1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:04,600 It's been two weeks since I've been able to teach on a Sunday morning. 2 00:00:04,633 --> 00:00:07,633 I've offered two weeks, but it was so good 3 00:00:07,733 --> 00:00:11,766 to have Michael and Sean fill in for us about two weeks. 4 00:00:11,766 --> 00:00:14,466 Yeah. Yeah, that was good. 5 00:00:14,466 --> 00:00:17,400 Okay, listen. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,066 Now just stop. 7 00:00:19,066 --> 00:00:21,533 Listen, I gotta say this. 8 00:00:21,533 --> 00:00:25,466 The Bible says a double minded person is unstable in all they do. 9 00:00:25,533 --> 00:00:29,100 So either freaking commit to clapping or don't clap. 10 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:31,366 But we can't be like, thank you. 11 00:00:31,366 --> 00:00:32,700 Right? Like. 12 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:33,200 Yeah. 13 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,733 So, like, if you're going to clap, like, 14 00:00:35,733 --> 00:00:38,133 act like a mean, it it don't be double minded. 15 00:00:38,133 --> 00:00:39,100 You're unstable. 16 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:40,700 It's like I don't it's that. 17 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,700 Okay, so let me start over. 18 00:00:44,033 --> 00:00:46,066 It's been two weeks since I've been able to preach 19 00:00:46,066 --> 00:00:49,066 on a Sunday morning, and I've missed you, but it's been so good. 20 00:00:49,766 --> 00:00:53,400 For God to provide people like Michael and Sean to preach. 21 00:00:54,033 --> 00:00:55,200 When I'm gone. Yeah. 22 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:57,200 Yeah. 23 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,766 Well done, well done. Much better. 24 00:00:59,766 --> 00:01:00,400 Much better. 25 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,266 No double mindedness there. 26 00:01:03,266 --> 00:01:05,966 But we're in second Timothy, chapter 27 00:01:05,966 --> 00:01:09,966 three, and next week we're going to be in chapter four, 28 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 which will be the wrap up of our series through first and second Timothy, 29 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,900 and then after second Timothy four next week. 30 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:21,466 The following week, we're going to get into a, chapter by chapter 31 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,133 through the book of Ruth and I really excited to get into the book of Ruth. 32 00:01:26,133 --> 00:01:28,966 Right after that will be our our birthday party. 33 00:01:28,966 --> 00:01:31,366 And I'm excited to look at the book of Ruth leading 34 00:01:31,366 --> 00:01:33,700 into our birthday party and what God has done over the past 35 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:37,666 20 years through our church, the Kingdom work that he's accomplished. 36 00:01:37,966 --> 00:01:39,166 And so we're going to get there. 37 00:01:39,166 --> 00:01:39,700 And I'm excited 38 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:43,366 about going through the Book of Ruth, but we're going to wrap up strong. 39 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,600 The book of Second Timothy. Now, 40 00:01:47,433 --> 00:01:48,500 the occasion of the 41 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:51,500 writing of first and second Timothy was this. 42 00:01:51,866 --> 00:01:54,866 It's part of what we call the pastoral epistles. 43 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:58,566 There's one other one called Titus, and these two were 44 00:01:58,566 --> 00:02:01,566 letters written not to a church, but to an individual. 45 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:03,300 Timothy written to Timothy. 46 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:05,333 Titus written to Titus. 47 00:02:05,333 --> 00:02:07,800 This is at the end of Paul's life. 48 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,433 He's in his 60s. 49 00:02:09,433 --> 00:02:12,166 He's in the teen prison in Rome. 50 00:02:12,166 --> 00:02:15,166 He knows he's going to be beheaded at any moment. 51 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,733 And he's passing on these final instructions to these young men 52 00:02:19,733 --> 00:02:23,633 who are going to take over leadership and who are leading in churches, 53 00:02:24,433 --> 00:02:27,000 that he helped establish. 54 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Timothy is leading the church in Ephesus. 55 00:02:30,433 --> 00:02:32,900 And this is Paul's final words to Timothy. 56 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:37,200 Timothy is to his his young protege that he's been mentoring and disciple 57 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,833 in for for years now. 58 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,800 And, and and Paul is saying, Tim, as you 59 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,400 continue to step into this leadership and as I'm getting ready 60 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:53,000 for the final command of God to be in heaven, as I'm finishing out 61 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,266 my earthly work, I want to impress upon you 62 00:02:56,866 --> 00:03:00,366 both the time in which you are living 63 00:03:00,866 --> 00:03:05,800 and the call of God on your life and, and, and, and, 64 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:09,100 and Paul says, Timothy, you've got to do two things really well. 65 00:03:09,933 --> 00:03:12,933 You have to guard good doctrine. 66 00:03:13,233 --> 00:03:16,466 You gotta guard the dark, the clear doctrine of Scripture, 67 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,633 and you have to guide people into it. 68 00:03:19,633 --> 00:03:23,366 And that's why I titled this series when I created it, called Guard and Guide. 69 00:03:24,266 --> 00:03:27,266 We're looking at, guarding good doctrine 70 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,866 and guiding people into it because the times and seasons will come 71 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:37,233 when the Bible says, Paul will say, people are not willing to endure 72 00:03:37,233 --> 00:03:38,633 sound doctrine anymore. 73 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:40,500 And so 74 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:43,566 he's saying, Timothy, as you step into what God has called you, 75 00:03:43,566 --> 00:03:47,233 and as I step out of this world, let me one more time 76 00:03:48,066 --> 00:03:51,066 impress upon you the need 77 00:03:51,166 --> 00:03:54,166 to guard good doctrine and guide people into it. 78 00:03:55,033 --> 00:03:57,900 So the big idea for chapter three, 79 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:00,900 the one big idea for chapter three is this. 80 00:04:01,333 --> 00:04:03,300 That the collapse of culture 81 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,300 is the disciples call to courage. 82 00:04:08,166 --> 00:04:10,833 The culture in Paul, in Timothy's 83 00:04:10,833 --> 00:04:13,833 day, was in a rapid decline. 84 00:04:15,633 --> 00:04:18,733 It was in a rapid decline spiritually, 85 00:04:19,333 --> 00:04:23,333 morally, ethically, politically. 86 00:04:23,366 --> 00:04:26,366 This sound familiar to anybody? 87 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:30,033 And Paul is is going to tell Timothy, listen, 88 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,633 just because the culture is collapsing 89 00:04:33,633 --> 00:04:37,800 all around you and all those ways is doesn't 90 00:04:38,033 --> 00:04:40,866 it isn't the time for you 91 00:04:40,866 --> 00:04:45,000 to bemoan it, to protest, to revolt, to post about it? 92 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,433 It's your clarion call to 93 00:04:48,433 --> 00:04:51,433 courage in the midst of it. 94 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:55,300 And so similarly, 95 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:59,933 I don't care where you stand as far as your politics are concerned, 96 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:03,600 I think it's apparent to everybody that it feels as though 97 00:05:04,033 --> 00:05:07,566 the culture in which we're living is on a steady 98 00:05:07,566 --> 00:05:10,566 decline and collapse. 99 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,233 And for the Christ follower, it's a clarion call. 100 00:05:14,233 --> 00:05:17,400 In the midst of that collapse to courage. 101 00:05:17,933 --> 00:05:20,933 Now we're going to look at what that means. 102 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Paul is going to outline first 103 00:05:24,666 --> 00:05:26,500 the culture 104 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,500 and the signs of the times, if you will, 105 00:05:29,533 --> 00:05:32,833 and then he's going to say, because this is what is happening. 106 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:36,800 This is who you are to become and what you are to do. 107 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:40,466 And so in verse one, 108 00:05:40,466 --> 00:05:43,466 second Timothy three, verse one, 109 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,200 but understand this, that 110 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,700 in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 111 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:54,700 That sentence is pregnant with meaning and implication. 112 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:56,866 And so let me unpack it for you. 113 00:05:56,866 --> 00:05:59,066 It says, understand this. Be aware, Timothy. 