture life.
\nI I think that whole question of<\/p>\n
416
\n00:20:31,880 –> 00:20:33,800
\nsuffering Why does God allow
\nsuffering? <\/p>\n
417
\n00:20:33,800 –> 00:20:36,760
\nWhy do the righteous suffer Why
\nwhy do all these things happen <\/p>\n
418
\n00:20:37,000 –> 00:20:39,720
\nwe we so often focus on?
\nIt’s not fair. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:20:39,920 –> 00:20:42,280
\nI I shouldn’t get this.
\nI have to go through this <\/p>\n
420
\n00:20:42,280 –> 00:20:43,680
\nproblem.
\nI look at other brothers and <\/p>\n
421
\n00:20:43,680 –> 00:20:46,200
\nthey don’t have the same.
\nProblem that I have, they’re not<\/p>\n
422
\n00:20:46,200 –> 00:20:49,400
\nexperiencing in their lives the
\nsame troubles and trials that <\/p>\n
423
\n00:20:49,400 –> 00:20:52,720
\nI’m experiencing, but brother
\nand sister. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:20:52,720 –> 00:20:56,080
\nWe have total faith and
\nconfidence that when God sends <\/p>\n
425
\n00:20:56,080 –> 00:20:59,720
\nout his angels to work in our
\nlives, they are bringing the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:20:59,720 –> 00:21:05,960
\nright circumstances to save us
\nand and and to accomplish bigger<\/p>\n
427
\n00:21:05,960 –> 00:21:09,720
\nthings beyond us in all of this.
\nAnd we learn to trust them like <\/p>\n
428
\n00:21:09,720 –> 00:21:13,240
\nJoseph must have in being sold
\noff to slavery or like Jesus <\/p>\n
429
\n00:21:13,240 –> 00:21:15,000
\ndid.
\nI mean, imagine if Jesus had <\/p>\n
430
\n00:21:15,000 –> 00:21:16,600
\nsaid to God in the prayer in the
\ngarden. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:21:16,800 –> 00:21:19,560
\nNot just is there any other way,
\nbut I I shouldn’t have to go <\/p>\n
432
\n00:21:19,560 –> 00:21:22,000
\nthrough this.
\nI didn’t commit any sins. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:21:22,520 –> 00:21:26,520
\nHow can it be just and righteous
\nthat you require me to die on a <\/p>\n
434
\n00:21:26,520 –> 00:21:28,000
\ncross and go through all of
\nthis? <\/p>\n
435
\n00:21:28,280 –> 00:21:31,040
\nHow can that be within the
\nrighteousness of God? <\/p>\n
436
\n00:21:32,360 –> 00:21:35,480
\nJesus never said that, but Job
\ndid, didn’t he? <\/p>\n
437
\n00:21:35,480 –> 00:21:37,800
\nSee, Job got pushed into that
\ncorner. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:21:38,160 –> 00:21:40,600
\nJesus realized from Job’s
\nexperiences. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:21:40,600 –> 00:21:42,880
\nOh no, I’m not going to focus on
\nme. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:21:43,160 –> 00:21:46,400
\nIt’s not just about me.
\nIt’s about the others that God <\/p>\n
441
\n00:21:46,400 –> 00:21:48,840
\nhas come to save.
\nThat’s all a part of it as well,<\/p>\n
442
\n00:21:49,320 –> 00:21:52,200
\nand he understood that.
\nAnd and for those of you that <\/p>\n
443
\n00:21:52,200 –> 00:21:55,720
\nare listening online, I think
\nit’s good to realize today we’ve<\/p>\n
444
\n00:21:55,720 –> 00:21:58,240
\nbeen challenged by COVID.
\nSome people just stay home now <\/p>\n
445
\n00:21:58,240 –> 00:22:01,000
\nand they think, well, this is
\ngreat, I can stay, stay home and<\/p>\n
446
\n00:22:01,000 –> 00:22:04,120
\nwatch online and I can get my
\nspiritual life together. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:22:04,120 –> 00:22:05,880
\nI just, I don’t need to hardly
\nget dressed. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:22:05,880 –> 00:22:09,040
\nI’ll wear my pajamas and I can
\nhave my lunch sitting there <\/p>\n
449
\n00:22:09,040 –> 00:22:12,320
\nwhile I’m watching.
\nAnd we do all this for <\/p>\n
450
\n00:22:12,320 –> 00:22:14,760
\nourselves.
\nBut think about it. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:22:15,240 –> 00:22:17,280
\nWhat are you doing to help
\nanybody else in the community <\/p>\n
452
\n00:22:17,280 –> 00:22:19,840
\nhere today?
\nI mean, that’s what fellowship <\/p>\n
453
\n00:22:19,840 –> 00:22:23,280
\nis all about, isn’t it?
\nIt’s about God’s program is <\/p>\n
454
\n00:22:23,280 –> 00:22:28,200
\nabout turning us into angels and
\nangels, they are ministering <\/p>\n
455
\n00:22:28,200 –> 00:22:31,240
\nspirits that are set forth to
\nserve others. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:22:31,240 –> 00:22:34,520
\nIt’s all about service.
\nSo God’s morality. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:22:34,520 –> 00:22:37,520
\nWhen he when he says don’t
\nsteal, it’s like you accept your<\/p>\n
458
\n00:22:37,520 –> 00:22:40,120
\nsituation in life and you accept
\nwhat God has given you. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:42,680
\nYou don’t look out there as
\ncovetous as people do today. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:22:42,680 –> 00:22:44,280
\nAnd they want stuff, so they
\ntake it. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:22:44,680 –> 00:22:48,360
\nOr there’s no other gods before
\nhim, because he knows if we <\/p>\n
462
\n00:22:48,360 –> 00:22:52,480
\nworship other gods we will
\nbecome the God that we worship. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:22:53,160 –> 00:22:56,600
\nAnd if all those other gods have
\nno morality to them, the people <\/p>\n
464
\n00:22:56,600 –> 00:22:59,480
\nof this life, the pagans, they
\nloved it because they got to <\/p>\n
465
\n00:22:59,480 –> 00:23:02,240
\npractice all their.
\nSexual immorality, as Paul was <\/p>\n
466
\n00:23:02,240 –> 00:23:06,240
\ndealing with in Corinth, you
\nbecome the God that you worship,<\/p>\n
467
\n00:23:06,280 –> 00:23:09,480
\nis the sad thing of life.
\nDon’t divorce or commit <\/p>\n
468
\n00:23:09,480 –> 00:23:11,840
\nadultery.
\nWe we practice faithfulness. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:23:11,840 –> 00:23:15,880
\nThat’s what God wants us to do.
\nWe we faithfully take care of <\/p>\n
470
\n00:23:15,880 –> 00:23:18,080
\npeople.
\nHe wants faithfulness to be a <\/p>\n
471
\n00:23:18,080 –> 00:23:22,640
\npart of our character, as it is
\nin His in in Exodus 34, we learn<\/p>\n
472
\n00:23:22,640 –> 00:23:25,760
\nsubmission to one another
\nbecause God’s training us to <\/p>\n
473
\n00:23:25,760 –> 00:23:29,040
\nsubmit to Him, and we don’t.
\nTake vengeance. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:23:29,280 –> 00:23:32,400
\nWe don’t take vengeance in this
\nlife like so many people do. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:23:32,400 –> 00:23:34,560
\nThey think they’ve got to go out
\nthere and take their vengeance. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:23:34,800 –> 00:23:37,840
\nWe trust God to take care of it.
\nHe’ll bring the right <\/p>\n
477
\n00:23:37,840 –> 00:23:39,840
\ncircumstances into people’s
\nlives. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:23:40,200 –> 00:23:43,360
\nHe’ll take care of it all.
\nAnd we try to get rid of pride <\/p>\n
479
\n00:23:43,360 –> 00:23:46,520
\nbecause God’s children all day,
\nthey all humbly acknowledge <\/p>\n
480
\n00:23:46,520 –> 00:23:48,920
\nGod’s hand in every aspect of
\ntheir life. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:23:49,520 –> 00:23:52,520
\nAnd forgiveness and mercy and
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:23:52,880 –> 00:23:55,080
\nThose are characteristics of our
\nGod. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:23:55,520 –> 00:23:58,240
\nOur.
\nGod is that way, and we have to <\/p>\n
484
\n00:23:58,240 –> 00:24:01,640
\nbecome like him.
\nWe have to have compassion on <\/p>\n
485
\n00:24:01,640 –> 00:24:04,240
\npeople.
\nWhen we see people struggling in<\/p>\n
486
\n00:24:04,240 –> 00:24:07,040
\nlife, they may have made a
\nmistake, they’ve done something <\/p>\n
487
\n00:24:07,040 –> 00:24:10,200
\nfor which it it was wrong.
