Hello and welcome to the another Behold the 00:00:41.52\00:00:43.70 Lamb Presents program. I'm your host Chris Shelton 00:00:43.82\00:00:47.07 and I'm so thankful that you have allowed us into 00:00:47.28\00:00:49.60 your home for another Bible study today. 00:00:49.82\00:00:52.59 Before we get started I have a question for you, 00:00:52.97\00:00:55.24 have you ever thought about what it means to 00:00:55.49\00:00:58.71 have Christian integrity? Christian integrity, 00:00:58.88\00:01:02.22 I looked up that word "Integrity". I want to share 00:01:02.54\00:01:05.44 some of the definitions that I found in the dictionary. 00:01:05.57\00:01:08.35 It says Adherence to moral and ethical principles; 00:01:08.76\00:01:13.18 soundness of moral character, moral character, 00:01:13.74\00:01:16.82 honesty. The state of being whole, entire, 00:01:17.06\00:01:21.23 or undiminished. Listen to this, it means to be 00:01:21.31\00:01:24.50 sound, unimpaired, or in perfect condition. 00:01:24.74\00:01:28.74 Do those sound like character traits that 00:01:29.28\00:01:31.15 possibly you've heard before, they sound familiar 00:01:31.18\00:01:34.30 to me because I read them in scripture. 00:01:34.50\00:01:36.23 Those were the character traits that Christ was to 00:01:36.69\00:01:39.38 have put in our heart, so that he can prepare you 00:01:39.43\00:01:43.29 for his kingdom. The sad part is that Christian 00:01:43.44\00:01:47.40 integrity is almost extinct in our world today. 00:01:47.47\00:01:52.56 And in today's message which we have entitled 00:01:53.10\00:01:55.83 "Satan Offers You the Kingdoms of This World." 00:01:55.86\00:01:59.15 "Satan Offers You the Kingdoms of This World," 00:01:59.59\00:02:02.50 Pastor Kenny is going to teach us more about the 00:02:02.88\00:02:05.90 Christian integrity. He is gonna teach us and talk 00:02:05.94\00:02:09.19 to us about three sins that perhaps you've not 00:02:09.41\00:02:12.29 even thought about, yet and yielding to just one 00:02:12.40\00:02:15.76 of these sins our first parents has caused this entire 00:02:15.98\00:02:21.16 world to fall into sin for almost 7000 years. 00:02:21.24\00:02:26.05 What misery, what disasters, what heartaches 00:02:26.44\00:02:30.70 we have experienced for so long because of one 00:02:30.73\00:02:34.40 sin, that's the importance of getting sin out of our 00:02:34.95\00:02:39.89 lives. That's how vital it is, because when we get 00:02:39.97\00:02:42.71 to the kingdom they will be no sin. 00:02:42.74\00:02:45.04 But, before we begin today's message we are so 00:02:45.77\00:02:48.17 blessed to be able to go 3ABN's worship center. 00:02:48.26\00:02:51.65 We are going to listen to an instrumental and it's 00:02:52.05\00:02:54.64 entitled Sweet Beulah Land it's by Ron Woolsey, 00:02:54.91\00:02:59.00 Sweet Beulah Land, I hope you're wanting to be there. 00:02:59.32\00:03:02.41 Thank you for joining us we are glad that we can 00:07:34.05\00:07:37.06 spend a little bit of time with you today. 00:07:37.13\00:07:38.72 Wherever you might be around the world, 00:07:38.86\00:07:41.26 we are gonna make this a habit by the way 00:07:41.49\00:07:42.82 that we can come together and study God's word, 00:07:42.91\00:07:44.97 so that we can draw closer to him because we know 00:07:45.44\00:07:47.57 that he is coming soon and we want to be ready, 00:07:47.67\00:07:49.51 by the way thank you for that beautiful song there 00:07:50.12\00:07:52.24 brother Ron Woolsey, Beulah Land, one of my 00:07:52.61\00:07:54.73 favorites, keep up the good work for Jesus. 00:07:54.79\00:07:57.54 But, before we get into out study today and 00:07:57.94\00:07:59.59 it's titled by the way Satan offers you the kingdom 00:07:59.73\00:08:03.11 of this world. My what to me an enticing subject. 00:08:03.74\00:08:08.27 You won't wanna miss it but we need power of the 00:08:08.91\00:08:10.25 Holy Spirit, so I'm gonna invite you to kneel with 00:08:10.50\00:08:12.58 me as we pray together. Loving Father in heaven, 00:08:12.64\00:08:17.47 we truly thank for your word, we thank you for 00:08:17.57\00:08:19.93 your sweet Holy Spirit. As promised that you would 00:08:20.00\00:08:23.26 enlighten our minds and our hearts as we per take 00:08:23.44\00:08:26.34 of the bread of life, oh we pray that you will 00:08:26.37\00:08:28.23 shower us with your blessings and give us 00:08:28.44\00:08:29.90 understanding and wisdom and help us to so order 00:08:30.06\00:08:33.25 our life in harmony with what the scriptures teach. 00:08:33.40\00:08:35.84 Thank you for loving us and for the privilege of 00:08:36.46\00:08:38.38 reaching your precious children around the world, 00:08:38.55\00:08:41.00 we give you praise and honor and glory in Jesus 00:08:41.05\00:08:43.43 name, Amen. Again we're glad that you joined us 00:08:43.47\00:08:48.30 today and we always invite you to be sure and 00:08:48.46\00:08:49.79 take out a pencil and paper and get your Bible 00:08:49.88\00:08:52.61 and you know shut the phones off and everything 00:08:53.07\00:08:55.72 else so that we can just spend some time together 00:08:55.87\00:08:58.07 studying the word, you know the enemy has 00:08:58.17\00:08:59.62 ways of trying to come in and distract us and we 00:08:59.79\00:09:01.81 don't wanna do that and we study about this 00:09:01.85\00:09:03.30 subject because it effect all of us by the way. 00:09:03.51\00:09:06.78 Now again the subject Satan offers you the 00:09:07.32\00:09:09.08 kingdoms of this world. How might you react? 