114 00:05:59,066 --> 00:06:01,333 Keep your eyes wide open. Don't get duped 115 00:06:02,433 --> 00:06:05,700 and into slumber about the times that we're in. 116 00:06:06,233 --> 00:06:08,466 In the last days of the last days. 117 00:06:08,466 --> 00:06:09,600 Well, the last day started. 118 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,200 The day Jesus ascended to heaven. 119 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Now we're in more of the last days than they were then. 120 00:06:15,366 --> 00:06:17,700 And we got some more last days to come. 121 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:20,700 But we are in the last days. 122 00:06:21,366 --> 00:06:22,066 They will come. 123 00:06:22,066 --> 00:06:25,766 Times of difficulty in the Greek 124 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,333 in Scripture there's two words used for time, 125 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,466 and those two words are chronos and kairos. 126 00:06:34,966 --> 00:06:39,500 Chronos is chronological time, seconds to minutes, minutes 127 00:06:39,533 --> 00:06:44,133 to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months, months to years. 128 00:06:44,133 --> 00:06:47,066 You understand chronology, correct? 129 00:06:47,066 --> 00:06:50,800 The second word is kairos, which means seasons or epics. 130 00:06:51,266 --> 00:06:54,400 When people talk about we're in a season of 131 00:06:55,933 --> 00:06:57,566 these are the times up. 132 00:06:57,566 --> 00:06:59,900 That's the Greek word kairos. 133 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:02,900 And what Paul is saying here in the last 134 00:07:03,133 --> 00:07:07,600 days, there will be kairos, there will be seasons, 135 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:13,500 there will be epics, there will be seasons of difficulty. 136 00:07:14,366 --> 00:07:16,600 And when he says the word difficulties using 137 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,600 the Greek word, that means there will be seasons, 138 00:07:19,866 --> 00:07:24,100 epics that are hard to bear and that are trouble. 139 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:24,466 Some. 140 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,766 Embody. 141 00:07:29,766 --> 00:07:31,166 So these are. 142 00:07:31,166 --> 00:07:36,100 This is what the times, the season of the last times are going to be like. 143 00:07:36,833 --> 00:07:39,833 And then in verses two, three, 4 or 5, I'm going to read them. 144 00:07:40,933 --> 00:07:44,266 He talks about the character, the character of the parable 145 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,000 and the character of the parable is not in the times. 146 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,066 The character of the parable is in the people 147 00:07:52,066 --> 00:07:55,066 of the times. 148 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:57,600 In chapter four, he's 149 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,600 going to tell us that in these last times 150 00:08:01,466 --> 00:08:04,866 people will not endure sound doctrine anymore. 151 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,600 They will not endure biblical teaching, biblical doctrine. 152 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:12,700 They won't put up with it anymore. 153 00:08:12,766 --> 00:08:14,666 There will be this epic, 154 00:08:14,666 --> 00:08:18,700 this epic season where people will reject sound doctrine 155 00:08:18,933 --> 00:08:23,966 and what they will desire are things that tickle their ears, he says 156 00:08:25,233 --> 00:08:27,300 that they want to hear. 157 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,300 They'll change the truth and the doctrine of this 158 00:08:30,333 --> 00:08:33,900 to fit what they want to hear, to fit their own narrative. 159 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:37,566 Do you realize this, that most people live in their own echo chambers, 160 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,066 and the only voices they hear are the ones that they speak? 161 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:45,533 And so what will happen in the last days? 162 00:08:45,533 --> 00:08:50,900 He says people will reject this, and they'll just live in their own echo 163 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:55,200 chambers, where the voices they listen to are what they already believe. 164 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,266 That will be contrary to the solid doctrine of this. 165 00:09:01,633 --> 00:09:04,166 And so what he's going to show us here 166 00:09:04,166 --> 00:09:08,966 and we'll talk about this, is this truth that bad people make bad times. 167 00:09:08,966 --> 00:09:11,966 Bad times don't make bad people. 168 00:09:12,333 --> 00:09:15,200 He's going to say in these last days, they'll be coming season, 169 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,766 these epic seasons. 170 00:09:16,766 --> 00:09:20,766 But these seasons are the result of bad hearts. 171 00:09:22,366 --> 00:09:25,366 Bad hearts aren't the result of bad seasons. 172 00:09:25,366 --> 00:09:27,066 And this is something we have to understand, 173 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:29,900 especially in our culture, in our day. 174 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:35,733 And I understand there are legitimately evil systems in institutions. 175 00:09:35,733 --> 00:09:37,666 That is true. 176 00:09:37,666 --> 00:09:39,900 But the thing we have to get clear, 177 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:42,900 according to sound doctrine 178 00:09:43,633 --> 00:09:47,433 is that the problem is with hearts, 179 00:09:47,666 --> 00:09:50,666 not with systems. 180 00:09:50,966 --> 00:09:54,766 And the current culture wants to fix systems 181 00:09:54,766 --> 00:09:57,766 without fixing hearts. 182 00:09:58,533 --> 00:09:59,833 The problem is not 183 00:09:59,833 --> 00:10:02,833 is that bad times make bad people. 184 00:10:03,433 --> 00:10:06,666 The problem is that bad people make bad times. 185 00:10:07,533 --> 00:10:10,533 Sinful hearts make sinful systems. 186 00:10:10,866 --> 00:10:12,233 And we don't. 187 00:10:12,233 --> 00:10:16,766 We don't, fix systems without first fixing individual hearts. 188 00:10:16,766 --> 00:10:20,600 We don't fix systemic until we fix sin. 189 00:10:21,433 --> 00:10:22,933 You follow. 190 00:10:22,933 --> 00:10:26,566 But the current culture says it's the system that's wrong. 191 00:10:26,633 --> 00:10:28,166 It's the systemic system. 192 00:10:28,166 --> 00:10:30,166 It's the institution that's bad. 193 00:10:30,166 --> 00:10:32,533 Let's come up with a new system. 194 00:10:32,533 --> 00:10:35,233 Let's come up with an with all these things 195 00:10:35,233 --> 00:10:39,366 that address the system because it's bad, it's evil, systemic. 196 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,766 That's not the solution. 197 00:10:42,766 --> 00:10:45,866 It will only be fixed when the hearts 198 00:10:47,066 --> 00:10:49,233 are healed. 199 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:51,466 That's biblical. 200 00:10:51,466 --> 00:10:54,166 And so when we focus on the system and don't address 201 00:10:54,166 --> 00:10:57,166 the individual heart, the system stays broken. 202 00:10:57,900 --> 00:10:59,466 You understand? 203 00:10:59,466 --> 00:11:02,466 Because how can a broken heart fix a broken system? 204 00:11:04,233 --> 00:11:07,233 This is the difficulty just 205 00:11:07,633 --> 00:11:10,633 this is the difficulty with socialism. 206 00:11:10,633 --> 00:11:12,833 It's a difficulty with progressivism. 207 00:11:12,833 --> 00:11:15,000 It's a difficulty with communism. 208 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,333 Because all those things say suggest. 209 00:11:17,333 --> 00:11:20,333 If you think about it, the perfect system 210 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,400 will create goodness for the person. 211 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,700 The system is the solution. 212 00:11:27,933 --> 00:11:30,733 And the Bible says no, no, no. 213 00:11:30,733 --> 00:11:33,733 The person has to be redeemed 214 00:11:34,433 --> 00:11:36,900 before the system 215 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:38,200 can be healed. 216 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,566 Does that make sense? 217 00:11:40,566 --> 00:11:42,400 And so right off the bat, 218 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,200 Paul is really pushing against even the culture we live in now. 219 00:11:48,133 --> 00:11:51,900 That is not the times that make people bad. 220 00:11:53,133 --> 00:11:56,133 It's bad people that make bad times. 221 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,200 And he's going to say, okay, this is what it looks like, 222 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,333 this is what it looks like. 223 00:12:01,333 --> 00:12:05,466 And the first thing, let me just read verses two through five for people. 224 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:07,066 He doesn't talk about the system. 225 00:12:07,066 --> 00:12:08,500 He doesn't talk about the times. 226 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:10,133 He said there are bad seasons. 227 00:12:10,133 --> 00:12:13,133 And then he talks about people. 228 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:15,700 For people will be lovers of self, 229 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:20,366 lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, 230 00:12:20,366 --> 00:12:24,733 ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unapproachable, slanderous, 231 00:12:24,866 --> 00:12:29,666 without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, 232 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:33,300 swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 233 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:38,166 Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. 234 00:12:38,866 --> 00:12:41,866 Avoid such people. 