\nBut now that’s cost them. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:24:10,560 –> 00:24:13,080
\nWe we don’t just look at them
\nand say, well, you know, you <\/p>\n
489
\n00:24:13,080 –> 00:24:15,360
\nmade bad choices.
\nYou get what you deserved. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:24:15,360 –> 00:24:16,800
\nYou, you know you.
\nDug your own. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:24:16,800 –> 00:24:19,400
\nGrave there.
\nWe go out there and we help <\/p>\n
492
\n00:24:19,400 –> 00:24:21,000
\nthem.
\nWhat can we do to help? <\/p>\n
493
\n00:24:21,280 –> 00:24:23,920
\nHow can we get you out to this
\nor get this, get you through <\/p>\n
494
\n00:24:23,920 –> 00:24:26,560
\nthis?
\nThat’s the spirit of the angels,<\/p>\n
495
\n00:24:27,000 –> 00:24:30,320
\nthat’s what they do and that’s
\nwhat we should be doing as well.<\/p>\n
496
\n00:24:30,800 –> 00:24:33,240
\nSo.
\nGod’s morality isn’t just for <\/p>\n
497
\n00:24:33,240 –> 00:24:35,480
\nthis life.
\nHe’s really preparing us for <\/p>\n
498
\n00:24:35,480 –> 00:24:37,920
\nimmortality.
\nLook at how Paul deals with this<\/p>\n
499
\n00:24:37,920 –> 00:24:41,240
\nin Colossians chapter 3 when he
\nsays if you were raised with <\/p>\n
500
\n00:24:41,240 –> 00:24:44,400
\nChrist, if you really have come
\nout of the waters of baptism and<\/p>\n
501
\n00:24:44,400 –> 00:24:47,680
\nyou’ve been raised to this new
\nway of life, seek the things <\/p>\n
502
\n00:24:47,880 –> 00:24:50,880
\nwhich are above where Christ is
\nsitting at the right hand of <\/p>\n
503
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:53,440
\nGod.
\nAnd set your mind on things that<\/p>\n
504
\n00:24:53,440 –> 00:24:55,640
\nare above, not on the things on
\nearth. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:24:56,000 –> 00:24:59,640
\nFor you died and your life is
\nhidden with Christ and God. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:24:59,960 –> 00:25:03,440
\nAnd when Christ, who is our
\nlife, appears, then you will <\/p>\n
507
\n00:25:03,440 –> 00:25:07,680
\nalso appear with him in glory.
\nYou see, he Paul realized it was<\/p>\n
508
\n00:25:07,680 –> 00:25:09,480
\nall about the future.
\nIt’s. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:25:09,480 –> 00:25:12,680
\nNot about now.
\nWe may be asked to do all kinds <\/p>\n
510
\n00:25:12,680 –> 00:25:15,400
\nof things in this life by God
\nright now, and and suffer <\/p>\n
511
\n00:25:15,400 –> 00:25:17,120
\nthrough those things and and
\nwork. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:25:17,120 –> 00:25:18,000
\nOur way through.
\nThem. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:25:18,200 –> 00:25:22,240
\nBut it’s because he’s preparing
\nus for when Christ, who is our <\/p>\n
514
\n00:25:22,240 –> 00:25:25,600
\nlife, appears, then all these
\nthings will be fixed. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:25:26,200 –> 00:25:28,080
\nI just think you’ll see that
\neven as we’re. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:25:28,080 –> 00:25:30,600
\nGoing through Job, Job came to
\nthat conclusion as well. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:25:31,520 –> 00:25:34,560
\nYou look at the natural world
\ntoday so often, at least here in<\/p>\n
518
\n00:25:34,560 –> 00:25:36,880
\nin Australia, I think in
\nCalifornia we can too. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:25:37,040 –> 00:25:39,760
\nYou can walk outside and you can
\nsee the sunrise in the morning. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:25:39,760 –> 00:25:42,880
\nYou see the the the sky in.
\nIn Michigan, probably half the <\/p>\n
521
\n00:25:42,880 –> 00:25:45,840
\ndays were cloudy.
\nSo we sometimes saw the sun, a <\/p>\n
522
\n00:25:45,840 –> 00:25:48,040
\nlot of times we didn’t, but in
\nCalifornia we do. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:25:48,320 –> 00:25:51,240
\nBut when you gaze up into the
\nsky and you see that blue sky up<\/p>\n
524
\n00:25:51,240 –> 00:25:54,880
\nthere, you know God was hoping
\nthat the natural things just <\/p>\n
525
\n00:25:54,880 –> 00:25:58,920
\nwaking up and seeing the sunrise
\nevery day would remind us about <\/p>\n
526
\n00:25:58,920 –> 00:26:00,640
\nresurrection from the dead.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:26:00,640 –> 00:26:02,920
\nSlept all night.
\nIt was like going in the grave <\/p>\n
528
\n00:26:03,120 –> 00:26:06,440
\nand and the day will come when
\nthe sun of righteousness arises <\/p>\n
529
\n00:26:06,440 –> 00:26:09,520
\nwith healing in his wings.
\nAnd it will be a day in which <\/p>\n
530
\n00:26:09,560 –> 00:26:12,560
\nall things are finally worth it
\nand they’re made right. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:26:13,040 –> 00:26:16,480
\nIt’s not just this life right
\nnow that’s one of the great <\/p>\n
532
\n00:26:16,480 –> 00:26:19,360
\nlessons in Ecclesiastes I think
\nyou’ll see too. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:26:20,400 –> 00:26:24,000
\nSo look further on in Colossians
\n5 when he in Colossians chapter <\/p>\n
534
\n00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:27,960
\n3, when he says therefore he
\nsays look it, we got to put to <\/p>\n
535
\n00:26:27,960 –> 00:26:31,080
\ndeath our members which are on
\nthe earth fornication, <\/p>\n
536
\n00:26:31,080 –> 00:26:34,720
\nuncleanness, passion, evil,
\ndesire, covetousness, which is <\/p>\n
537
\n00:26:34,720 –> 00:26:37,120
\nidolatry.
\nBecause of these things, the <\/p>\n
538
\n00:26:37,120 –> 00:26:40,240
\nwrath of God is coming upon the
\nsons of disobedience. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:26:41,360 –> 00:26:44,440
\nYou see?
\nYou see the difference in the <\/p>\n
540
\n00:26:44,440 –> 00:26:46,680
\nNew Testament of how this is
\nhandled. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:26:47,080 –> 00:26:49,960
\nAnd in the Old Testament, God’s
\nwrath was always on the nation <\/p>\n
542
\n00:26:49,960 –> 00:26:52,560
\nof Israel.
\nThey’re a stiff, necked people. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:26:53,000 –> 00:26:56,560
\nAnd in the New Testament, when
\npeople volunteered to join the <\/p>\n
544
\n00:26:56,560 –> 00:26:59,840
\ncommunity, he, Paul, can write
\nto them and say, all right, I <\/p>\n
545
\n00:26:59,840 –> 00:27:02,440
\nknow you have these problems,
\nbut look, let’s get on top of <\/p>\n
546
\n00:27:02,440 –> 00:27:06,160
\nthis and put to death these evil
\nthings, because the wrath of God<\/p>\n
547
\n00:27:06,160 –> 00:27:09,120
\nis going to come upon the sons
\nof disobedience. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:14,040
\nAnd he says in verse 7 in which
\nyou yourselves once walked when <\/p>\n
549
\n00:27:14,040 –> 00:27:18,000
\nyou lived in them, Don’t make
\nthe mistake of of taking our <\/p>\n
550
\n00:27:18,000 –> 00:27:22,360
\ncommunity today and thinking
\nthat we are just like national <\/p>\n
551
\n00:27:22,360 –> 00:27:25,520
\nIsrael of the past and whom God
\nis always angry with the <\/p>\n
552
\n00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:27,800
\ncommunity, always disappointed
\nwith the community. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:31,000
\nCall them all just stiff.
\nNecked people that is not us, <\/p>\n
554
\n00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:33,720
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nWe are children of God. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:27:33,720 –> 00:27:37,840
\nWe are sons of light and and
\ndon’t get so discouraged and <\/p>\n
556
\n00:27:37,840 –> 00:27:39,320
\ndon’t discourage the young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:27:39,320 –> 00:27:42,480
\nAnd end up saying it all,
\nEverything’s going downhill. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:27:43,120 –> 00:27:47,760
\nGod is changing us day by day,
\nyou know, incident by incident <\/p>\n
559
\n00:27:47,880 –> 00:27:51,880
\ninto his sons and daughter.