00:09:09.30\00:09:13.25 How might you react? Jesus, remember, 00:09:14.85\00:09:17.53 was offered the kingdoms of this world, 00:09:17.66\00:09:19.71 he was offered this world. All he had to do was 00:09:19.85\00:09:21.46 just bow down and worship the enemy. 00:09:21.50\00:09:23.69 What if you were offered the whole world and 00:09:24.63\00:09:26.46 they say served on a little silver platter how, 00:09:26.83\00:09:29.30 what might you exchange? What might you give? 00:09:30.07\00:09:32.93 We're gonna find out from scripture and there are 00:09:34.45\00:09:35.84 some real warnings there, why? Because it can 00:09:38.32\00:09:39.29 effect every person living on the face of this 00:09:39.30\00:09:40.62 earth and it's effected millions, my I be bold and 00:09:40.84\00:09:44.86 say there would be millions that will go to Christ-less 00:09:44.98\00:09:46.94 graves because they haven't heeded the 00:09:47.02\00:09:48.41 message just like this. If you have your Bibles 00:09:48.44\00:09:51.40 I want you to take and turn with me please, 00:09:51.50\00:09:53.25 to the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 16, 00:09:54.36\00:09:57.05 verse 26. Matthew chapter 16 verse 26, here's one 00:09:57.37\00:10:01.66 by the way that you know real well, as we read 00:10:01.73\00:10:04.38 it I want you to contemplate a little bit with me. 00:10:04.57\00:10:06.88 'Cause it poses some questions, some questions 00:10:07.03\00:10:09.24 that need to be answered. Notice how the Bible 00:10:09.27\00:10:12.31 reads here in verse 26 it says, for what is a 00:10:12.48\00:10:15.57 man profited, if he gained the whole world, 00:10:15.71\00:10:19.15 and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give 00:10:20.01\00:10:24.13 in exchange for his soul? So, there are several 00:10:24.27\00:10:28.09 words here that we need to closely look at here, 00:10:28.24\00:10:30.33 what is the man going to profit? Well again, 00:10:30.70\00:10:33.39 the world operates on profit. All businesses where 00:10:33.79\00:10:38.35 ever you might go, whatever you do in the 00:10:38.41\00:10:40.61 household and many make a lot of profit, 00:10:40.73\00:10:42.63 others maybe just make small. But, every business 00:10:42.78\00:10:45.06 has to make a profit in order to maintain. 00:10:45.29\00:10:47.61 And so when we go to sell something, we go 00:10:48.59\00:10:50.84 you know buy something we even ask question, 00:10:51.16\00:10:52.64 I wonder how much money they're making. 00:10:52.78\00:10:53.96 Something to do with profit. The Bible says what 00:10:54.41\00:10:56.39 is it gonna profit you if you gain the whole 00:10:56.42\00:10:59.46 world but lose your own soul what shall a man give 00:10:59.66\00:11:02.11 in exchange and I think about that word 00:11:02.21\00:11:04.59 exchange there, that means something that is 00:11:04.69\00:11:06.74 equivalent. What do you have to give, 00:11:06.89\00:11:10.65 if this whole world was served to you on that 00:11:11.59\00:11:13.66 platter. You know what the devil would probably, 00:11:14.08\00:11:16.19 do you know what he'd say to you. I don't want 00:11:16.22\00:11:17.88 very much, you don't have to write me out a 00:11:18.03\00:11:20.53 check, but you know what just make a commitment 00:11:20.73\00:11:23.15 to me. I'll bless you, I'll work miracles in your 00:11:23.18\00:11:27.54 behalf, I will do all these things, but you just pay 00:11:27.87\00:11:32.61 attention, just give me your soul and I'll give 00:11:32.64\00:11:36.76 you all these things. Very grateful and thankful the 00:11:36.79\00:11:40.19 Jesus says behold I stand at the door and knock 00:11:40.33\00:11:41.90 and he offers us eternal life. Well friend I'm very 00:11:41.97\00:11:45.24 grateful and thankful about that, but there is a 00:11:45.38\00:11:47.23 question here that's posed and it needs to be 00:11:47.31\00:11:49.25 answered and when I come to to grip with this 00:11:49.41\00:11:51.93 passage right, quick my answer is, there's really, 00:11:52.02\00:11:54.40 there's really no adequate answer to this question. 00:11:54.85\00:11:58.69 Because what do we have to give, all we give is 00:11:59.38\00:12:01.63 just our self, our soul. We don't want to give it 00:12:01.72\00:12:05.48 to the enemy, even though he is promising all of 00:12:05.51\00:12:07.36 these things. Now lets maybe ask just maybe a 00:12:07.42\00:12:12.04 little easier question that we can answer and spend 00:12:12.14\00:12:14.81 a little time on. What's wrong and I've had this 00:12:14.95\00:12:19.28 said by a lot of people they'll say what's wrong 00:12:19.36\00:12:22.18 man you know so and so gonna have some 00:12:22.31\00:12:23.81 money over here, we have houses, we have lands, 00:12:23.84\00:12:26.09 we have some property and what's wrong with 00:12:26.67\00:12:29.06 some of the material things of this world. 00:12:29.52\00:12:31.60 What's wrong with having some? 00:12:32.41\00:12:33.78 And you know my answer would simply be nothing. 