235 00:12:44,133 --> 00:12:47,800 The primary condition of the perilous times 236 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:50,833 is the sinfulness of man. 237 00:12:52,833 --> 00:12:55,833 And the sinfulness of man starts 238 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,166 with the characteristic of being a lover of self. 239 00:13:00,466 --> 00:13:02,633 And after the love of self. 240 00:13:02,633 --> 00:13:08,500 He lists 20 evil characteristics that are the result of the love of self 241 00:13:08,633 --> 00:13:14,166 and all of them can be seen in a bad culture, a declining culture, 242 00:13:14,366 --> 00:13:17,866 because of the discrepancy and sinfulness 243 00:13:17,866 --> 00:13:20,866 of the heart. 244 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,266 Love of self 245 00:13:25,266 --> 00:13:30,000 culture is curated to help me, love me, 246 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,333 and I want to be careful 247 00:13:33,333 --> 00:13:36,500 as I teach scripture that I don't. 248 00:13:38,566 --> 00:13:41,566 Divert into my opinion, 249 00:13:41,666 --> 00:13:44,033 but I want to discern the times 250 00:13:44,033 --> 00:13:47,033 and discern Scripture and rightly divide it. 251 00:13:47,033 --> 00:13:50,033 Understanding the times. 252 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:52,533 And comments about times according to Scripture. 253 00:13:52,533 --> 00:13:52,933 And so. 254 00:13:52,933 --> 00:13:56,166 So let me just let me just I want to be careful, but I want 255 00:13:57,233 --> 00:14:00,000 but I wanted to serve our times really, really, really well 256 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,400 because in the last days, people be lovers of themselves. 257 00:14:03,533 --> 00:14:05,366 Our culture is curated 258 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,866 for me to love me. 259 00:14:08,866 --> 00:14:11,066 Our culture is curated for me 260 00:14:11,066 --> 00:14:14,500 to celebrate the self, myself. 261 00:14:15,366 --> 00:14:19,333 And so just I love you, but please hear what I'm saying. 262 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,666 And no, it's coming from from from a heart that cares about you 263 00:14:23,666 --> 00:14:26,766 and cares about your kids and cares about our culture. 264 00:14:26,766 --> 00:14:29,766 Who cares about our church 265 00:14:29,833 --> 00:14:32,300 because our culture is curated 266 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:35,033 to help me, love me. 267 00:14:35,033 --> 00:14:38,400 This is what drives most social media. 268 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,800 Social media is curated 269 00:14:43,466 --> 00:14:45,866 so that I can tell you how much I love me, 270 00:14:45,866 --> 00:14:48,866 and I can convince you to love me as much as I love me. 271 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,766 That's at the heart of social media. 272 00:14:53,766 --> 00:14:55,700 I love me so much. 273 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,300 I want to give you the opportunity to love me as much as I love me. 274 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:03,400 And I love me so much, and I love what I get to do so much. 275 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:04,866 I want to give you the opportunity 276 00:15:04,866 --> 00:15:08,400 to give me thumbs up and like to tell me how much you love me to. 277 00:15:13,333 --> 00:15:15,400 Feel right. 278 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,500 It's designed to celebrate the self 279 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,700 because I love myself and my life so much. 280 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,500 I want to give you the opportunity 281 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,500 to love me and my life as much. 282 00:15:32,633 --> 00:15:32,900 There's 283 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:35,900 a lot of good, and so there can be a lot of good social media, 284 00:15:35,966 --> 00:15:38,966 but we have to be very careful 285 00:15:39,466 --> 00:15:42,700 about how we use it and how we model it, 286 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:46,300 especially for our children. 287 00:15:46,466 --> 00:15:49,466 The love of self, the celebration of self. 288 00:15:49,966 --> 00:15:52,966 It's a very dangerous place to be. 289 00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:57,800 I read a study this past week when I was gone 290 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,733 and I want to share it with you. 291 00:15:59,733 --> 00:16:03,233 The study I read says this that world wide. 292 00:16:06,133 --> 00:16:07,700 Regarding the 293 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,633 the our educational system, math sciences, 294 00:16:12,566 --> 00:16:15,566 and and the like 295 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:19,400 The nations that rank in the top eight. 296 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,100 Can you get some 297 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:24,000 China, Japan, Singapore? 298 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 India. Top eight. 299 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:29,233 The United States 300 00:16:29,233 --> 00:16:32,233 ranks 35th. 301 00:16:32,566 --> 00:16:33,866 But there's one area 302 00:16:33,866 --> 00:16:36,866 the United States in students ranked number one 303 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,500 in self esteem. 304 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:44,933 So what we've done is we created a culture that loves self 305 00:16:44,933 --> 00:16:48,000 so much we might not be very bright, but we sure 306 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 feel good about ourselves. 307 00:16:54,566 --> 00:16:57,566 Right. 308 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,100 And so what I'm saying is 309 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:05,100 we got to be very careful. 310 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,066 My concern is that we have, as Christians 311 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:15,866 who have bought in into the same system 312 00:17:17,566 --> 00:17:20,566 of love, of self, 313 00:17:20,633 --> 00:17:23,600 and we plaster it all over the 314 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,600 our social media, just like. 315 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,833 And we've allowed our kids 316 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:35,233 to we've caused our kids to buy into the same system. 317 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:42,300 And it's the first sign of the end times 318 00:17:43,033 --> 00:17:46,733 of a decaying and decrepit, sinful culture. 319 00:17:47,366 --> 00:17:48,900 Got to be very careful. Yeah. 320 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,400 You okay? 321 00:17:55,533 --> 00:17:57,400 Christian, 322 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,400 change the way you use social media. 323 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,300 Do I need to say any more about that? 324 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:15,200 Is the doctrine clear? 325 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,000 Yes. And out of that, 326 00:18:19,466 --> 00:18:22,466 he list 20 evil results. 327 00:18:22,533 --> 00:18:27,533 And so as we look at these, let's understand the times aren't evil. 328 00:18:28,033 --> 00:18:30,266 Hearts are. 329 00:18:30,266 --> 00:18:33,900 And the evil hearts start with self-love. 330 00:18:34,866 --> 00:18:36,066 Yeah. 331 00:18:36,066 --> 00:18:39,066 And that's why it doesn't look so evil. 332 00:18:41,766 --> 00:18:43,800 Oh, that's why it doesn't look so evil. 333 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:44,466 Because it's not like. 334 00:18:44,466 --> 00:18:47,466 It's like, you know, demonic. 335 00:18:48,633 --> 00:18:51,633 It doesn't look that way. 336 00:18:52,933 --> 00:18:55,700 That's the first sign of an evil, declining culture. 337 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,700 And that leads to this. 338 00:18:59,133 --> 00:19:01,700 The ones who love themselves, 339 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:03,266 then it this lovers of money. 340 00:19:03,266 --> 00:19:05,400 Let me just stop right there. 341 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,166 See, when I love myself, I'm going to love money. 342 00:19:09,266 --> 00:19:12,000 Because money allows myself 343 00:19:13,033 --> 00:19:16,033 all the things my self desires. 344 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,000 You follow. 345 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,766 And the interesting thing about loving money is you don't have to be rich, 346 00:19:20,766 --> 00:19:21,233 love money. 347 00:19:21,233 --> 00:19:24,333 Poor people can love money, which is really dangerous 348 00:19:24,933 --> 00:19:27,100 because some people who are poor love money. 349 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:30,100 They get more poor. 350 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,800 Because we've created this thing called credit. 351 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:37,033 But it's equally as bad when rich people love money. 352 00:19:37,033 --> 00:19:40,633 Because when rich people love money, they become even more materialistic 353 00:19:41,366 --> 00:19:44,366 unless their hearts have been redeemed. 354 00:19:45,233 --> 00:19:46,500 See, money is interesting. 355 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:47,400 Money is amoral. 356 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,066 Money has no morals. 357 00:19:49,066 --> 00:19:51,300 Money is neither good nor bad. 358 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:52,933 Money is money. 