\nAnd so he put on that new man. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:27:52,160 –> 00:27:56,080
\nThat’s what he’s really after.
\nSo what God did is he carefully <\/p>\n
561
\n00:27:56,080 –> 00:27:59,000
\ndesigned a way in our natural
\nlife where he could teach us <\/p>\n
562
\n00:27:59,000 –> 00:28:01,280
\nsome of these principles about
\nhis character. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:28:01,640 –> 00:28:04,280
\nHe put us into families.
\nAnd you didn’t really get a <\/p>\n
564
\n00:28:04,280 –> 00:28:06,640
\nchoice, did you, about, you
\nknow, you look at the people <\/p>\n
565
\n00:28:06,640 –> 00:28:08,520
\nthat are here today.
\nDid you choose your parents? <\/p>\n
566
\n00:28:09,040 –> 00:28:11,000
\nNo, you don’t get to choose your
\nparents, right? <\/p>\n
567
\n00:28:11,400 –> 00:28:13,720
\nYou get to choose your spouse,
\nmaybe, but not your parents. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:28:14,800 –> 00:28:17,680
\nSo aren’t you glad you didn’t
\nlive under those days when you <\/p>\n
569
\n00:28:17,680 –> 00:28:19,760
\nknow I still watch some of the
\nMuslim community? <\/p>\n
570
\n00:28:19,760 –> 00:28:21,440
\nThey pick out their spouses for
\nthem. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:28:21,440 –> 00:28:24,680
\nThere’s other areas of the world
\nthat do that, but you you get to<\/p>\n
572
\n00:28:24,680 –> 00:28:26,720
\nchoose that.
\nBut there’s a lot of times where<\/p>\n
573
\n00:28:26,720 –> 00:28:29,640
\nyou just have to accept what God
\nhas given us. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:28:29,720 –> 00:28:32,520
\nWe’re born into a family.
\nYou look at the parents around <\/p>\n
575
\n00:28:32,520 –> 00:28:34,320
\nhere.
\nDid all of you choose your <\/p>\n
576
\n00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:36,600
\nchildren?
\nNo. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:37,960
\nSee, you didn’t.
\nDid you? <\/p>\n
578
\n00:28:38,120 –> 00:28:39,680
\nYou ever had that feeling where
\nyou looked? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:28:39,680 –> 00:28:43,360
\nAround and said, wow, I wish my
\nkids could be like those kids, <\/p>\n
580
\n00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:47,000
\nLook at them, sit there at the
\ntable they’re using. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:28:47,000 –> 00:28:48,880
\nYou know, they they’re not
\nyelling at each other. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:28:48,880 –> 00:28:50,320
\nThey’re not jumping out of their
\nchairs. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:28:50,520 –> 00:28:52,160
\nThey actually sit.
\nDown for a meal. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:28:52,600 –> 00:28:54,680
\nI had a son who just like,
\ncouldn’t sit down. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:28:54,680 –> 00:28:57,080
\nHe’d stand at the edge of the
\ntable and eat there, moving <\/p>\n
586
\n00:28:57,080 –> 00:28:59,240
\naround all the time.
\nHe was just like, so active. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:28:59,680 –> 00:29:02,480
\nBut you know, we can do those
\nkind of things, but. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:05,960
\nIt’s all within God’s God’s
\noperation. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:29:05,960 –> 00:29:09,480
\nThese are all in God’s control.
\nHe’s given us parents, you can <\/p>\n
590
\n00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:12,280
\nbe assured.
\nHe’s given us the children that <\/p>\n
591
\n00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:15,480
\nare right.
\nFor you and and for children. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:29:15,480 –> 00:29:18,080
\nHe’s giving you parents that are
\nright for you. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:29:18,480 –> 00:29:22,800
\nEveryone gets challenged, we all
\ndo, But God is using that to <\/p>\n
594
\n00:29:22,800 –> 00:29:25,920
\nfine tune us so that he can
\ntrain us for his family. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:29:26,400 –> 00:29:29,640
\nI still remember as as as a
\nteacher, a school teacher in in <\/p>\n
596
\n00:29:29,640 –> 00:29:31,800
\nat least in the United States.
\nI’m sure here in Australia you <\/p>\n
597
\n00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:34,280
\nget the same thing and more and
\nmore as time went on they <\/p>\n
598
\n00:29:34,280 –> 00:29:37,120
\npressured us to like, get to
\nknow all of our students <\/p>\n
599
\n00:29:37,120 –> 00:29:41,040
\nindividually, find out what
\ntheir learning style is and then<\/p>\n
600
\n00:29:41,040 –> 00:29:41,520
\nmake.
\nSure. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:29:41,520 –> 00:29:44,880
\nWhen you get to class for those
\nthirty kids that you teach each <\/p>\n
602
\n00:29:44,880 –> 00:29:49,000
\none of them in the learning
\nstyle that they need, and we’d <\/p>\n
603
\n00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:51,360
\nlook at them like, wow, is this
\never a theoretical. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:29:51,360 –> 00:29:54,160
\nClass it’s like.
\nWho’s who in the world’s ever <\/p>\n
605
\n00:29:54,160 –> 00:29:57,640
\ngoing to be able to do that?
\nI had 150 kids and it’s like <\/p>\n
606
\n00:29:57,760 –> 00:30:00,440
\nmaybe by the end of the year I
\nmight at least know what they <\/p>\n
607
\n00:30:00,440 –> 00:30:02,920
\nneed, but I I can’t.
\nTeach each one by their <\/p>\n
608
\n00:30:02,920 –> 00:30:06,320
\nindividual needs.
\nBut you realized what in God’s <\/p>\n
609
\n00:30:06,320 –> 00:30:10,360
\nfamily, when he sends angels out
\nto work in your life, you are <\/p>\n
610
\n00:30:10,360 –> 00:30:16,320
\ngetting individualized, custom
\nmade experiences to train you <\/p>\n
611
\n00:30:16,320 –> 00:30:18,960
\nfor his family.
\nAnd so they’re going to be <\/p>\n
612
\n00:30:18,960 –> 00:30:21,720
\ndifferent from somebody else.
\nYou don’t get the same <\/p>\n
613
\n00:30:21,720 –> 00:30:24,160
\nexperiences that I did.
\nI don’t get the same ones that <\/p>\n
614
\n00:30:24,160 –> 00:30:26,800
\nyou did.
\nGod brings all the challenges <\/p>\n
615
\n00:30:26,800 –> 00:30:29,600
\nwith with our children and
\nparents and ecclesias and all <\/p>\n
616
\n00:30:29,600 –> 00:30:33,400
\nthe ecclesial members.
\nThey’re all custom designed by <\/p>\n
617
\n00:30:33,400 –> 00:30:35,600
\nangels.
\nAnd we are, we can be. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:40,200
\nAssured, he’s in control, and he
\npromises that if we cooperate <\/p>\n
619
\n00:30:40,200 –> 00:30:43,040
\nwith the program, we will win
\nthe race. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:30:43,400 –> 00:30:46,640
\nYou will get the prize at the
\nend, but if you fight it. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:49,200
\nYou say that’s not fair.
\nI shouldn’t have to go through <\/p>\n
622
\n00:30:49,200 –> 00:30:53,080
\nthis if if that’s our approach,
\nyou may not make it. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:30:53,440 –> 00:30:58,120
\nYou’ve got to keep that faith
\nwith us until the end, all the <\/p>\n
624
\n00:30:58,120 –> 00:31:00,640
\nway through.
\nLook at how God he, you know, <\/p>\n
625
\n00:31:00,640 –> 00:31:03,560
\nwhen he made our families, he,
\nhe could have used communes if <\/p>\n
626
\n00:31:03,560 –> 00:31:06,600
\nhe wanted to, could have used
\npolygamy, Not although you see <\/p>\n
627
\n00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:09,440
\npolygamy in the Bible.
\nIt really was never the divine <\/p>\n
628
\n00:31:09,440 –> 00:31:11,160
\nideal.
\nAnd you see that. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:31:11,160 –> 00:31:13,680
\nLike, look at with Jacob with
\nhis four wives. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:31:13,680 –> 00:31:16,320
\nI mean, if you think any of you
\nguys think that’s the way you <\/p>\n
631
\n00:31:16,320 –> 00:31:19,040
\nwant to go, read Jacob’s life
\nstory again and see how well <\/p>\n
632
\n00:31:19,040 –> 00:31:24,040
\nthat worked for him.