00:12:34.89\00:12:39.09 And some of you probably jump out of your seat, 00:12:40.96\00:12:43.21 but let me finish it. Nothings wrong with the things 00:12:44.19\00:12:47.52 that I've just mentioned here as long as they 00:12:47.56\00:12:50.23 don't take the place of your love for God. 00:12:50.31\00:12:52.45 As long as you don't put these things before God. 00:12:53.25\00:12:55.37 God said he, he would, that we'd all prosper 00:12:55.96\00:12:57.45 and certainly be in health, God wants to bless 00:12:57.48\00:12:59.33 us and give us things of this world, 00:12:59.42\00:13:01.54 but you know we can't do it if we're going to put 00:13:01.61\00:13:04.93 them before him, he doesn't want that kind of 00:13:05.03\00:13:07.83 relationship, we don't need that kind of relationship. 00:13:07.92\00:13:10.27 I don't want those kind of relationship, 00:13:10.47\00:13:12.28 as long as they advise it doesn't supplant your love 00:13:13.68\00:13:16.23 for God it's okay, but you know there's still a 00:13:16.75\00:13:19.14 lot of warnings that are given in scripture. 00:13:19.21\00:13:22.40 Lets just share just a few of them just quickly again 00:13:22.75\00:13:25.02 if you're jotting down you have your Bible, 00:13:25.11\00:13:26.45 I want you just jot down here with me 00:13:26.84\00:13:28.15 Philippines 4:11. Because Paul you know gives the 00:13:28.36\00:13:31.11 warning here, he says that we need to learn, 00:13:31.25\00:13:33.53 listen carefully to be content. Now, this is a word 00:13:33.56\00:13:36.94 that's very difficult in the society that we live. 00:13:37.04\00:13:39.95 Most people are not content with what they 00:13:40.76\00:13:42.33 have. And Paul says you need to learn to be 00:13:42.53\00:13:44.49 content with such things as you have. 00:13:44.58\00:13:47.90 Now listen don't worry about what the Jones have 00:13:48.69\00:13:50.77 or what the Smiths have down at the corner 00:13:50.80\00:13:52.11 you follow me. If you do that you will 00:13:52.28\00:13:53.58 always be an unhappy sort of a person. 00:13:53.78\00:13:55.73 But learn to be wherever you're at in the walk of 00:13:56.53\00:13:59.05 life, learn to be content, it does bring some 00:13:59.14\00:14:02.05 happiness and cheer. And with always a prospect 00:14:02.18\00:14:04.87 of things can change or maybe something else 00:14:04.94\00:14:08.14 will happen and God so blesses and gives more 00:14:08.23\00:14:10.37 wonderful, if he doesn't, that's okay too, but, 00:14:10.63\00:14:12.82 notice with the warning because what is a man, 00:14:12.87\00:14:17.23 what is he profit if he gains the whole world? 00:14:17.36\00:14:19.19 And then the Bible goes in and says yeah but let's 00:14:20.13\00:14:21.88 listen these things are okay but there's warnings. 00:14:21.91\00:14:24.07 The warning is you need first learn to be content. 00:14:24.55\00:14:27.41 And that's why we have a lot of crime in society. 00:14:28.30\00:14:30.33 We have a lot of people that say you know going 00:14:30.41\00:14:32.24 across the fence. A lot of people doing different 00:14:32.27\00:14:34.72 things because they're not content with what 00:14:34.81\00:14:36.25 they have, they want what somebody else has. 00:14:36.38\00:14:38.81 And then the Bible by the way goes on. 00:14:39.84\00:14:41.72 In First Timothy 6:7, it's awesome here, 00:14:42.80\00:14:45.52 and I like this here because I've heard it people 00:14:46.04\00:14:48.43 talked about it often. You know they'll say well 00:14:48.56\00:14:52.01 you brought nothing into the world and you're 00:14:52.09\00:14:54.26 certainly not going to take anything out of this 00:14:54.51\00:14:56.56 world. Read that if you haven't read that in a 00:14:56.62\00:14:59.87 while, First Timothy 6:7. So, I think you can 00:14:59.91\00:15:02.62 relate to that when we came into this world what 00:15:02.79\00:15:04.49 did we have? How you didn't even have any 00:15:04.63\00:15:06.88 clothes on did you? We had nothing, and when we 00:15:06.96\00:15:10.13 leave here friends this same thing, 00:15:10.46\00:15:11.82 we have nothing, we can't take anything but our 00:15:11.87\00:15:14.25 character? So, the warning is still giving here that 00:15:14.44\00:15:18.86 don't put too much stock in the things of this 00:15:19.36\00:15:20.84 world because there is something that the devil 00:15:20.92\00:15:22.82 is gonna be using. To turn man's mind from, 00:15:22.85\00:15:27.04 from Jesus to things of this world. And again, 00:15:27.52\00:15:31.62 it's a very serious subject because it's taking 00:15:32.03\00:15:35.38 the world captive. We all want more, we all desire 00:15:35.53\00:15:41.01 more, that's why the countries in the mess that's 00:15:41.04\00:15:45.54 its in today. Of course the Bible goes on, 00:15:45.66\00:15:48.11 First Timothy 6:10, it's very interesting and it says 00:15:48.59\00:15:52.26 the rich, it gives the warning to the rich, 00:15:52.29\00:15:53.86 it says the rich will fall into temptation and a snare 00:15:54.00\00:15:58.40 because they've erred in the faith, notice that, 00:15:59.28\00:16:01.76 and they pierced themselves through with many 00:16:03.27\00:16:06.26 sorrows. It doesn't mean that all rich people are not 00:16:06.75\00:16:10.33 going to be in the team, not at all. Praise God 00:16:10.40\00:16:12.77 for people who love God enough and they have a 00:16:12.86\00:16:14.95 lot and they give a lot, praise the Lord for that. 00:16:15.09\00:16:17.14 But, there are many, the more they have, 00:16:17.54\00:16:19.13 