359 00:19:52,933 --> 00:19:54,466 Money is amoral. 360 00:19:54,466 --> 00:19:57,733 Money doesn't have a moral good or a moral bad. 361 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:02,400 Money just reveals morals and reveals priorities. 362 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:10,900 Money is an amplifier of what's already there. God 363 00:20:11,966 --> 00:20:14,100 sometimes 364 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,300 money is a sign of God's blessing. 365 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,966 Not all the time, but for the heart that has been redeemed. 366 00:20:20,633 --> 00:20:23,233 God sometimes allows that person 367 00:20:23,233 --> 00:20:27,033 to have a lot of money, because God knows that that redeemed heart 368 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:30,100 is going to use that money to further the kingdom of God. 369 00:20:30,866 --> 00:20:33,133 And sometimes God blesses 370 00:20:33,133 --> 00:20:36,133 some of his kids with the ability to make money 371 00:20:36,866 --> 00:20:39,100 better than some others can, 372 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,300 because he trust them to leverage that money 373 00:20:42,300 --> 00:20:45,100 to kingdom building, not for their own enjoyment 374 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:49,333 and those whose hearts have been redeemed will leverage their finances 375 00:20:49,333 --> 00:20:50,500 towards Kingdom. 376 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:53,500 Because he love Kingdom more than self. 377 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,200 The Bible doesn't say the love of money, like money is the root of evil. 378 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,133 You know what the root of evil is? Satan. 379 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,133 The root of evil is the devil. 380 00:21:02,133 --> 00:21:05,033 What the Bible says is the love of money 381 00:21:05,033 --> 00:21:08,300 is a root of all kinds of evil. 382 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:11,966 And so it comes with some dangers, certainly, 383 00:21:11,966 --> 00:21:14,966 but it's only dangerous for those who love themselves. 384 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:18,366 Because when I love myself, my money is my money that will spend 385 00:21:18,366 --> 00:21:22,233 on my desires rather than leverage it for kingdom advancement. 386 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:24,400 You follow. 387 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,133 Okay, so that's the first thing. 388 00:21:26,133 --> 00:21:27,133 Lovers of money. 389 00:21:27,133 --> 00:21:30,733 Then it says proud, arrogant, abusive, 390 00:21:30,966 --> 00:21:33,966 disobedient to their parents. 391 00:21:34,233 --> 00:21:37,300 Pride and arrogance are the natural result. 392 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:42,500 When I think more highly of me than I think of you, when I love me 393 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:48,266 more than I love you, I will be very proud and I will be very arrogant. Why? 394 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,533 Because I like me more than I like you. 395 00:21:53,633 --> 00:21:56,633 They will be abusive and disobedient. 396 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,400 Well, that makes sense. 397 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,033 Because if I love me more than I love you, I will abuse you. 398 00:22:05,566 --> 00:22:08,300 Because I don't love you. 399 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:10,466 And when I love me more than I love you, 400 00:22:10,466 --> 00:22:14,100 I will disrespect authority that's been given over me. 401 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,633 Because when I love me more than I love the authority 402 00:22:17,633 --> 00:22:20,000 that God has placed over me, I will tell that authority. 403 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,933 No, you got no right to tell me whatever right. 404 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,533 Do you see how all of this flows 405 00:22:27,533 --> 00:22:30,533 out of love of self? 406 00:22:30,566 --> 00:22:33,300 And it's a sign of deteriorating. 407 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:34,500 And it came times. 408 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,500 Do you see that? 409 00:22:38,633 --> 00:22:40,200 There will be ungrateful. 410 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,066 Unholy. 411 00:22:41,066 --> 00:22:44,066 You don't want us to be ungrateful, right? 412 00:22:45,933 --> 00:22:46,900 Not to be grateful. 413 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:48,066 That's what it means. 414 00:22:48,066 --> 00:22:50,400 Okay, you know what it is to be unholy, right? 415 00:22:51,766 --> 00:22:52,900 Not to be holy. 416 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,900 Some of this stuff is really easy to understand. 417 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,500 Heartless and peaceable. 418 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:02,500 Heartless means lacking love. 419 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:05,700 Just seasons where people don't. 420 00:23:05,733 --> 00:23:08,733 They lack love anymore. 421 00:23:08,833 --> 00:23:10,200 Like they certainly don't love God. 422 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,066 And so he talks about. 423 00:23:12,066 --> 00:23:14,466 And a peaceable, 424 00:23:14,466 --> 00:23:15,166 unforgiving. 425 00:23:15,166 --> 00:23:16,933 That's what that means. 426 00:23:16,933 --> 00:23:19,200 These last times will be characterized by people 427 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,600 because they love themself, cannot and will not forgive you 428 00:23:24,533 --> 00:23:27,833 because you love yourself so much, you cannot and will not forgive them. 429 00:23:28,866 --> 00:23:32,566 You'll carry the grudge, will carry the hurt because you love you so much. 430 00:23:32,566 --> 00:23:35,566 They don't deserve. 431 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,600 You understand? 432 00:23:43,966 --> 00:23:46,100 Slanderous. 433 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:47,133 You're not slanders. 434 00:23:47,133 --> 00:23:50,133 Slander is telling untruths. 435 00:23:50,266 --> 00:23:52,766 Show that my opponent is destroyed. 436 00:23:52,766 --> 00:23:55,766 That's what slander is. 437 00:23:55,766 --> 00:23:56,466 Doing are you? 438 00:23:56,466 --> 00:24:00,933 Be old enough to remember when politicians in our country could be. 439 00:24:01,333 --> 00:24:04,200 You could disagree without being disagreeable. 440 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,200 Are you old enough to remember those times? 441 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,200 Yeah. There used to be some civility. 442 00:24:09,366 --> 00:24:12,366 Now you look at the world stage, 443 00:24:12,766 --> 00:24:15,333 it's nothing but slanderous on both sides. 444 00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:15,933 Both sides. 445 00:24:15,933 --> 00:24:20,733 The right and left Republican do are all equally evil, equally at fault in this. 446 00:24:20,866 --> 00:24:25,800 All they want to do is slander, even use untruth to discredit their opponent. 447 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,166 That's all they care about, right? 448 00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:29,733 It's a slanderous soundbite. 449 00:24:29,733 --> 00:24:31,500 It's a slanderous headline. 450 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:33,966 Now, it's easy to see on the political roll. 451 00:24:33,966 --> 00:24:35,133 But how about me and you? 452 00:24:36,833 --> 00:24:37,200 When I'm 453 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,300 willing to pass on truths that I'm not sure of, 454 00:24:41,066 --> 00:24:43,833 untruths, even truths I have no business 455 00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:47,233 passing on to discredit somebody else. 456 00:24:47,233 --> 00:24:49,333 Slanderous. 457 00:24:49,333 --> 00:24:51,666 It's a sign of the, of the decline 458 00:24:51,666 --> 00:24:54,666 in culture. 459 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:58,300 Without self-control. 460 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:02,000 When Paul uses without self-control, 461 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,300 it means that what controls me is stimuli that's outside of me. 462 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,033 It means that I am no longer in control 463 00:25:12,033 --> 00:25:15,300 of my actions, my desires, what I do, who I am. 464 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,800 I'm controlled by things outside of me, 465 00:25:19,366 --> 00:25:22,133 and I have no control on the inside of me. 466 00:25:22,133 --> 00:25:24,933 Here it is in a nutshell, is the inability 467 00:25:24,933 --> 00:25:27,933 to hear no. 468 00:25:29,066 --> 00:25:32,066 It's the inability to hear no, 469 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,466 you will not. 470 00:25:34,466 --> 00:25:37,466 Doesn't that sound like our culture? 471 00:25:37,766 --> 00:25:40,433 Who tells kids no anymore, 472 00:25:40,433 --> 00:25:44,966 with any semblance of authority without their parents pushback? 473 00:25:45,066 --> 00:25:49,000 Will parents tell their kids no, I don't have to give you a reason. 474 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,300 The answer is no, and I'm not. 475 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,000 Count to three and giving you three chances to disobey me like that. 476 00:25:56,966 --> 00:25:58,133 Do you know one of the fruit of the spirit? 477 00:25:58,133 --> 00:26:01,133 Part of that is self-control? 478 00:26:03,266 --> 00:26:06,266 You have to be very careful. 