\nI think he probably had the most<\/p>\n
633
\n00:31:24,040 –> 00:31:26,200
\ndysfunctional family in the
\nBible. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:31:26,200 –> 00:31:29,320
\nIt’s like, so don’t don’t think
\nthat’s going to somehow solve <\/p>\n
635
\n00:31:29,320 –> 00:31:31,160
\nall your problems.
\nYou just get more wives. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:33,320
\nIt doesn’t work.
\nLook at Solomon and look at what<\/p>\n
637
\n00:31:33,320 –> 00:31:35,920
\nit did to him.
\nBut you look at how in Genesis 2<\/p>\n
638
\n00:31:35,920 –> 00:31:39,440
\nand verse 18 the Angel said that
\nit is not good for man to be <\/p>\n
639
\n00:31:39,440 –> 00:31:41,880
\nalone.
\nWell we looked at Genesis 18 <\/p>\n
640
\n00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:46,000
\nwhere they said those 3 angels
\nsaid we’ve known Abraham. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:31:46,000 –> 00:31:49,640
\nWe have intimately known him as
\nour friend, that he might <\/p>\n
642
\n00:31:49,640 –> 00:31:53,440
\ncommand his children that that’s
\nwhat that’s how the relationship<\/p>\n
643
\n00:31:53,440 –> 00:31:56,200
\nthat they had with him.
\nOr in Ephesians step chapter <\/p>\n
644
\n00:31:56,200 –> 00:31:59,000
\nthree, that when he talks about
\nthe Father of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
645
\n00:31:59,000 –> 00:32:03,240
\nChrist from whom the whole
\nfamily in heaven and earth is <\/p>\n
646
\n00:32:03,240 –> 00:32:05,840
\nnamed.
\nThe whole family is named that <\/p>\n
647
\n00:32:05,840 –> 00:32:10,160
\nway, and but God put us in
\nfamilies so that we could learn <\/p>\n
648
\n00:32:10,160 –> 00:32:14,400
\nthese family principles that are
\nso essential to become part of <\/p>\n
649
\n00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:16,600
\nhis family.
\nDon’t resist them. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:32:17,040 –> 00:32:20,600
\nLearn to cooperate with them.
\nLearn to work with God and with <\/p>\n
651
\n00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:23,000
\nthe angels that are bringing
\nthese things into your life. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:32:23,280 –> 00:32:26,520
\nIn the lives of others, this is
\nhow you can be effective <\/p>\n
653
\n00:32:26,520 –> 00:32:29,520
\ncounselors to people who are
\ngoing through problems. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:32:29,880 –> 00:32:31,920
\nNot like Job’s three friends.
\nOh no. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:32:32,240 –> 00:32:35,080
\nWhen we’ve talked to people
\ntoday, we try to explain to them<\/p>\n
656
\n00:32:35,080 –> 00:32:36,920
\nthat there there are reasons for
\nthese things. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:32:37,120 –> 00:32:39,720
\nGod is working with you like he
\nworked with Joseph. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:32:39,880 –> 00:32:42,840
\nAnd it may be for the sake of
\nother people, God is working <\/p>\n
659
\n00:32:42,840 –> 00:32:45,040
\nwith us.
\nAs Elijah will later on say. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:32:45,040 –> 00:32:48,800
\nHe says, look at God uses
\nsuffering as a preventive <\/p>\n
661
\n00:32:48,800 –> 00:32:51,960
\nmaintenance program.
\nHe doesn’t wait until we go off <\/p>\n
662
\n00:32:51,960 –> 00:32:53,800
\ndown the pathway and then try to
\nbring us back. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:57,320
\nHe sometimes uses suffering to
\nmake sure we don’t go down the <\/p>\n
664
\n00:32:57,320 –> 00:33:00,400
\npathway in the first place.
\nThat’s what God does with us. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:04,720
\nIt’s it’s a different way of
\nlooking at life, but it’s all <\/p>\n
666
\n00:33:04,720 –> 00:33:07,360
\ndesigned by God.
\nSo marriage was a big part of <\/p>\n
667
\n00:33:07,360 –> 00:33:08,840
\nthat.
\nLook at how many of you here, <\/p>\n
668
\n00:33:08,840 –> 00:33:11,520
\nhere today are, are married.
\nAnd when you get married, you <\/p>\n
669
\n00:33:11,520 –> 00:33:14,440
\nknow, all of a sudden you have
\nto merge characters and cultures<\/p>\n
670
\n00:33:14,440 –> 00:33:16,920
\ntogether.
\nAnd it’s not an easy thing. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:33:17,320 –> 00:33:21,160
\nBut we learn how to submit to
\none another, as Peter would say,<\/p>\n
672
\n00:33:21,360 –> 00:33:24,520
\nwhen when we marry and what God
\nhas joined together, we we don’t<\/p>\n
673
\n00:33:24,520 –> 00:33:26,920
\nwant to separate.
\nWe don’t fight it and just say, <\/p>\n
674
\n00:33:26,920 –> 00:33:29,160
\nwell, this one didn’t work.
\nI picked the wrong person. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:33:29,480 –> 00:33:31,520
\nThat that isn’t the kind of life
\nwe want to have. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:33:31,760 –> 00:33:34,320
\nAnd for young people, I I do
\nthink that’s one of the problems<\/p>\n
677
\n00:33:34,320 –> 00:33:37,120
\nwith picking our spouses today
\nis that you go out and you pick <\/p>\n
678
\n00:33:37,120 –> 00:33:39,360
\na spouse and then later on in
\nlife you look at your wife and <\/p>\n
679
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:42,520
\nyour your husband and you think,
\nwell, maybe I picked the wrong. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:33:42,520 –> 00:33:46,000
\n1.
\nDo you believe God’s working in <\/p>\n
681
\n00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:47,560
\nyour life?
\nYou pray about it. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:51,280
\nYou pray that God will bring the
\nright person to you trust them <\/p>\n
683
\n00:33:51,280 –> 00:33:54,720
\nfor the rest of your life.
\nHe he is working in this we we <\/p>\n
684
\n00:33:54,720 –> 00:33:58,840
\ndon’t just walk away from it.
\nWe work through it and and <\/p>\n
685
\n00:33:58,840 –> 00:34:00,360
\nothers help us work through
\nthat. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:34:00,640 –> 00:34:04,400
\nOr you look in Malachi chapter 2
\nwhen Malachi says what when when<\/p>\n
687
\n00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:08,239
\nthe angels were making Adam and
\nEve, when they were creating Eve<\/p>\n
688
\n00:34:08,239 –> 00:34:11,560
\nfor Adam and and did he not make
\none? <\/p>\n
689
\n00:34:11,960 –> 00:34:14,080
\n1.
\nYet he had the residue of the <\/p>\n
690
\n00:34:14,080 –> 00:34:15,320
\nSpirit.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:34:15,320 –> 00:34:17,800
\nAnd why one, You know, see, see
\nthe argument there? <\/p>\n
692
\n00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:21,000
\nIt’s like when the angels made
\nEve, couldn’t they have made two<\/p>\n
693
\n00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:24,199
\nEves for Adam?
\nThey could have, but they made <\/p>\n
694
\n00:34:24,199 –> 00:34:26,400
\nthree.
\nCould have made ten. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:34:26,880 –> 00:34:27,920
\nWhat do you think?
\nThe angels. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:34:27,920 –> 00:34:29,520
\nWere out of.
\nSpirit like they ran out of <\/p>\n
697
\n00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:33,120
\njuice and the batteries were
\ndead and and that’s why no, they<\/p>\n
698
\n00:34:33,120 –> 00:34:36,600
\nmade one and and why did they
\nonly make one? <\/p>\n
699
\n00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:41,960
\nBecause he’s seeking godly.
\nOffspring and God realized the <\/p>\n
700
\n00:34:41,960 –> 00:34:44,520
\nbest way to raise children and
\nthe. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:34:44,520 –> 00:34:47,440
\nTruth.
\nIs to have a mom and a dad <\/p>\n
702
\n00:34:47,679 –> 00:34:50,800
\nworking together, illustrating
\nthe principles of God’s <\/p>\n
703
\n00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:52,880
\ncharacter and raising those
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:34:53,440 –> 00:34:56,000
\nIt’s another one of those things
\nyou can see with with Joseph’s <\/p>\n
705
\n00:34:56,000 –> 00:34:59,360
\nfamily that when you have more
\nthan one wife, look at the the, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,640
\nthe envy and the jealousy and
\nall the confusion that that <\/p>\n
707
\n00:35:02,640 –> 00:35:06,800
\ncaused, it’s not really a great
\nway to raise godly offspring. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:09,840
\nSo take heed to your spirit.