the more that they want to gain in this life. 00:16:19.32\00:16:22.31 And it says here the rich fall into the temptations 00:16:22.90\00:16:26.45 and a snare. You say well I'm not sure of that, 00:16:26.48\00:16:28.89 oh friend Hollywood think about it. 00:16:29.21\00:16:32.55 As you read in the paper and you see, 00:16:34.86\00:16:36.15 you know the magazines and always right here 00:16:36.25\00:16:38.15 you know they have a lot of maybe a lot of 00:16:38.31\00:16:40.71 money but it seem like they're falling in through 00:16:40.78\00:16:42.46 one temptation and one snare, one problem, 00:16:42.73\00:16:44.97 one marriage, one divorce and this, that, 00:16:45.39\00:16:47.16 over and over, and over. Until the end result many, 00:16:47.41\00:16:51.05 who have been very wealthy, they have nothing 00:16:51.96\00:16:53.99 at the end of their life. But, it says they perished 00:16:54.18\00:16:58.18 themselves through with many sorrows 00:16:58.76\00:17:00.74 because sometime when you have money you 00:17:00.89\00:17:02.57 think you can get away with things. And do 00:17:02.74\00:17:04.98 something that the other folks cant do. 00:17:05.14\00:17:07.11 First Timothy 6:11 by the way, another warning 00:17:09.82\00:17:13.43 it says simply said flee these things. Interesting 00:17:13.55\00:17:19.32 here, maybe content, what the Bible says right 00:17:19.46\00:17:22.35 here. We brought nothing in, we are not gonna 00:17:22.44\00:17:24.95 carry anything out, be careful if you have 00:17:25.06\00:17:27.20 a lot of money here right here because hey you 00:17:27.45\00:17:29.97 might perish yourself through with many sorrows 00:17:30.13\00:17:32.88 and then the best thing to do is the Bible gives us 00:17:33.37\00:17:35.71 some real insight here is to flee these things. 00:17:35.90\00:17:40.08 Pretty difficult right, a lot of money involved or 00:17:41.58\00:17:44.57 a lot of things of this world. But, you know what 00:17:44.66\00:17:48.34 I found out, we are surrounded, I mean we are 00:17:48.46\00:17:52.26 surrounded, we're bombarded by worldliness. 00:17:52.52\00:17:55.89 Let me just give you a little food for thought. 00:17:57.35\00:17:59.91 Think along with me if you will. We're surrounded by 00:18:02.20\00:18:06.67 worldliness, and lets use this word here worldlings. 00:18:06.88\00:18:10.81 We are surrounded right, people living in a, 00:18:12.24\00:18:16.61 we live in a worldly world. We also we find 00:18:16.86\00:18:21.64 out here that where there's such a thing as 00:18:21.67\00:18:23.91 worldly associations, worldly friends, 00:18:24.36\00:18:28.00 by the way that's enter worldly attachments. 00:18:28.05\00:18:30.82 You see we are not saying we're bombarded 00:18:32.59\00:18:33.85 by all these words. In fact there is worldly 00:18:34.01\00:18:35.87 attractions. Have you ever been attracted by 00:18:36.29\00:18:39.50 something that's worldly. Have you ever been 00:18:39.65\00:18:44.54 draw in by a worldly attachment, you've been 00:18:44.94\00:18:49.75 in a worldly association, oh friend think about 00:18:50.00\00:18:54.09 it. Let me just let you scratch your head little bit 00:18:54.22\00:18:57.84 there is such thing is worldly employment did 00:18:57.98\00:18:59.71 you know that, worldly employment, 00:18:59.76\00:19:02.32 worldly gain, there is worldly ideas, worldly 00:19:04.92\00:19:08.72 influences, worldly interest, you can be worldly 00:19:08.75\00:19:13.10 minded, there can be worldly pleasures, 00:19:13.27\00:19:15.10 you see how the list can go on and on. 00:19:15.13\00:19:17.19 Worldly policy, worldly principle, oh how it goes 00:19:17.57\00:19:21.84 on and on and on, worldly. But you know the 00:19:22.07\00:19:27.42 Bible has given us plenty of information here. 00:19:27.54\00:19:30.05 Again what's wrong with things of this world? 00:19:30.96\00:19:34.75 Because I know this the more that we have it 00:19:35.55\00:19:37.62 seems, the more that we want and the more 00:19:37.85\00:19:41.40 distracted we become, but we just come to grips 00:19:42.64\00:19:47.45 with the more that we have sometime things 00:19:47.78\00:19:50.03 that are wrong with this world is because they 00:19:50.06\00:19:52.60 draw us what? Away from God. See it may not 00:19:52.76\00:19:59.48 be wrong within itself what you have but it 00:19:59.60\00:20:01.73 takes all your time, all your energy, you have 00:20:01.83\00:20:04.14 nothing left for God. Now how do we know that 00:20:04.27\00:20:08.43 these things of the world are not good for? 00:20:08.46\00:20:10.08 Oh the Bible is very, very clear, turn with me 00:20:10.16\00:20:12.72 you know this, you probably even memorize it, 00:20:12.79\00:20:14.46 bless your heart in the book of First John 00:20:14.50\00:20:16.26 chapter 2 verse 15. First John chapter 2:15 through 00:20:16.29\00:20:21.91 17. Now remember as we read these passage of 00:20:21.97\00:20:24.73 scripture, its good if you haven't read them in a 00:20:24.87\00:20:28.01 while to jot down what we're talking about, 00:20:28.15\00:20:30.94 go back when you have the opportunity and 00:20:31.41\00:20:33.45 read them, read them. The Bible says the warning 00:20:33.61\00:20:37.51 is given love not the come on, I didn't hear 00:20:37.54\00:20:41.40 you, love not what? Love not the world, 00:20:41.65\00:20:43.89 neither the