479 00:26:06,466 --> 00:26:07,966 Brutal. 480 00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:10,133 Not loving. Good. 481 00:26:10,133 --> 00:26:12,900 Treacherous. Reckless. 482 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:15,900 Swollen with conceit. 483 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,500 Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 484 00:26:21,033 --> 00:26:23,066 All of this, he wraps up. 485 00:26:23,066 --> 00:26:23,733 He says this. 486 00:26:23,733 --> 00:26:27,000 Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. 487 00:26:27,133 --> 00:26:30,133 They look like good people. 488 00:26:31,166 --> 00:26:34,166 They look like good church folk. 489 00:26:34,466 --> 00:26:34,900 They're. 490 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:37,900 They look like religious people. 491 00:26:38,033 --> 00:26:40,333 And they appear like they're godly. 492 00:26:40,333 --> 00:26:44,000 But they deny the power of godliness, 493 00:26:44,366 --> 00:26:47,966 the power of God to rebuke their error, 494 00:26:47,966 --> 00:26:51,900 to correct their way of life, and to live in a godly way. 495 00:26:52,033 --> 00:26:55,500 They deny that right in that power of God to do that in their lives. 496 00:26:55,633 --> 00:26:58,633 They look good. 497 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,233 But their hearts are far from God. 498 00:27:03,766 --> 00:27:04,966 And to all these people, 499 00:27:04,966 --> 00:27:07,966 Paul's instructions is what? 500 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:13,066 To avoid them. 501 00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:16,033 To avoid them. 502 00:27:16,033 --> 00:27:17,100 We've got to be very careful 503 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:20,100 about the people we let closest to us, 504 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,633 because the ones we like, closest to us 505 00:27:22,633 --> 00:27:27,000 will have a shaping, determining impact on who we become. 506 00:27:27,933 --> 00:27:30,833 Charles Tremendous Jones, you years ago, one of my favorite quote 507 00:27:30,833 --> 00:27:34,300 says this the difference between who you and I are, the person now 508 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,766 and who will be in five years comes in two things. 509 00:27:36,766 --> 00:27:39,200 The books we read 510 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,200 and the people we most closely associate with. 511 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,600 That's the determining factor in 512 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,600 who we between who we are now and who will be in five years. 513 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:49,500 He said it years, decades ago. 514 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,233 It still rings true today. 515 00:27:51,233 --> 00:27:54,633 Be very careful about the people you like closest into your world, 516 00:27:55,033 --> 00:27:57,533 who let talk in your ears. 517 00:27:57,533 --> 00:28:02,133 Paul will say to the church in Corinth, bad company corrupts good character. 518 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,800 This is the Christian parent's 519 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,800 greatest fear and send their kids to college. 520 00:28:10,833 --> 00:28:12,766 Because college professors do not have 521 00:28:12,766 --> 00:28:15,766 your children's best interests at heart, most of the time, 522 00:28:16,833 --> 00:28:19,833 at least doctrinally. 523 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,233 Verse six. 524 00:28:23,233 --> 00:28:26,100 For among them are those who creep in the house schools. 525 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:29,400 This is just kind of bear with me in this. 526 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,433 I'll I'll explain what it means. 527 00:28:31,433 --> 00:28:34,066 They creep into households 528 00:28:34,066 --> 00:28:39,033 and capture weak women burdened with sins and led them astray by various passions, 529 00:28:39,033 --> 00:28:42,600 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 530 00:28:44,166 --> 00:28:46,866 When Paul was writing this to Timothy, the culture was 531 00:28:46,866 --> 00:28:50,766 such as men would be out doing jobs, women would stay home. 532 00:28:50,766 --> 00:28:53,200 That was the culture back then. Okay? 533 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,300 And so he said, what's happening in that culture 534 00:28:57,366 --> 00:29:00,366 is that when these women would stay home 535 00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:04,766 and they would gather together, these nefarious evil men 536 00:29:04,766 --> 00:29:08,000 would infiltrate them and their lives 537 00:29:08,466 --> 00:29:11,166 and do one of two things 538 00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:14,166 either lead them away, 539 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,200 into, romance 540 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,433 and passion, away from their husbands and families, 541 00:29:21,366 --> 00:29:26,533 or would lead them into self-indulgence. 542 00:29:26,533 --> 00:29:31,800 And the love of self is basically what he's saying here is be very careful, 543 00:29:31,833 --> 00:29:34,966 because there are nefarious, evil people out there 544 00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:38,600 who will lead you away into passions. 545 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,600 And this and self-indulgence 546 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,266 and loving yourself more than loving God. 547 00:29:44,266 --> 00:29:45,133 Be very careful. 548 00:29:45,133 --> 00:29:46,600 And that was happening back then 549 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,666 in the context of this community to which Paul was writing. 550 00:29:51,266 --> 00:29:54,966 And he says they they, they seem to be always learning, 551 00:29:54,966 --> 00:29:59,166 but they're unable to come to a knowledge of the truth 552 00:30:00,333 --> 00:30:02,766 because they diverted from this. 553 00:30:02,766 --> 00:30:05,133 And when we divert from this, it's easy 554 00:30:05,133 --> 00:30:08,133 to be convinced of other things. 555 00:30:09,033 --> 00:30:12,733 And then he references verse eight, just as Janice and John as opposed Moses. 556 00:30:12,733 --> 00:30:14,733 So these men also oppose the truth. 557 00:30:14,733 --> 00:30:17,200 Men corrupted in mind, disqualified. 558 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,200 Regarding the faith, but they will not get very far, 559 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,800 for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. 560 00:30:24,066 --> 00:30:27,000 He references. Janice and Jabra's. 561 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,266 This is the only place in Scripture where these two names are listed. 562 00:30:31,666 --> 00:30:34,066 History and tradition tells us 563 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:37,700 that these two, Janice and Jabra's, opposed Moses. 564 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:41,066 These were the two magicians that mimicked 565 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:45,600 the miracles of Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh. 566 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:48,700 When Moses and Aaron were trying to convince Pharaoh 567 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:51,566 by the spear and power of God to let his people go. 568 00:30:51,566 --> 00:30:54,766 And if you remember the story at all in Exodus seven and eight, 569 00:30:55,633 --> 00:30:58,900 when Moses and Aaron first approached Pharaoh, 570 00:30:59,466 --> 00:31:02,500 Moses has the staff frozen on the ground and becomes a snake, 571 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,566 picks it up and it becomes a staff. 572 00:31:05,566 --> 00:31:07,800 And Pharaoh says, big deal. 573 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,566 My magicians can do the same. 574 00:31:09,566 --> 00:31:10,300 They're magicians. 575 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,533 Come out, jettison chambers, take sticks, throw it on the ground. 576 00:31:13,533 --> 00:31:15,600 They become snakes. 577 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,800 And so they replicated God's work. 578 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,500 It looked just like God's work. 579 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,666 But in the end, God said, okay, do it again. 580 00:31:23,666 --> 00:31:25,633 Moses. And then Moses, a snake. 581 00:31:25,633 --> 00:31:26,300 They're snakes. 582 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,300 It's like, ha! God! Gotcha. 583 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,600 And then in the first plague, when Moses 584 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,700 struck the wall of the Nile and turned the water, it turned into blood. 585 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,166 Pharaoh called his magicians Jonathan Chambers. 586 00:31:39,166 --> 00:31:41,833 And they did the same thing. 587 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:44,400 And so they mimic the work of God. 588 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,400 But here's what I want you to understand. 589 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,400 Evil mimicked the work of God. 590 00:31:51,233 --> 00:31:54,266 Here's what we have to get, though Janice Chambers 591 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:59,400 had some authority and had some power, they could only work. 592 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,233 Works of destruction and peril. 