\nAnd none of you deal <\/p>\n
709
\n00:35:09,840 –> 00:35:13,600
\ntreacherously against the wife
\nof your youth as they were at <\/p>\n
710
\n00:35:13,600 –> 00:35:16,680
\nthat time.
\nSo God is the one designed this <\/p>\n
711
\n00:35:16,680 –> 00:35:20,600
\nway, a man and a wife to
\nillustrate to the children. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:35:20,880 –> 00:35:25,880
\nOur goal as parents is that we
\nhave to learn God’s character so<\/p>\n
713
\n00:35:25,880 –> 00:35:29,720
\nthat we can treat our children
\nthe way God treats us, so that <\/p>\n
714
\n00:35:29,720 –> 00:35:33,160
\nas our children grow up through
\nthe teen years, they’ll realize <\/p>\n
715
\n00:35:33,160 –> 00:35:35,760
\nthat all they got to do is
\ntransfer that relationship they <\/p>\n
716
\n00:35:35,760 –> 00:35:39,440
\nhave with us as mom and dad to
\nthe Heavenly Father. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:35:39,840 –> 00:35:43,280
\nIt’s just a simple transfer of
\nrelationship, but they don’t <\/p>\n
718
\n00:35:43,280 –> 00:35:46,040
\nhave to learn some something
\nabout, oh wow, now I have this <\/p>\n
719
\n00:35:46,040 –> 00:35:49,320
\nGod that that loves me and he
\nand he treats me mercifully and <\/p>\n
720
\n00:35:49,320 –> 00:35:52,000
\nMom and Dad didn’t.
\nI mean, that’s not easy to <\/p>\n
721
\n00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:54,760
\nadjust to.
\nA lot of times when when we <\/p>\n
722
\n00:35:54,760 –> 00:35:57,760
\ntreat our kids judge mentally
\nand we’re always punishing them <\/p>\n
723
\n00:35:57,760 –> 00:35:59,720
\nand we use those words, you’re
\ngoing to be punished. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:36:00,320 –> 00:36:02,720
\nAnd and our children grew up
\nthinking, well, that’s what God <\/p>\n
725
\n00:36:02,720 –> 00:36:04,880
\nwill do to me.
\nI think that’s what Job’s <\/p>\n
726
\n00:36:04,880 –> 00:36:06,000
\nfriends thought.
\nThey thought they were going to <\/p>\n
727
\n00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:09,720
\nget punished by God, and they
\nused that word punished a lot. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:36:10,280 –> 00:36:12,440
\nDid you realize?
\nThink for yourself, run your, <\/p>\n
729
\n00:36:12,560 –> 00:36:15,040
\nyour, your mind through the New
\nTestament passages? <\/p>\n
730
\n00:36:15,880 –> 00:36:18,760
\nWhere in the New Testament does
\nit ever say that God is <\/p>\n
731
\n00:36:18,760 –> 00:36:22,360
\npunishing us?
\nHave you ever noticed that or <\/p>\n
732
\n00:36:22,360 –> 00:36:25,080
\ndoes it say in the New Testament
\nthat, that God punishes us? <\/p>\n
733
\n00:36:26,360 –> 00:36:28,800
\nIt does, all over the place in
\nthe Old Testament with Israel, <\/p>\n
734
\n00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:32,400
\nbecause they were national, they
\nwere a nation and he punished <\/p>\n
735
\n00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:35,280
\nthe nation.
\nBut when he punished the nation,<\/p>\n
736
\n00:36:35,280 –> 00:36:40,000
\nwas he punishing Caleb and and
\nJoshua when he punished the <\/p>\n
737
\n00:36:40,000 –> 00:36:42,960
\nnation?
\nNo, he was punishing the nation.<\/p>\n
738
\n00:36:42,960 –> 00:36:44,360
\nThey were a stiff, necked
\nnation. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:36:44,760 –> 00:36:47,920
\nBut in the New Testament, you’ll
\nfind the word punished does <\/p>\n
740
\n00:36:47,920 –> 00:36:49,080
\nshow.
\nUp in our Bibles. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:36:49,080 –> 00:36:52,360
\nA few times.
\nBut who is it he’s punishing? <\/p>\n
742
\n00:36:52,360 –> 00:36:54,800
\nThe wicked.
\nWhen the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
743
\n00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,560
\nreturns in First Thessalonians
\none, he will be inflicting <\/p>\n
744
\n00:36:57,560 –> 00:37:01,640
\nvengeance on those who know not
\nGod, who disobey the the, the <\/p>\n
745
\n00:37:01,640 –> 00:37:03,880
\nWord of God.
\nDon’t Those are the wicked. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:37:04,520 –> 00:37:06,560
\nHe’s not.
\nComing back to punish us? <\/p>\n
747
\n00:37:06,880 –> 00:37:08,960
\nThat isn’t the God who we
\nworship. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:37:09,320 –> 00:37:10,920
\nAnd don’t raise our children
\nthat way. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:37:10,920 –> 00:37:12,880
\nDon’t.
\nDon’t talk about punishing your <\/p>\n
750
\n00:37:12,880 –> 00:37:16,200
\nchildren.
\nWhat the Bible uses is training,<\/p>\n
751
\n00:37:16,520 –> 00:37:20,560
\ninstruction, discipline.
\nThey’re positive things. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:37:20,560 –> 00:37:22,720
\nThey’re they’re working towards
\na better goal. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:25,200
\nPunishment is like, you’re going
\nto get what you deserve. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:26,400
\nYou did this.
\nYou’re going to get it. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:30,560
\nBut we know God doesn’t punish
\nus according what our sins <\/p>\n
756
\n00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:32,400
\ndeserve.
\nThat isn’t how he treats us. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:37:32,720 –> 00:37:37,360
\nAnd so we shouldn’t be treating
\nour our children that way and <\/p>\n
758
\n00:37:37,440 –> 00:37:39,640
\narranging brotherhood and
\necclesial members that vote. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:37:39,640 –> 00:37:42,400
\nWe shouldn’t be treating our
\nmembership that way either. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:37:43,040 –> 00:37:46,280
\nWhen young people make mistakes
\nor somebody commits adultery and<\/p>\n
761
\n00:37:46,280 –> 00:37:49,800
\nthey’re sorry and they come back
\nto us, we should be treating <\/p>\n
762
\n00:37:49,800 –> 00:37:54,280
\nthem like God treated David.
\nWe can forgive them. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:37:54,280 –> 00:37:57,400
\nWe can treat them in a in a
\nwhole different way of thinking <\/p>\n
764
\n00:37:57,400 –> 00:38:00,000
\nthat I have to bring the
\npunishment on them for what <\/p>\n
765
\n00:38:00,000 –> 00:38:02,840
\nthey’ve done wrong, that that
\nisn’t what we find in our <\/p>\n
766
\n00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,800
\nscriptures.
\nSure, we might, we might protect<\/p>\n
767
\n00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:09,680
\npeople against consequences if
\nsomebody is an an abuser of <\/p>\n
768
\n00:38:09,680 –> 00:38:12,400
\nchildren or something like that.
\nThere might be restrictions put <\/p>\n
769
\n00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:16,200
\nout there, but we have to have
\nthe spirit of our God, the <\/p>\n
770
\n00:38:16,200 –> 00:38:19,600
\nspirit of Jesus, of forgiving
\npeople and moving on. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:38:19,640 –> 00:38:21,720
\nAnd if we don’t do that with our
\nchildren? <\/p>\n
772
\n00:38:22,040 –> 00:38:26,240
\nOur children will grow up and
\nnever understand God without a <\/p>\n
773
\n00:38:26,240 –> 00:38:27,920
\nlot of Bible reading on their
\nown. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:38:27,920 –> 00:38:30,400
\nIt’s just one of those areas we
\nreally have to work on. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:38:30,840 –> 00:38:34,440
\nSo we need to, as parents and
\ngrandparents, We have to give <\/p>\n
776
\n00:38:34,440 –> 00:38:38,440
\nour children good Bible counsel.
\nWe have to. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:38:38,440 –> 00:38:42,280
\nUnderstand our God like that’s,
\nyou know, Job’s three friends. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:43,320
\nThat’s what they’re going
\nthrough. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:38:43,320 –> 00:38:46,160
\nThey’re learning about God.
\nAnd so is Job through this whole<\/p>\n
780
\n00:38:46,160 –> 00:38:48,280
\nprocess.
\nI really believe when he says at<\/p>\n
781
\n00:38:48,280 –> 00:38:50,320
\nthe end that, you know, I I
\nheard about you. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:38:50,320 –> 00:38:52,720
\nOh yeah, I read my Bible and all
\nthose things. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:38:52,720 –> 00:38:56,040
\nI listened to classes, but now
\nmy eye sees you. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:38:56,040 –> 00:38:58,840
\nHe came to understand how God
\nworks. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:38:59,200 –> 00:39:01,920
\nWe wanted to do that for our
\nkids. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:39:02,200 –> 00:39:04,720
\nAnd so that they’ll understand
\nour God and that we’ll treat <\/p>\n
787
\n00:39:04,720 –> 00:39:07,040
\npeople the right way.