things that are what? That are in 00:20:44.29\00:20:47.01 the world. If any man loved the world, 00:20:47.06\00:20:49.12 notice this, the love of the Father is not in him. 00:20:49.15\00:20:52.75 Now it can't be any cleared than that you can 00:20:53.59\00:20:55.16 deny it if you want to, but the Bible says if 00:20:55.31\00:20:59.80 you love the world. The love of the Father is not 00:20:59.99\00:21:04.62 in you, you realize here that you can't love 00:21:04.78\00:21:07.25 God and mammon. That's what the Bible says in 00:21:07.68\00:21:10.73 the, what is that, in the Matthew chapter 6 00:21:10.79\00:21:13.43 isn't it. Matthew 6:24, otherwise you can and 00:21:13.59\00:21:17.08 manage just means the wealth and the things 00:21:17.20\00:21:19.65 of this world you just, you can't love God and 00:21:19.69\00:21:21.73 love them because you're going to get confused 00:21:21.87\00:21:23.32 on it and more likely we maybe choosing the things 00:21:23.35\00:21:25.81 of this world because we see them now, 00:21:25.85\00:21:27.97 you know we can touch them now and they can 00:21:28.47\00:21:30.10 make us feel better and people will like us 00:21:30.22\00:21:32.54 and you can have lot of friends. 00:21:32.81\00:21:34.56 But Jesus says that we be careful here because 00:21:35.99\00:21:37.66 we're talking about salvation issues here. 00:21:38.46\00:21:40.63 Love not the world, and you know what this 00:21:42.39\00:21:44.52 is interesting? When it says love not, the word 00:21:44.55\00:21:47.24 simply means stop loving. Stop loving what, 00:21:47.30\00:21:54.40 stop loving the world, don't continue to love 00:21:55.12\00:22:00.48 the world. Now lets be a little bolder shall we. 00:22:00.52\00:22:03.86 When you talk about the world you must talk 00:22:05.16\00:22:07.30 about, oh, oh people. We're supposed to love 00:22:07.34\00:22:11.99 people? Yes. But, how about the ungodly people? 00:22:12.21\00:22:20.14 I want you to kind of hang a little bit because 00:22:21.72\00:22:23.11 we will talk a little bit more on as you are 00:22:23.14\00:22:24.46 because some of your minds already I can sense 00:22:24.49\00:22:26.79 that you are already struggling here and you 00:22:26.82\00:22:28.96 are saying well yeah but you we've got just wait 00:22:28.99\00:22:30.73 a minute. It says love not what? It doesn't mean 00:22:30.76\00:22:35.45 the people but what? Their actions and their 00:22:35.86\00:22:37.72 lifestyle, the ungodly, the ungodly people are 00:22:37.79\00:22:40.93 associated with this thing called the world. 00:22:41.11\00:22:43.07 See when these 10 passage were written 00:22:44.20\00:22:46.22 down as inspired by the Holy Spirit. It wasn't that 00:22:46.45\00:22:50.52 you know God was saying here I hate this 00:22:50.98\00:22:53.80 planet, hate this whole, the things that in it. 00:22:53.97\00:22:58.42 The things that draw us away from him. 00:22:59.17\00:23:01.43 And it has to do many times with ungodly, 00:23:01.93\00:23:04.05 and by the way when you talk about the world 00:23:04.80\00:23:06.65 it's those who hate God. But we have to sometime 00:23:06.74\00:23:10.30 with what? Withdraw ourselves from the haters 00:23:10.38\00:23:13.47 of God, because its worldly, worldly associations. 00:23:13.59\00:23:17.39 Jesus said he who is not what? With me is against 00:23:18.34\00:23:22.05 me. We, we very seldom wanna come to grips 00:23:22.18\00:23:25.92 with a fact that if you have a friend that has not 00:23:25.95\00:23:28.64 given their life to Jesus Christ the enemy has 00:23:28.80\00:23:31.53 their mind. The enemy runs that individual, 00:23:31.60\00:23:35.51 it can't be two ways, we just read, you can't 00:23:36.86\00:23:40.24 love God and mammon or wealth or things of 00:23:40.85\00:23:43.09 this world. You can't, anything that you put 00:23:43.16\00:23:47.20 before God becomes your idol doesn't it? 00:23:47.76\00:23:51.08 Sure it does. Now, lets go back and try to make 00:23:51.65\00:23:55.90 it little easier because some of you are 00:23:55.93\00:23:57.31 still the doubting Thomas' here we're, 00:23:57.34\00:23:59.64 I'm saying here we need to be very careful 00:23:59.67\00:24:02.59 about people, when you say worldly people, 00:24:02.75\00:24:06.08 but by the way when you mention the world, 00:24:06.55\00:24:09.18 I'm wanna have to say this here. I'm even 00:24:09.41\00:24:11.42 talking about false teachers. False teachers 00:24:11.62\00:24:16.91 why? Because the enemy's running them. 00:24:17.02\00:24:19.24 The deceivers, but I do believe this, we need to 00:24:20.87\00:24:26.64 have a, be careful now, a hatred for the world, 00:24:26.67\00:24:30.56 notice this. But a real Christian you know will not 00:24:30.74\00:24:33.90 stop trying to help and win the souls of those 00:24:34.43\00:24:37.22 who have fallen in the sand. I hope that makes 00:24:37.26\00:24:40.12 sense to you? We hate the world, but not the 00:24:40.15\00:24:44.08 people who fall in or say people who need help, 00:24:44.18\00:24:46.11 we've got to reach out, we've got to touch them 00:24:46.35\00:24:48.27 and bring them to Jesus Christ. This is what 00:24:48.30\00:24:53.04 we're talking about in the study. What's wrong 00:24:54.03\00:24:56.07 with the things of this world? What's wrong with 00:24:56.13\00:24:59.02 us? What are we choosing today by the way? 