593 00:32:02,233 --> 00:32:05,933 They couldn't make that destruction and peril relent and stop. 594 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,733 They couldn't solve anything. They could just create problems. 595 00:32:09,933 --> 00:32:10,633 They couldn't 596 00:32:10,633 --> 00:32:13,633 turn the water back, the the blood back into water. 597 00:32:13,666 --> 00:32:15,700 They couldn't make the frogs leave. 598 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:18,666 They couldn't do any of that. 599 00:32:18,666 --> 00:32:21,966 They mimicked the power, but it only worked for their destruction. 600 00:32:21,966 --> 00:32:24,000 Here's what sin will do. 601 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,933 Sin will have an effect on your life, 602 00:32:26,933 --> 00:32:29,300 but it will only have an effect 603 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,400 of destruction, not of betterment. 604 00:32:33,166 --> 00:32:35,600 We have to understand that 605 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,333 it'll take you places you want to go. 606 00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:38,933 It'll make you stay longer and stay in. 607 00:32:38,933 --> 00:32:42,133 It'll cost you more than you want to spend and it will never relent. 608 00:32:42,166 --> 00:32:45,166 It will always at peril. 609 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,866 Janice and Jabra's 610 00:32:51,866 --> 00:32:55,433 sin will promise better and deliver worse. 611 00:32:58,033 --> 00:33:00,600 And after the second miracle, these magicians 612 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,600 could not replicate the work of God anymore. 613 00:33:04,366 --> 00:33:05,266 They were powerless 614 00:33:06,466 --> 00:33:07,033 because 615 00:33:07,033 --> 00:33:10,833 God started to create things that turn the dust into gnats, 616 00:33:10,833 --> 00:33:15,500 created life out of nothing, and evil, does not have the power to create life. 617 00:33:15,566 --> 00:33:18,566 It only has the power to destroy. 618 00:33:20,333 --> 00:33:22,800 And so we have to be very careful. 619 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,500 And the warning is this 620 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,200 unchecked sin, 621 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,200 what you allow today will dominate your tomorrow. 622 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:35,733 If it's unchecked and unrepentant, what you allow today 623 00:33:35,733 --> 00:33:39,800 will dominate your tomorrow with no hope of rescue. 624 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,800 Apart from Christ. 625 00:33:44,233 --> 00:33:46,033 Let me go on verse ten. 626 00:33:46,033 --> 00:33:47,233 You however. 627 00:33:47,233 --> 00:33:50,833 And so he said, Timothy, this is the season that you're living in. 628 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:54,300 Does that season sound familiar to us? 629 00:33:56,566 --> 00:33:59,466 As far as hearts of people are concerned, 630 00:33:59,466 --> 00:34:01,900 so is that though that's the season you're living in. 631 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:06,366 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, 632 00:34:06,366 --> 00:34:07,500 my faith, my patience, 633 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:11,033 my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me 634 00:34:11,233 --> 00:34:15,366 at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, which persecutions I endured. 635 00:34:15,366 --> 00:34:18,166 Yet from them all the Lord rescued me his way, saying, 636 00:34:18,166 --> 00:34:21,700 he said, that might be the culture, and it may be on the decline, 637 00:34:21,833 --> 00:34:23,500 and it may be decaying. 638 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,400 That may be the case, but you 639 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,400 you must be different. 640 00:34:30,066 --> 00:34:31,533 This is follow. 641 00:34:31,533 --> 00:34:33,833 What's the first thing says, follow my teaching. 642 00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:35,633 That's the word doctrine. 643 00:34:35,633 --> 00:34:37,966 Follow my doctrine. 644 00:34:37,966 --> 00:34:41,400 You're going to hear all these other voices, say all these other things 645 00:34:41,566 --> 00:34:42,700 and speak into yours. 646 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:45,966 All this other stuff don't deferred from this. 647 00:34:45,966 --> 00:34:48,600 This is the doctrine that you have to follow. 648 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,833 Timothy, in order for you to be courageous in a corrupt, decaying culture, 649 00:34:53,933 --> 00:34:57,633 you have to remember this, follow this. 650 00:34:57,633 --> 00:35:01,733 And then he says, follow my conduct, literally my discipline. 651 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,433 Paul was an exceptionally disciplined individual, 652 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:08,533 and part of the problem in our lives 653 00:35:08,533 --> 00:35:11,833 is that we lack discipline right? 654 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,966 We all know things we should do, 655 00:35:15,966 --> 00:35:20,000 shouldn't do, want to do, don't want to do different. 656 00:35:20,033 --> 00:35:21,100 And we don't. 657 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:24,433 Not because we like the power of God by his grace to do it, 658 00:35:24,566 --> 00:35:28,233 because we don't lack discipline to make ourselves. 659 00:35:28,566 --> 00:35:29,933 You understand? 660 00:35:29,933 --> 00:35:33,866 So Paul is saying, follow my doctrine, follow my discipline. 661 00:35:33,933 --> 00:35:36,666 Wouldn't it be great if you and I could say to those, watch us 662 00:35:36,666 --> 00:35:38,400 look and just follow my discipline? 663 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,900 Right, right. 664 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,366 Follow my aim in life. 665 00:35:47,366 --> 00:35:49,766 Literally follow my purpose. 666 00:35:49,766 --> 00:35:52,766 My purpose is kingdom advancement. 667 00:35:53,466 --> 00:35:56,100 That's my purpose. 668 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:58,300 And so we'll do whatever we gotta do 669 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:01,300 for the advancement of the kingdom of God. 670 00:36:02,033 --> 00:36:03,900 Follow my teaching, follow my doctrine. 671 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:05,066 Follow my purpose. 672 00:36:05,066 --> 00:36:06,700 Follow my faith. Follow my patience. 673 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:08,600 Follow my love. Follow my steadfast. 674 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,733 Follow me. 675 00:36:10,733 --> 00:36:13,500 Here's a question I want to ask you. 676 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:14,600 Here's a question. 677 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,566 If someone followed you for the next 24 hours, 678 00:36:17,566 --> 00:36:20,733 would they naturally find Jesus? 679 00:36:28,866 --> 00:36:31,700 From now until 1130 tomorrow, 680 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,800 if they followed you for 24 hours, would they automatically 681 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,800 find Christ? 682 00:36:38,033 --> 00:36:40,000 That's what Paul saying. 683 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000 In a culture that's declining and decaying. 684 00:36:45,366 --> 00:36:47,533 But look at what he says in 685 00:36:47,533 --> 00:36:50,533 and follow my persecutions and sufferings. 686 00:36:51,166 --> 00:36:53,400 Welcome to Christianity. You know. 687 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,733 That happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and I at Antioch. 688 00:37:00,733 --> 00:37:02,833 He was kicked out of the synagogue for talking about Jesus. 689 00:37:02,833 --> 00:37:05,833 He kicked him out of church because he talked about Jesus too much. 690 00:37:06,133 --> 00:37:08,100 They rejected him. 691 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,200 He faced rejection at Iconium. 692 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,666 They want to Stoneham at last year they did stone him 693 00:37:12,666 --> 00:37:15,666 to the point they thought he was dead, in a coma. 694 00:37:16,466 --> 00:37:17,200 Do you know? 695 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,500 Do you know how they do? 696 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,500 You know what they use when they stone people? 697 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,633 Stones. 698 00:37:25,633 --> 00:37:28,266 And they would target the head 699 00:37:28,266 --> 00:37:31,666 and cause such internal damage that a dead person would die. 700 00:37:32,566 --> 00:37:35,533 So they did this to Paul to the point where he was 701 00:37:35,533 --> 00:37:37,200 they thought he was dead, in a coma. 702 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:42,066 So you can imagine what happened to, I imagine, Paul in my sanctified 703 00:37:42,066 --> 00:37:45,266 imagination, as he's writing with these scars 704 00:37:45,866 --> 00:37:49,433 and the eye that doesn't open all the way, and the nose that's still crooked, 705 00:37:49,533 --> 00:37:52,533 and the ear that's kind of lower because it didn't heal right, 706 00:37:52,566 --> 00:37:56,400 and the lip because it's all busted and missing some teeth. 707 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,200 That's what happened. 708 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:02,666 He says, I want you to follow me. 709 00:38:02,666 --> 00:38:03,300 Am I suffering? 710 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:04,166 You know why? 711 00:38:04,166 --> 00:38:07,166 Because out of all those, 712 00:38:07,366 --> 00:38:09,366 out of all those, the Lord rescued me. 713 00:38:09,366 --> 00:38:11,166 Here's what Paul knew that we forget. 