\nThat’s what we’re really after. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:39:07,400 –> 00:39:10,800
\nSo yeah, we do give counsel that
\nyes, our marriages should be in <\/p>\n
789
\n00:39:10,800 –> 00:39:14,600
\nthe Lord, as it says there in
\nthe RSV in in 2nd Corinthians 6.<\/p>\n
790
\n00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:17,960
\nDo not be mis mated with
\nunbelievers, because what <\/p>\n
791
\n00:39:17,960 –> 00:39:20,720
\npartnership has righteousness
\nwith iniquity and so on. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:39:21,040 –> 00:39:22,680
\nYou know we.
\nWant to be different. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:39:22,680 –> 00:39:26,680
\nWe want to get marriages that
\nboth partners are working for <\/p>\n
794
\n00:39:26,680 –> 00:39:29,080
\nthe same goal.
\nThey’re raising their children <\/p>\n
795
\n00:39:29,080 –> 00:39:33,000
\nto be godly children.
\nAnd then God will be a father to<\/p>\n
796
\n00:39:33,040 –> 00:39:35,960
\nus, and you shall be my sons and
\ndaughters, says the Lord <\/p>\n
797
\n00:39:35,960 –> 00:39:37,960
\nAlmighty.
\nThat’s what we want to do. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:39:37,960 –> 00:39:40,920
\nThat’s the kind of council
\nbecause we want to be raising <\/p>\n
799
\n00:39:40,920 –> 00:39:43,520
\ngodly children.
\nThat is the goal. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:39:43,720 –> 00:39:46,760
\nThat was the goal in Malachi.
\nThat’s why he only made one. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:39:47,040 –> 00:39:50,480
\nSo yes, somebody needs to be
\nhome instructing our children. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:39:50,800 –> 00:39:54,280
\nOur focus and our family should
\nbe on when we make decisions. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:39:54,560 –> 00:39:56,560
\nWhen you when young people when
\nyou get married and you’re. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:39:56,560 –> 00:39:57,800
\nTrying to decide where are you
\ngoing to live? <\/p>\n
805
\n00:39:57,800 –> 00:39:59,280
\nWhat kind of job are you going
\nto take on? <\/p>\n
806
\n00:39:59,520 –> 00:40:00,080
\nIt’s.
\nAll. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:03,000
\nWithin the framework of not just
\noh, I’m going to go out and do <\/p>\n
808
\n00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:05,600
\nwhat I want to do.
\nIt’s within the framework of <\/p>\n
809
\n00:40:05,600 –> 00:40:09,160
\nwhat can I do to where if God
\ngives us children, they can grow<\/p>\n
810
\n00:40:09,160 –> 00:40:12,240
\nup with other children and we
\ncan be near an Ecclesia, near an<\/p>\n
811
\n00:40:12,240 –> 00:40:15,640
\nactive ecclesia with young
\npeople in Sunday school and CYCS<\/p>\n
812
\n00:40:15,800 –> 00:40:20,200
\nand things that that help our
\nchildren become godly children. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:40:20,480 –> 00:40:23,280
\nIt’s not just I’m going to go
\nout and move and go somewhere <\/p>\n
814
\n00:40:23,280 –> 00:40:26,520
\nand just follow my job.
\nIt it it’s a challenge and we <\/p>\n
815
\n00:40:26,520 –> 00:40:29,560
\nmay have to make some tough
\ndecisions but keep the focus, <\/p>\n
816
\n00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:32,440
\nright.
\nIt’s on raising godly children <\/p>\n
817
\n00:40:32,800 –> 00:40:34,360
\nand what we do with our
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:40:34,360 –> 00:40:35,680
\nYou’re going to find out as
\nparents. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:38,720
\nIt’s so similar to what angels
\ndo with us now. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:40:38,760 –> 00:40:41,640
\nIt’s I think it’s really
\nunbelievable to watch angels in <\/p>\n
821
\n00:40:41,640 –> 00:40:44,320
\nthe Bible and and watch how they
\nhow they do things. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:40:44,680 –> 00:40:48,080
\nAnd I now read Genesis like
\ntotally different because you <\/p>\n
823
\n00:40:48,080 –> 00:40:50,920
\nknow, when it came time for all
\nthe earth becoming bad in <\/p>\n
824
\n00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:53,520
\nGenesis chapter 6, I I think,
\nyou know, they they probably <\/p>\n
825
\n00:40:53,520 –> 00:40:56,520
\ndecided to to bring the flood,
\ndestroy everybody. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:40:56,760 –> 00:40:58,920
\nAnd then they realized when it
\nwas all over that, you know, <\/p>\n
827
\n00:40:58,920 –> 00:41:02,000
\nwe’re never going to do that
\nagain next time around when when<\/p>\n
828
\n00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:04,160
\nthings got bad, they tried
\nchanging languages. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:41:04,480 –> 00:41:06,160
\nWell, that didn’t work so great
\neither. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:41:06,440 –> 00:41:09,080
\nAnd then they finally decided in
\nGenesis 12, why don’t we just <\/p>\n
831
\n00:41:09,080 –> 00:41:12,160
\ntake one minute, we’ll pick
\nAbraham, we’ll work with him and<\/p>\n
832
\n00:41:12,160 –> 00:41:15,960
\nand God gives them some
\nflexibility to try different <\/p>\n
833
\n00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:19,120
\nthings to see what works.
\nAnd I I think you’ll see that <\/p>\n
834
\n00:41:19,120 –> 00:41:22,360
\nwhen in terms of like watching
\nhow angels operate, I know my <\/p>\n
835
\n00:41:22,360 –> 00:41:24,320
\ntendency when I was younger to
\nread all these things. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:41:24,320 –> 00:41:26,080
\nHe just said God did this, God
\ndid that. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:41:26,440 –> 00:41:28,720
\nBut look, look at God already
\nknew what was. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:41:28,720 –> 00:41:30,240
\nGoing to happen when he did the
\nflood. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:41:30,440 –> 00:41:33,960
\nHe knew about the languages.
\nHe knew about picking Abraham. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:41:34,120 –> 00:41:37,120
\nHe knew all those things.
\nBut the angels didn’t. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:41:37,280 –> 00:41:39,640
\nThese these are things that they
\nlong to look into. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:41:39,640 –> 00:41:43,080
\nThey’re learning as they go
\nalong, and isn’t that fun to <\/p>\n
843
\n00:41:43,080 –> 00:41:46,040
\nrealize that that’s part of what
\nwe will be doing in the Kingdom <\/p>\n
844
\n00:41:46,040 –> 00:41:48,160
\nAge.
\nGod willing, when you are made <\/p>\n
845
\n00:41:48,160 –> 00:41:50,560
\nequal to the angels, you’ll be
\nworking with the mortals and <\/p>\n
846
\n00:41:50,560 –> 00:41:52,120
\nyou’ll be learning.
\nYou’ll be talking to one <\/p>\n
847
\n00:41:52,120 –> 00:41:53,120
\nanother.
\nWhat can we do? <\/p>\n
848
\n00:41:53,120 –> 00:41:54,880
\nHow do you think we can solve
\nthis, you know? <\/p>\n
849
\n00:41:54,880 –> 00:41:56,480
\nOne Angel says.
\nLook, I’m working with Jim, and <\/p>\n
850
\n00:41:56,480 –> 00:41:59,360
\nhe just doesn’t see this idea.
\nI’m trying to get him to see it,<\/p>\n
851
\n00:41:59,360 –> 00:42:00,680
\nbut he still can’t figure it
\nout. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:42:00,880 –> 00:42:03,520
\nYou got any good ideas?
\nYou got any good ideas of how I <\/p>\n
853
\n00:42:03,520 –> 00:42:06,760
\ncan bring circumstances into his
\nlife that he’ll finally get it? <\/p>\n
854
\n00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:08,000
\nAnd I I.
\nReally. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:10,600
\nDo believe that is what angels
\nare doing right now. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:14,880
\nToday they’re trying to figure
\nout how do we train these these <\/p>\n
857
\n00:42:14,880 –> 00:42:19,480
\nmortal people to to to get the
\ncharacter of God to understand <\/p>\n
858
\n00:42:19,480 –> 00:42:21,400
\nGod.
\nWhat can we bring into their <\/p>\n
859
\n00:42:21,400 –> 00:42:24,400
\nlife to challenge them.