00:24:59.26\00:25:01.55 Of course that passage of scripture when you 00:25:04.61\00:25:05.84 read there in First John 2, that was 15 through 00:25:05.95\00:25:08.67 17 and it really begins to get, I'm talking about 00:25:08.89\00:25:11.44 really bold right there it says you know 00:25:11.60\00:25:13.85 it goes on to speak about the lust of the flesh, 00:25:14.76\00:25:17.42 and the lust of the eyes. See flesh things of the 00:25:17.91\00:25:22.25 world and the eyes what they behold and what it 00:25:22.28\00:25:25.62 draws into. There is a warning that's given here 00:25:25.79\00:25:29.03 in scripture. Now remember and the pride of life 00:25:29.36\00:25:33.60 in that passage. Be careful about the pride of life, 00:25:34.00\00:25:37.62 when you say the pride of life that means you are 00:25:38.88\00:25:41.42 satisfied with the goods of this world. 00:25:41.52\00:25:44.65 Oh friend make sure you're not satisfied with 00:25:46.00\00:25:47.60 the goods of this world, they're soon to pass 00:25:47.63\00:25:50.31 away, nothing here is going to last forever. 00:25:50.36\00:25:52.16 We're looking for a kingdom, alright, we're 00:25:52.79\00:25:53.76 looking for Jesus to come. Storing our treasures 00:25:53.85\00:25:56.67 in heaven. Now, there's a point here I don't want 00:25:56.70\00:26:00.18 us to miss. Satan is very, very happy, 00:26:00.21\00:26:07.08 notice this when we yield yourself. We don't have 00:26:08.18\00:26:12.43 to go out on drugs, we don't have to be drunk 00:26:12.54\00:26:14.21 all the time, we don't have to be shooting up, 00:26:14.24\00:26:15.77 is somebody with me? He's happy with you when 00:26:15.93\00:26:20.94 you just simply yield your heart and your soul 00:26:21.20\00:26:23.57 to worldliness. Why? Because he has you, 00:26:23.65\00:26:27.47 we'll get a clear of that in a moment, 00:26:29.06\00:26:30.19 time last here. Remember he has you, 00:26:30.73\00:26:34.31 he can have me, if we yield yourself to what? 00:26:34.82\00:26:37.57 Worldliness, is Satan is what? He's satisfied. 00:26:37.97\00:26:41.65 This becomes very intense in scripture. 00:26:43.84\00:26:46.09 And I want you to turn with me in Matthew 00:26:46.81\00:26:48.09 chapter 4 and you know this very well but please 00:26:48.21\00:26:51.77 notice with me. In Matthew chapter 4, 00:26:52.19\00:26:54.73 we are going to read and you know this 00:26:55.63\00:26:57.01 temptation of Jesus. None of us will ever have 00:26:57.09\00:26:59.91 to go through, none of us will ever have to 00:26:59.96\00:27:03.40 go through what Jesus went through. 00:27:03.58\00:27:05.32 But, dear friends we're going to be tested on 00:27:06.37\00:27:07.70 what I'm talking about today. We're going to get 00:27:07.74\00:27:09.89 some answers here from scripture, we are gonna 00:27:09.99\00:27:13.08 show how Jesus overcame the enemy. In Matthew 00:27:13.24\00:27:16.72 chapter 4, notice what the Bible says. 00:27:18.01\00:27:20.85 Matthew chapter 4 and we're looking through 00:27:21.02\00:27:23.57 will say what 8 through 10, Matthew chapter 4:8 00:27:23.78\00:27:26.71 through 10. Now notice what the Bible says, 00:27:26.83\00:27:29.42 the Bible says this, Again the devil taketh him 00:27:29.47\00:27:32.81 up into an exceeding high mountain, who? 00:27:32.99\00:27:35.01 Jesus, You remember this is the wilderness temptation. 00:27:35.13\00:27:37.15 Showed him the kingdoms of the world, and the 00:27:37.93\00:27:39.61 glory of them; And saith unto him, all these things 00:27:39.64\00:27:42.68 will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and do what? 00:27:42.71\00:27:46.39 And worship me. Notice what Jesus said his 00:27:47.08\00:27:49.88 response? And Jesus said unto him, 00:27:50.26\00:27:52.68 Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, 00:27:53.11\00:27:55.49 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only 00:27:58.99\00:27:59.96 shall thou serve. Jesus answer and said get 00:27:59.97\00:28:03.94 behind me Satan. But, Satan offered Jesus, 00:28:04.02\00:28:06.82 the audacity of the enemy. To the King of the 00:28:06.89\00:28:11.74 universe he says I want you to fall down and 00:28:11.83\00:28:13.54 I want you to worship me and I'm gonna give 00:28:13.75\00:28:15.07 you these things. But, you know I'm so thankful 00:28:15.17\00:28:20.66 for Christ example because it set here for you 00:28:20.78\00:28:23.76 and for me, showing us how we may overcome 00:28:24.15\00:28:27.21 the enemy. And we simply overcome the enemy by 00:28:27.48\00:28:30.90 what? With good scripture, and the first temptation 00:28:30.93\00:28:36.15 he overcame was by every word that perceives 00:28:36.21\00:28:38.68 out of the mouth of God. You and I have to have 00:28:38.78\00:28:41.32 an answer to the enemy when he comes against 00:28:41.50\00:28:43.62 us but it must be not I think or I was told or 00:28:43.72\00:28:46.57 mom said, but you know what it's a thus saith 00:28:46.61\00:28:48.87 the Lord. The enemy has no answer for that. 00:28:48.99\00:28:52.11 This is how Jesus conquered the enemy. 00:28:52.82\00:28:55.70 This is how we can be more than conquerors 00:28:56.04\00:28:58.21 through him. You remember on the sermon on the 00:28:58.24\00:29:00.71 mountain Jesus said for us he said you know 00:29:00.81\00:29:03.08 lay not for yourself treasures on what? 00:29:03.11\00:29:05.36 On this earth, he warns us about putting us interest 00:29:06.08\00:29:11.15 and our affections on things of this earth. 