714 00:38:11,166 --> 00:38:14,700 As long as I have a command of God and fulfilling that command, 715 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:17,700 I am absolutely invincible. I am. 716 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:20,166 As long as I am fulfilling 717 00:38:20,166 --> 00:38:23,233 the call of God on my life, I am invincible. 718 00:38:23,233 --> 00:38:26,333 Until I have completed that call, I have run the race. 719 00:38:26,333 --> 00:38:29,333 I finish the fight. You. 720 00:38:30,466 --> 00:38:31,666 Do understand. 721 00:38:31,666 --> 00:38:34,200 Understand. 722 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,266 And verse 12, indeed, all who desire to live 723 00:38:36,266 --> 00:38:39,266 a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 724 00:38:40,233 --> 00:38:42,466 You. This is part and part. 725 00:38:42,466 --> 00:38:43,200 Here's the thing. 726 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,966 In America we have trouble with this verse because we get to choose 727 00:38:47,966 --> 00:38:51,866 the level of our suffering and the degree of our persecution. 728 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,233 And most of us, I understand, choose none rather than some. 729 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,533 But he says, the Christ follower 730 00:39:00,533 --> 00:39:04,200 who is living a godly life will face 731 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,833 persecution, will suffer, or it will cost something. 732 00:39:10,966 --> 00:39:12,866 And so the question for me 733 00:39:12,866 --> 00:39:17,566 and you is to what degree am I choosing to suffer? 734 00:39:17,566 --> 00:39:22,100 What degree am I choosing and allowing myself to be persecuted? 735 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:26,500 What Paul says is this is where there is no sacrifice. 736 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,333 There is no discipleship. 737 00:39:29,333 --> 00:39:32,833 Instead of insulate ourselves from every difficulty 738 00:39:32,933 --> 00:39:35,933 and every ill and every threat 739 00:39:35,933 --> 00:39:39,300 and every peril, God has said, you must. 740 00:39:39,433 --> 00:39:43,666 If you're going to follow my son, carry the cross, submit to me, 741 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,833 and you must put yourselves in positions 742 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:50,233 of sacrifice and suffer and persecution 743 00:39:50,233 --> 00:39:53,233 for the sake of the name of Christ is what he says. 744 00:39:53,466 --> 00:39:55,066 Amen, Amen. 745 00:39:55,066 --> 00:39:58,066 And if you desire to live that way, you will choose 746 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,066 some persecution, some suffering. 747 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,666 Amen. 748 00:40:04,666 --> 00:40:08,533 Jesus never said, follow me until it hurts. 749 00:40:10,466 --> 00:40:13,466 He didn't say that. 750 00:40:15,033 --> 00:40:16,533 The truth is this 751 00:40:16,533 --> 00:40:19,666 that if it costs you nothing, it's not Christ like. 752 00:40:23,733 --> 00:40:24,466 Physically. 753 00:40:24,466 --> 00:40:27,466 Reputation, friends, money. 754 00:40:45,133 --> 00:40:48,133 Comfort never produced a disciple. 755 00:40:54,266 --> 00:40:56,500 Some of you need a screenshot that some in art that down. 756 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,500 Some of you put that on your your desk at work, 757 00:41:00,533 --> 00:41:03,000 your desk or your car 758 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000 mirror at home. 759 00:41:08,266 --> 00:41:11,033 Well, evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse. 760 00:41:11,033 --> 00:41:11,933 It's going to get bad. 761 00:41:11,933 --> 00:41:15,066 It's going to get worse, he says, deceiving and B 762 00:41:15,066 --> 00:41:16,666 indices are full in themselves. 763 00:41:16,666 --> 00:41:18,166 Don't be fooled by them. 764 00:41:18,166 --> 00:41:21,766 But as for you, continue and what you've learned 765 00:41:21,766 --> 00:41:24,800 and firmly believe knowing from whom you learned it and how. 766 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,100 From childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings 767 00:41:28,233 --> 00:41:31,633 which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 768 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:34,033 It's bad. 769 00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:35,466 It's going to get worse. 770 00:41:35,466 --> 00:41:37,466 Here's his word, Timothy. 771 00:41:37,466 --> 00:41:39,166 Here's his word flip side. 772 00:41:39,166 --> 00:41:40,100 Here's his word. 773 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:42,266 Oh, you Christ follower. Continue. 774 00:41:42,266 --> 00:41:47,566 You don't back off, don't back up, don't give up. 775 00:41:47,966 --> 00:41:50,400 Don't back down. Continue. 776 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,700 Continue. Continue. 777 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,400 Don't let off the throttle. 778 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:55,933 Don't take it easy. 779 00:41:55,933 --> 00:41:57,600 Don't seek your comfort. 780 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,800 Continue. Continue. 781 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,866 And then he says, don't just continue. 782 00:42:01,866 --> 00:42:04,600 He says continue in the sacred writings. 783 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,600 Continue in the word 784 00:42:07,633 --> 00:42:11,800 because everybody else and everything else are going to divert from this, he says. 785 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,600 Timothy, the only way you're going to be courageous in a corrupt and decaying 786 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,666 culture is if you continue in the word, 787 00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:22,100 continue in this, in the sacred writings. 788 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:27,333 Listen, we cannot love who we do not know. 789 00:42:28,133 --> 00:42:31,633 And the only way we know God and the character of God 790 00:42:31,733 --> 00:42:34,500 is through his revealed word. 791 00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:36,600 It's not through your experience. 792 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,033 It's not through your desire. 793 00:42:39,033 --> 00:42:39,766 It's through 794 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:43,866 the Word of God that we know God and we cannot love who we do not know. 795 00:42:43,866 --> 00:42:46,466 And we cannot know God without knowing His Word. 796 00:42:47,766 --> 00:42:50,566 We gotta get this. 797 00:42:50,566 --> 00:42:52,800 Scripture has always been 798 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,066 of utmost importance for the disciple of Jesus. 799 00:42:56,066 --> 00:42:58,800 It's this, and it's this. 800 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,800 Here, and it's this here. 801 00:43:02,466 --> 00:43:06,566 And when this is here and this is here, it makes me courageous 802 00:43:06,733 --> 00:43:11,366 in the face of a decaying, declining, evil culture that's going to hell. 803 00:43:11,366 --> 00:43:14,233 And how about I'm not worried? Yeah. 804 00:43:14,233 --> 00:43:17,233 I'm courageous. 805 00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:18,933 The reason 806 00:43:18,933 --> 00:43:21,933 this is so important is because this. 807 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,800 Listen to me right now, this is the God 808 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:29,900 breathed breath. 809 00:43:31,066 --> 00:43:34,066 This is God's breath. 810 00:43:34,766 --> 00:43:36,600 Let me prove it to you. 811 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,000 Look at the next verse. 812 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,200 All Scripture is breathed out by God. 813 00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:48,166 This is God's breath. 814 00:43:48,166 --> 00:43:51,166 And this right here, the breath of God, 815 00:43:51,866 --> 00:43:53,766 this right here. 816 00:43:53,766 --> 00:43:56,633 He says it's profitable for teaching. 817 00:43:56,633 --> 00:43:58,300 That's doctrine. 818 00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:00,000 It's good for you for doctrine, 819 00:44:01,133 --> 00:44:04,866 for reproof, correction, and for training and righteousness. 820 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:07,333 So this right here, this is good for you. 821 00:44:07,333 --> 00:44:10,066 For the first, the it has a four fold purpose. 822 00:44:10,066 --> 00:44:12,500 The first is teaching. The first is doctrine. 823 00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:15,133 This is good doctrine. This is solid doctrine. 824 00:44:15,133 --> 00:44:18,366 And what this doctrine will do, the first word is rebuke. 825 00:44:18,366 --> 00:44:19,233 That's what reproof. 826 00:44:19,233 --> 00:44:23,266 It will rebuke, it will rebuke and call out error. 827 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,600 It will rebuke wrong, it will rebuke deceit, 828 00:44:27,733 --> 00:44:32,100 it will rebuke that which is error in my life and in your life. 829 00:44:32,533 --> 00:44:37,700 And when it calls out and rebukes that which is evil and wrong, then it correct. 830 00:44:37,833 --> 00:44:39,633 It says that it was wrong 831 00:44:39,633 --> 00:44:44,333 and this is the right way to live and to become a righteous person. 832 00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:45,733 So this is profitable. 