\nAnd this is our practice time <\/p>\n
860
\n00:42:24,400 –> 00:42:27,400
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nThis is when we practice, we <\/p>\n
861
\n00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:31,560
\npractice righteousness today and
\nand the way that we treat each <\/p>\n
862
\n00:42:31,560 –> 00:42:34,800
\nother and we learn to work.
\nSo you look at examples of this <\/p>\n
863
\n00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:36,640
\nin the scriptures.
\nLook at how this worked out. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:39,160
\nZechariah chapter three, you
\nremember these stories. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:42:39,440 –> 00:42:42,880
\nSo he showed him in verse one.
\nHe showed him Joshua the high <\/p>\n
866
\n00:42:42,880 –> 00:42:44,520
\npriest.
\nHe’s standing there before the <\/p>\n
867
\n00:42:44,520 –> 00:42:47,280
\nAngel of the Lord who we find
\nout in June 9 is actually <\/p>\n
868
\n00:42:47,280 –> 00:42:50,600
\nMichael and Satan who is
\nprobably the Samaritan standing <\/p>\n
869
\n00:42:50,600 –> 00:42:53,040
\nat his right hand to oppose him
\nand the Lord. <\/p>\n
870
\n00:42:53,120 –> 00:42:56,040
\nSo this is the Angel now who’s
\nstanding there because it told <\/p>\n
871
\n00:42:56,040 –> 00:43:00,120
\nit was the Angel of the Lord,
\nAnd the Lord said to Satan, the <\/p>\n
872
\n00:43:00,120 –> 00:43:02,840
\nLord rebuke you, Satan.
\nThe Lord who has chosen <\/p>\n
873
\n00:43:02,840 –> 00:43:05,920
\nJerusalem rebuke you.
\nIs this not a brand plucked from<\/p>\n
874
\n00:43:05,920 –> 00:43:07,920
\nthe fire?
\nAll right, so this is all about <\/p>\n
875
\n00:43:07,920 –> 00:43:09,760
\nstanding there.
\nAnd he sees his vision of the <\/p>\n
876
\n00:43:09,760 –> 00:43:13,240
\nAngel of of God standing there.
\nAnd this is what the Angel says.<\/p>\n
877
\n00:43:13,960 –> 00:43:17,520
\nNow that story comes up in the
\nNew Testament. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:43:17,800 –> 00:43:21,280
\nAnd what, what I’m just
\nfascinated by what Jude does <\/p>\n
879
\n00:43:21,280 –> 00:43:23,480
\nwith this.
\nWhen this comes up in the New <\/p>\n
880
\n00:43:23,480 –> 00:43:27,520
\nTestament, Jude brings up this
\nincident to show us how <\/p>\n
881
\n00:43:27,560 –> 00:43:30,560
\narchangels behave.
\nThis is the Archangel. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:43:30,560 –> 00:43:33,360
\nThis is not just some Angel.
\nHe is the Archangel. <\/p>\n
883
\n00:43:33,640 –> 00:43:36,160
\nHe’s the top one up there.
\nHe’s the one who has all the <\/p>\n
884
\n00:43:36,160 –> 00:43:39,440
\npower and all the authority.
\nHe could do it, you know, God <\/p>\n
885
\n00:43:39,440 –> 00:43:41,480
\nhas empowered him already to do
\nthings. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:43:41,480 –> 00:43:44,640
\nLike when when the Angel told
\nMoses, You ever watch this guy, <\/p>\n
887
\n00:43:44,640 –> 00:43:48,200
\nhe’s going before you, this
\nAngel, and my name is in him and<\/p>\n
888
\n00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:51,280
\nhe will not, you know, hold you
\nlet you go when you when you <\/p>\n
889
\n00:43:51,280 –> 00:43:53,000
\nsin, he will hold you
\naccountable. <\/p>\n
890
\n00:43:53,360 –> 00:43:57,520
\nYou know this Angel is powerful.
\nWell, when when Jude looks at <\/p>\n
891
\n00:43:57,520 –> 00:44:01,720
\nthis in Jude five, he talks
\nabout how afterwards, you know, <\/p>\n
892
\n00:44:01,720 –> 00:44:03,760
\nGod destroyed those that did not
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:44:03,760 –> 00:44:06,880
\nAnd he talks about Korah’s
\nrebellion in verse 6, the <\/p>\n
894
\n00:44:06,880 –> 00:44:09,320
\nangels, the messengers with
\nKorah who did not keep their <\/p>\n
895
\n00:44:09,320 –> 00:44:12,640
\nproper domain, and so on.
\nAnd he reminds us that these <\/p>\n
896
\n00:44:12,680 –> 00:44:15,440
\nangels, they were supposed to
\nlearn something from them. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:44:16,120 –> 00:44:20,360
\nSo when you get to verse eight,
\nhe says, Likewise these dreamers<\/p>\n
898
\n00:44:20,360 –> 00:44:22,880
\nin a collegial life today, these
\npeople that are causing all this<\/p>\n
899
\n00:44:22,880 –> 00:44:25,760
\ntrouble, look at these guys over
\nhere of Jude’s day. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:44:26,040 –> 00:44:29,200
\nThey defile flesh, reject
\nauthority, speak evil of <\/p>\n
901
\n00:44:29,200 –> 00:44:31,680
\ndignitaries, look at how they
\nbehave. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:44:31,680 –> 00:44:33,480
\nThese ecclesial members who yell
\nand. <\/p>\n
903
\n00:44:33,480 –> 00:44:35,080
\nScream.
\nAnd just act like they’re <\/p>\n
904
\n00:44:35,280 –> 00:44:38,400
\nthey’re top notch dogs and they
\nthey they mistreat people. <\/p>\n
905
\n00:44:38,680 –> 00:44:42,200
\nAnd he says in verse 9.
\nBut look at yet Michael the <\/p>\n
906
\n00:44:42,200 –> 00:44:46,280
\nArchangel in contending with the
\ndevil when he disputed about the<\/p>\n
907
\n00:44:46,280 –> 00:44:49,640
\nbody of Moses.
\nThis is Zechariah 3 all right in<\/p>\n
908
\n00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:52,600
\ncontending with the devil, he.
\nAnd shooting about the body of <\/p>\n
909
\n00:44:52,600 –> 00:44:57,240
\nMoses dared not bring against
\nhim a reviling accusation. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:44:58,680 –> 00:45:01,680
\nDo you find that fascinating?
\nI I just was dumbfounded when I <\/p>\n
911
\n00:45:01,680 –> 00:45:06,280
\nrealized that Jude is using the.
\nBehavior of an Archangel to <\/p>\n
912
\n00:45:06,280 –> 00:45:09,360
\nexhort all of us about how we
\nbehave. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:45:09,720 –> 00:45:12,200
\nThat’s what finally opened the
\ndoor to me to realize I got to <\/p>\n
914
\n00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:14,760
\nbe more careful about reading
\nabout angels. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:45:15,040 –> 00:45:18,960
\nThey’re there to teach us how
\nGod’s family members behave. <\/p>\n
916
\n00:45:19,240 –> 00:45:21,000
\nThey don’t yell and scream at
\neach other. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:22,920
\nThey don’t.
\nThey don’t do things like you <\/p>\n
918
\n00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:25,720
\nmight see in some business
\nmeetings and arranging meetings <\/p>\n
919
\n00:45:25,720 –> 00:45:29,040
\nand all this, and husbands and
\nwives having arguments and <\/p>\n
920
\n00:45:29,040 –> 00:45:32,560
\ndisputing that’s not how they
\nbehave and they have a lot more <\/p>\n
921
\n00:45:32,560 –> 00:45:35,880
\npower and authority than we do.
\nBut instead, what did the Angel <\/p>\n
922
\n00:45:35,880 –> 00:45:37,720
\ndo?
\nHe didn’t bring a reviling <\/p>\n
923
\n00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:40,560
\naccusation.
\nHe just said the Lord rebuke. <\/p>\n
924
\n00:45:40,560 –> 00:45:44,520
\nYou let God take care of it,
\nThat’s what he did, and they’ll <\/p>\n
925
\n00:45:44,520 –> 00:45:47,080
\nbut these people, they spoke
\nevil of what they do not know. <\/p>\n
926
\n00:45:47,080 –> 00:45:48,960
\nAnd so on.
\nHave you ever thought about the <\/p>\n
927
\n00:45:48,960 –> 00:45:52,200
\nangels being an example to you
\nin this life of how to behave? <\/p>\n
928
\n00:45:52,760 –> 00:45:55,640
\nBe more careful in the readings
\nwhen you watch angels <\/p>\n
929
\n00:45:55,640 –> 00:45:58,440
\ninteracting with Gideon and with
\nall these different Bible <\/p>\n
930
\n00:45:58,440 –> 00:45:59,840
\ncharacters.