00:29:11.39\00:29:13.76 There is a warning that he gives. Because he 00:29:16.32\00:29:20.74 knows that if we are not careful then our affection 00:29:20.87\00:29:23.77 be greater for the things of earth than for him 00:29:23.99\00:29:27.35 You know, what it shows me he is concerned for 00:29:30.14\00:29:31.28 you and he's concerned for me. And this is 00:29:31.41\00:29:35.83 awesome when you think about what a creator 00:29:35.90\00:29:37.71 how much he loves us. Friend, who are you serving 00:29:37.98\00:29:43.52 today, who are you serving today. Is it possible 00:29:43.58\00:29:48.05 that the God of this world has blinded your eyes. 00:29:49.21\00:29:53.46 That's blinded my eyes so that eternal things 00:29:54.34\00:29:58.21 are no longer valuable, could it be. Does he have 00:29:58.34\00:30:04.51 way that he can blind our eyes? Remember, 00:30:04.66\00:30:08.66 I mentioned a while ago that the things that we love 00:30:08.72\00:30:10.95 more than God becomes what? Becomes our idol, 00:30:11.18\00:30:15.13 in Matthew chapter 10 verse 37 it says he 00:30:16.23\00:30:19.18 that loveth father or mother, or sister, 00:30:19.28\00:30:21.73 or brother more than me is what? Is not 00:30:22.08\00:30:24.96 worthy of me. Our mother, our father, our sister, 00:30:25.97\00:30:32.02 brother, husband or wife. Anything we put 00:30:32.23\00:30:34.00 before God, becomes our idol. Have we lost our 00:30:34.40\00:30:39.64 senses, have we lost our direction. Have we lost the 00:30:39.69\00:30:44.52 value of eternity? An the devil's offering us 00:30:44.76\00:30:48.51 trinkets, we're selling ourselves for things of this 00:30:48.95\00:30:53.31 world that's not going to last. Now I've been know 00:30:53.37\00:30:59.34 sometime to make big statements and I'm gonna 00:30:59.47\00:31:01.05 make some more big ones. But, you know what I'm 00:31:01.11\00:31:03.43 gonna back it up with scripture. I'm gonna 00:31:03.46\00:31:06.14 back it up with scripture. I don't know exactly, 00:31:06.37\00:31:12.34 that is in scripture, how many temptations that the 00:31:12.47\00:31:15.15 devil has. So, I can say to you hundreds and thousands 00:31:15.35\00:31:19.46 of different temptations that the enemy has. 00:31:19.49\00:31:22.43 It may going into the millions, tempting this, 00:31:24.02\00:31:27.05 tempting this going this direction, that direction 00:31:27.18\00:31:29.11 but you know what, everyone of these temptations, 00:31:29.25\00:31:34.09 the hundreds and the thousands come out of a little 00:31:34.12\00:31:37.57 pot of three. We'll call them the big three. 00:31:38.05\00:31:44.21 Out of the three comes all of these other temptations, 00:31:46.61\00:31:49.88 these tests. And you'll say well what could they 00:31:51.25\00:31:54.77 possibly be, well now we quit preaching a little bit, 00:31:55.29\00:31:59.64 and people say we're going to meddle just a little 00:31:59.75\00:32:02.06 bit. But, you know it either is truth or it's not 00:32:02.11\00:32:05.06 truth. It either is right or it's not right. Here is the 00:32:05.23\00:32:11.30 big three things that the devil uses and then he 00:32:11.44\00:32:16.65 responds of in a lot of different directions off of 00:32:17.22\00:32:19.28 these three, we are going to have to gain the victory 00:32:19.49\00:32:22.01 over all three of these. It will shut off all the other 00:32:22.41\00:32:25.06 avenues. The first by the way is appetite, now some 00:32:25.17\00:32:33.00 of you shutting it off already aren't you, 00:32:33.05\00:32:34.60 you can't take it. Don't become offended, 00:32:34.69\00:32:37.56 it either is truth or it's not. And the Bible reveals 00:32:38.08\00:32:41.26 the fact, millions have been overcome by appetite. 00:32:41.34\00:32:48.37 Millions are in the process of it right now, they're 00:32:50.23\00:32:54.65 loosing their grip on eternal life because of their 00:32:54.80\00:32:58.63 appetite. Now that goes in a lot of different 00:32:58.73\00:33:02.06 directions but you need to still think, won't you 00:33:02.28\00:33:04.31 think with me. You are gonna say well how could that 00:33:04.39\00:33:07.16 effect me in eternal life. Let's just a make few 00:33:07.34\00:33:13.21 simple statements here. How could this effect 00:33:13.64\00:33:18.41 through just the gratification of taste? 00:33:18.51\00:33:21.39 What changes take place, what happens, remember 00:33:23.63\00:33:26.92 when someone says the gratification, not many 00:33:27.06\00:33:28.97 people say this. You say boy that thing there 00:33:29.06\00:33:31.84 whatever they're getting, that's kind of a nasty 00:33:31.91\00:33:34.18 thing. Oh! But it tastes good. And you can point out 00:33:34.32\00:33:40.49 in Bible that says well that's unclean, 00:33:40.54\00:33:42.64 God said not to eat it. Oh! But it tastes good. 00:33:42.67\00:33:46.27 You've heard it, it's all about taste, it's not about 00:33:48.39\00:33:53.78 the word of God this is what they're telling us. 00:33:53.81\00:33:55.90 The gratification of diet that means, gratification 00:33:58.82\00:34:01.84 means that which give you pleasure, that which 00:34:01.94\00:34:05.19 gives you an indulgence, millions going to miss out 