833 00:44:45,733 --> 00:44:49,800 This doctrine is profitable to rebuke what is wrong and evil to me, 834 00:44:49,933 --> 00:44:57,033 and then to give me correction in me so that I am trained for every good work. 835 00:44:57,133 --> 00:44:58,300 This right here. 836 00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:01,300 So Timothy, so church, don't back off of this. 837 00:45:01,333 --> 00:45:04,600 This will teach you good doctrine. 838 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,766 And in that teaching it will rebuke what is wrong. 839 00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:11,700 Listen, in last days people will not contend with good doctor 840 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:14,333 because they don't want to be rebuked. Don't be one of them. 841 00:45:14,333 --> 00:45:16,666 Let this rebuke what is wrong. 842 00:45:16,666 --> 00:45:21,566 So then it could correct and give you the right path so that you will be trained. 843 00:45:21,633 --> 00:45:24,500 Why is it important for you to be trained? Thank you for asking that. 844 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:28,700 You may, verse 17, be complete and equipped for every good work. 845 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,733 When Paul says that this doctrine 846 00:45:31,733 --> 00:45:34,733 will rebuke what's wrong, will correct, 847 00:45:34,766 --> 00:45:38,200 living will train you, you will become complete. 848 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,766 That's the Greek word pathos, which means you will have 849 00:45:41,766 --> 00:45:45,866 special aptitude for God specific uses. 850 00:45:45,966 --> 00:45:50,000 So when you let the Bible, the doctrine, hear, rebuke, 851 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,733 what's wrong, correct, and give you a new good way, train you. 852 00:45:54,733 --> 00:46:00,066 You then become endowed with a special aptitude for the specific use. 853 00:46:00,066 --> 00:46:03,200 God wants you to live and you will be then 854 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,600 be equipped, which means thoroughly furnished. 855 00:46:06,666 --> 00:46:09,666 It implies fully capable to do 856 00:46:09,666 --> 00:46:13,200 all the work God has asked you to do in the face of it. 857 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,800 He came decrepit culture. 858 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,533 Do you understand? Understand. 859 00:46:18,533 --> 00:46:19,800 So able to do. 860 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,833 Fully equipped for every good work. 861 00:46:23,566 --> 00:46:24,900 Ephesians 210. 862 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:29,000 Don't you know, my friends, that you are God's workmanship, created in 863 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,566 Christ Jesus to do good works which he created for you to do in advance? 864 00:46:34,266 --> 00:46:38,566 He's already created you to do good works, and you are fully equipped 865 00:46:38,566 --> 00:46:41,566 and empowered and endowed with the special abilities of God 866 00:46:41,566 --> 00:46:45,933 to be that in a decrepit, decaying, fallen culture. 867 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,566 As you allow the doctrine of God, the Scripture to rebuke the error, 868 00:46:50,566 --> 00:46:55,700 to correct into new and right ways so that he trains us. 869 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,600 And when that happens. 870 00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:04,900 Courageous living 871 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:08,700 and a decaying culture. 872 00:47:08,833 --> 00:47:11,833 That's the clarion call for the disciple you 873 00:47:13,366 --> 00:47:15,666 and every great thing that God wants to do. 874 00:47:15,666 --> 00:47:18,700 He has tied to you and me. 875 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,300 Every great thing God wants to do in this culture, in this world, 876 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:26,300 is tied to people like you and me. 877 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,366 And that is why, dear Christian, 878 00:47:29,366 --> 00:47:32,366 it is so important. 879 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,000 To follow this doctrine, the commands of God. 880 00:47:36,333 --> 00:47:39,233 And that is why, oh dear friend, 881 00:47:39,233 --> 00:47:42,233 who have not given yourself to Jesus. 882 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,166 There is no hope otherwise. 883 00:47:50,366 --> 00:47:53,366 There's no solution otherwise. 884 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,400 Why don't you pray with me? 885 00:48:03,366 --> 00:48:03,666 Father. 886 00:48:03,666 --> 00:48:04,600 Thank you. 887 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,066 Thank thank you for your word. 888 00:48:07,066 --> 00:48:08,800 Thank you 889 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,666 that it does 890 00:48:11,666 --> 00:48:14,666 rebuke and correct and train us 891 00:48:16,466 --> 00:48:19,033 if we allow it to. 892 00:48:19,033 --> 00:48:21,566 And so, father, I thank you that in the midst of a 893 00:48:22,966 --> 00:48:24,133 a culture, in a world that 894 00:48:24,133 --> 00:48:27,133 is in just such peril. 895 00:48:28,233 --> 00:48:31,233 Globally, politically, personally, 896 00:48:31,933 --> 00:48:34,933 in every way. 897 00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:38,033 Thank you that you've called us. 898 00:48:38,033 --> 00:48:40,533 Not in 899 00:48:40,533 --> 00:48:44,066 not in anger and opposition, but just in submission 900 00:48:44,066 --> 00:48:47,133 to you and your word to to be courageous in the midst of it. 901 00:48:49,033 --> 00:48:50,866 Father, we understand that that will only happen 902 00:48:50,866 --> 00:48:54,166 as we allow your word to rebuke error in us, 903 00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:58,500 to give us a correct way 904 00:48:58,966 --> 00:49:02,033 so we can be trained in your way here. 905 00:49:03,166 --> 00:49:06,166 And so, father, I pray you hear these hearts this morning. 906 00:49:06,266 --> 00:49:08,033 And, friends, I want to give you the opportunity 907 00:49:08,033 --> 00:49:11,033 to align yourself with the Word of God. 908 00:49:12,833 --> 00:49:14,366 And maybe you need to ask 909 00:49:14,366 --> 00:49:17,366 Holy Spirit or Spirit 910 00:49:17,533 --> 00:49:20,533 what it mean needs to be rebuked 911 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:22,233 or call it out. 912 00:49:23,733 --> 00:49:24,766 I don't want to be one of 913 00:49:24,766 --> 00:49:27,766 those that rejects the doctrine. 914 00:49:27,866 --> 00:49:29,100 I don't want to be one of those that just. 915 00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,100 Here's what I want to hear. 916 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:35,233 So I give you permission to call out in me 917 00:49:35,233 --> 00:49:38,233 what needs to be rebuked here. 918 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:42,500 And in response to that, correct me. 919 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,000 Correct. 920 00:49:47,366 --> 00:49:50,366 Change my mind. 921 00:49:51,033 --> 00:49:51,466 Tell them. 922 00:49:51,466 --> 00:49:55,733 Say I want to be trained for every good work you've created for me to do. 923 00:49:55,733 --> 00:49:57,533 I want to do it. 924 00:49:57,533 --> 00:50:00,533 I want to be on mission with you, for you. 925 00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:02,400 I want to be invincible. 926 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,400 And I've completed my last command. 927 00:50:07,166 --> 00:50:08,300 And so this morning, father, 928 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:11,300 I submit to you and your word. 929 00:50:11,466 --> 00:50:14,466 I submit to you and your word. 930 00:50:19,066 --> 00:50:22,066 Jesus, we love you. 931 00:50:22,666 --> 00:50:23,900 Father, help us to love you more. 932 00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:27,300 We choose you. 933 00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:29,100 You're the forgiver of our sin. 934 00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:32,400 You're the lover of our soul, the sanctifier of our life. 935 00:50:33,133 --> 00:50:36,133 And we choose you. 936 00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:37,833 In your name I pray. Amen. 937 00:50:37,833 --> 00:50:39,966 Amen. Listen, I love you. 938 00:50:39,966 --> 00:50:42,966 You okay? You all right? 939 00:50:43,066 --> 00:50:43,833 Now, listen. 940 00:50:43,833 --> 00:50:46,766 Paul is going to lay it down one more time in chapter four. 941 00:50:46,766 --> 00:50:49,766 So this week, read chapter three 942 00:50:50,466 --> 00:50:52,566 and read chapter four to get ready for next week. 943 00:50:52,566 --> 00:50:55,433 All right. You can do that. Okay. 944 00:50:55,433 --> 00:50:58,400 Now we're going to have a baptism in a little while. 945 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,466 Over at my house there's 20 plus people getting baptized. 946 00:51:02,433 --> 00:51:04,266 And so come and celebrate that man. 947 00:51:04,266 --> 00:51:05,600 It's going to be a great celebration. 948 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,600 Allies who are saying, okay, here's my public profession. 949 00:51:08,633 --> 00:51:10,200 It needs to be celebrated with each other. 950 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:11,333 I invite you all over. 951 00:51:11,333 --> 00:51:13,233 He'll have a good time together. 952 00:51:13,233 --> 00:51:14,100 We're good. 953 00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:16,200 I told you, I've been off for two weeks. Ali. So as 954 00:51:17,333 --> 00:51:19,100 as if this were anything abnormal. 955 00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:19,700 Right? 956 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,266 So it's just what I do. So let's sing one more song. Ali.