\nWatch. <\/p>\n
931
\n00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:02,760
\nHow they behave.
\nAnd try to mimic their behavior.<\/p>\n
932
\n00:46:02,760 –> 00:46:04,840
\nDo you remember the angels with
\nLot? <\/p>\n
933
\n00:46:05,040 –> 00:46:07,560
\nRemember what they did with Lot
\nwhen they brought Lot out of <\/p>\n
934
\n00:46:07,560 –> 00:46:09,920
\nSodom and Gomorrah?
\nThey were so patient. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:46:10,080 –> 00:46:12,960
\nYou know when you look back in
\nGenesis 19, they came to Sodom, <\/p>\n
936
\n00:46:12,960 –> 00:46:15,480
\nthe two angels, the other one’s
\nstill over there with Abraham. <\/p>\n
937
\n00:46:15,800 –> 00:46:19,080
\nAnd they they they come to there
\nand they’re they say look a lot <\/p>\n
938
\n00:46:19,080 –> 00:46:21,680
\nwe’re going to stay out there.
\nWe want to stay out in the city.<\/p>\n
939
\n00:46:21,840 –> 00:46:24,480
\nWe’re we’re here to find out how
\nbad things really are And lots <\/p>\n
940
\n00:46:24,480 –> 00:46:26,520
\ninsisting with them.
\nYou know come in the house, come<\/p>\n
941
\n00:46:26,520 –> 00:46:29,320
\nin the house, come in the house.
\nThey don’t just say it a lot in <\/p>\n
942
\n00:46:29,320 –> 00:46:30,360
\nthe end.
\nWell, look, you know I’m not <\/p>\n
943
\n00:46:30,360 –> 00:46:31,680
\ngoing to come in the house.
\nWe’re angels. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:46:31,720 –> 00:46:34,360
\nYou know we we can do what we
\nwant that that isn’t what they <\/p>\n
945
\n00:46:34,360 –> 00:46:35,840
\ndo.
\nThey say it a lot. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:46:35,840 –> 00:46:38,280
\nOK.
\nHe strongly insisted in verse 3.<\/p>\n
947
\n00:46:38,280 –> 00:46:41,760
\nSo they turned into him.
\nThey accommodated lot in this <\/p>\n
948
\n00:46:41,760 –> 00:46:43,640
\ncase.
\nAnd he said they say to him, <\/p>\n
949
\n00:46:43,640 –> 00:46:46,400
\nlook, have you anyone else here
\nin verse 12, sons in law saw <\/p>\n
950
\n00:46:46,400 –> 00:46:48,840
\nyour sons, daughters, whoever
\nyou have in the city. <\/p>\n
951
\n00:46:49,280 –> 00:46:51,040
\nLet’s get them out of here.
\nGo collect them. <\/p>\n
952
\n00:46:51,320 –> 00:46:56,200
\nThe angels waited all night for
\na lot to go find whoever he <\/p>\n
953
\n00:46:56,200 –> 00:46:59,520
\ncould to get out of that city.
\nThey are so patient. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:46:59,520 –> 00:47:01,360
\nBrethren and sisters, they don’t
\njust. <\/p>\n
955
\n00:47:01,360 –> 00:47:04,360
\nRush people through it.
\nThey waited all night. <\/p>\n
956
\n00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:07,920
\nAnd then when it came time to go
\nin the morning in verse 15, the <\/p>\n
957
\n00:47:07,920 –> 00:47:11,720
\nangels, they urged lot to hurry
\nsaying get your wife, your <\/p>\n
958
\n00:47:11,720 –> 00:47:14,840
\ndaughters, you got to get out of
\nhere so that you don’t get <\/p>\n
959
\n00:47:14,840 –> 00:47:19,280
\nconsumed into punishment and.
\nWhile he lingered, just picture <\/p>\n
960
\n00:47:19,280 –> 00:47:21,560
\nthis.
\nTwo angels grabbed Lot and his <\/p>\n
961
\n00:47:21,560 –> 00:47:24,440
\nwife and his two daughters.
\nThey grabbed them by the hand <\/p>\n
962
\n00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:27,280
\nand they literally walked them
\nout of the city. <\/p>\n
963
\n00:47:27,920 –> 00:47:31,400
\nThat’s the kind of compassion
\nthat God’s family members have <\/p>\n
964
\n00:47:31,400 –> 00:47:33,680
\nfor for brothers and sisters
\nthat are struggling. <\/p>\n
965
\n00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:37,760
\nThey walked them by the hand.
\nThey didn’t just yell at them <\/p>\n
966
\n00:47:37,760 –> 00:47:40,480
\nand say, I told you, get out of
\nhere, hurry up and get going and<\/p>\n
967
\n00:47:40,480 –> 00:47:43,440
\nall that.
\nThat’s how they behave and we <\/p>\n
968
\n00:47:43,440 –> 00:47:45,240
\nthat’s the way you got to behave
\nwith our kids. <\/p>\n
969
\n00:47:45,400 –> 00:47:48,440
\nWe have to treat everybody this
\nway, brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
970
\n00:47:48,680 –> 00:47:51,440
\nAnd so they say, look, escape
\nyour life and get out of there <\/p>\n
971
\n00:47:51,440 –> 00:47:53,400
\nand and so they get going.
\nDid you? <\/p>\n
972
\n00:47:53,400 –> 00:47:56,800
\nEver notice in verse 18 that Lot
\nsaid to them, Please know my <\/p>\n
973
\n00:47:56,800 –> 00:47:59,520
\nLords, indeed, that your
\nservants found favor in your <\/p>\n
974
\n00:47:59,520 –> 00:48:01,920
\nsight.
\nThat word for Lords in in our <\/p>\n
975
\n00:48:01,920 –> 00:48:05,120
\nBible is this lowercase.
\nBut if you get online sometime <\/p>\n
976
\n00:48:05,120 –> 00:48:09,880
\nand and research the 137 or 136
\nplaces that the Sulfurum changed<\/p>\n
977
\n00:48:09,880 –> 00:48:12,560
\nthe Hebrew text and they wrote
\nnotes in the margin because they<\/p>\n
978
\n00:48:12,560 –> 00:48:16,280
\ncouldn’t understand how Yahweh
\ncould be used there about these <\/p>\n
979
\n00:48:16,280 –> 00:48:19,160
\ntwo angels when Yahweh was still
\nback there with with Abraham <\/p>\n
980
\n00:48:19,160 –> 00:48:21,760
\nstanding before Yahweh.
\nIt’s one of the greatest. <\/p>\n
981
\n00:48:21,760 –> 00:48:24,880
\nExamples is how when you have
\nthe Yahweh name, it’s not just <\/p>\n
982
\n00:48:24,880 –> 00:48:27,720
\none Angel.
\nIt’s not one Angel like some of <\/p>\n
983
\n00:48:27,720 –> 00:48:30,640
\nour brethren think.
\nThere are multiple angels who <\/p>\n
984
\n00:48:30,640 –> 00:48:33,200
\nare called Yahweh.
\nAnd this is one of the clearest <\/p>\n
985
\n00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:35,960
\ncases of it that even the Jews
\ncouldn’t understand. <\/p>\n
986
\n00:48:36,160 –> 00:48:39,800
\nThat’s actually the Yahweh name.
\nSo I’ll just leave you with that<\/p>\n
987
\n00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:43,280
\none because it’s it’s sort of
\nfun to watch that when he says <\/p>\n
988
\n00:48:43,280 –> 00:48:46,880
\nplease let me escape there, look
\nat how the angels accommodated <\/p>\n
989
\n00:48:46,880 –> 00:48:48,400
\nhim.
\nAnd they say, look, I favored <\/p>\n
990
\n00:48:48,400 –> 00:48:51,880
\nyou in this, I won’t overthrow.
\nAnd they waited until he got to <\/p>\n
991
\n00:48:51,880 –> 00:48:53,880
\nZoar.
\nBrother and sisters. <\/p>\n
992
\n00:48:53,880 –> 00:48:57,320
\nWe’ve got to be more patient and
\ncompassionate with one another. <\/p>\n
993
\n00:48:57,480 –> 00:49:00,760
\nWe’ve got to learn to behave
\nlike angels because they’ve left<\/p>\n
994
\n00:49:00,760 –> 00:49:04,840
\nus an example of how to treat
\none another in ecclesial and <\/p>\n
995
\n00:49:04,840 –> 00:49:06,480
\nfamily life.
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