00:34:06.10\00:34:10.43 on the kingdom. It's very serious business because 00:34:10.55\00:34:14.34 the devil, you see he brought that what? 00:34:14.56\00:34:17.58 Against Adam and Eve in the beginning isn't that 00:34:18.78\00:34:20.29 right? And the world was lost. And the big victory 00:34:20.42\00:34:25.36 is when Jesus came what? He had to go and do 00:34:25.50\00:34:28.09 without food for almost six weeks. To gain 00:34:28.30\00:34:30.60 the victory, for man had fallen. You say well yeah 00:34:30.63\00:34:35.87 but I'm not sure, it's just matter of something 00:34:36.05\00:34:37.78 tastes good or they say oh listen to your friends 00:34:37.94\00:34:40.07 we're talking about, we are talking about here 00:34:40.10\00:34:41.71 overdoing. Being overcome by the appetite, 00:34:42.18\00:34:46.12 letting it get rule and reign as here's what happens. 00:34:46.73\00:34:49.32 It affects our nervous system. 00:34:50.43\00:34:52.31 When we abuse the appetite it affects our 00:34:54.01\00:34:55.73 nervous system. It becomes over excited, 00:34:55.83\00:34:59.38 it becomes overloaded, and then it begins to affect 00:34:59.92\00:35:04.58 our brain power, it deletes our brain power and 00:35:04.97\00:35:08.38 the results makes it impossible for us to think 00:35:08.44\00:35:13.51 calmly or rationally or to balance issues, 00:35:14.18\00:35:18.05 I hope you're still with me. We become unbalanced, 00:35:18.56\00:35:22.87 this is some awesome things and we call 00:35:24.89\00:35:27.05 him sobering things to the point where the devil 00:35:27.11\00:35:29.80 is working with our nervous system, 00:35:29.83\00:35:31.52 to where we can't become, you ever notice people 00:35:32.58\00:35:34.14 are so nervous anymore. They can't seem to 00:35:34.23\00:35:37.91 sit still, allowing things what we're putting in, 00:35:38.43\00:35:42.62 you wanna talk about the children you say oh! 00:35:42.75\00:35:44.28 Boy what is she over there dancing around while 00:35:44.36\00:35:46.36 all the kids are running around, because they're 00:35:46.62\00:35:48.29 just eating the wrong things and oh I tell you we 00:35:48.71\00:35:52.68 become unbalanced and we cannot sort it out, 00:35:52.82\00:35:55.88 here is the big point, we can't sort out spiritual 00:35:56.13\00:35:58.44 things. The devil knows this, that's why he is 00:35:58.54\00:36:01.15 trying to work the world over on what, on appetite, 00:36:01.22\00:36:03.77 because it affects our brain, it affects our choices 00:36:04.20\00:36:06.68 and we cannot discern spiritual things. 00:36:07.07\00:36:10.24 Do you see how the devil's working? You see that's 00:36:12.05\00:36:14.10 a medical fact, that's the proven thing you know that. 00:36:14.13\00:36:16.76 And you know what just, it just doesn't stay 00:36:18.93\00:36:20.71 at that too by the way. Our minds become, 00:36:20.81\00:36:24.96 listen to the word perverted. Our minds because 00:36:25.16\00:36:29.00 of what we take into our system the way that we 00:36:29.09\00:36:31.83 begin to think, we become perverted and our moral 00:36:31.94\00:36:36.20 power is gone think about it. And when our moral 00:36:36.38\00:36:40.71 power is gone we give away to lust, once this happens, 00:36:40.84\00:36:44.81 once this happens, now notice this, once the devil 00:36:45.71\00:36:48.23 has weakened us through this appetite or things 00:36:48.45\00:36:50.28 that are affecting the mind we can't make a good, 00:36:50.35\00:36:52.61 here comes two more things that he begins to use. 00:36:53.34\00:36:56.70 Other words he gives you a big punch and then he 00:36:56.78\00:36:59.52 wants to give you the second one, once he gets 00:36:59.59\00:37:01.08 you where you can't quite make the good intelligent 00:37:01.24\00:37:03.09 decisions again, you can't think properly then 00:37:03.16\00:37:05.67 he's going to give you the second of the big three. 00:37:05.70\00:37:08.24 Which all the other stems out by the way you know 00:37:09.46\00:37:12.03 what it is? Presumption, presumption, some people 00:37:12.10\00:37:17.67 say I don't understand what presumption. 00:37:17.93\00:37:19.34 What you mean being presumption. Presumption 00:37:19.45\00:37:21.90 simply means you're over stepping of some proper 00:37:22.02\00:37:26.22 bounds. There's proper boundaries, this is what you 00:37:26.33\00:37:29.72 say in here, everything's okay. But, we presumptuously 00:37:29.86\00:37:32.54 step outside and say it's going to be okay out 00:37:32.61\00:37:35.11 here may be when the warning is don't go outside 00:37:35.24\00:37:37.32 here, because you're going to get hurt. 00:37:37.43\00:37:38.89 But, we say well no, we can go ahead and do this, 00:37:40.77\00:37:42.58 I think it's going to be alright. People say that by 00:37:42.79\00:37:45.60 the way a lot about well we don't have to really 00:37:45.71\00:37:47.37 be obedient to God's laws or any of his commands, 00:37:47.50\00:37:50.12 because you know we're under grace and well he 00:37:50.22\00:37:51.97 is gonna save us in the kingdom, don't be 00:37:52.00\00:37:55.33 presumptuous. You're overstepping, when God 00:37:55.39\00:37:59.58 said that we need to what, we need to honor 00:37:59.77\00:38:01.30 him, we need to obey him, presumption is taking 00:38:01.44\00:38:06.02 something for granted, oh I'll be alright. 00:38:06.11\00:38:08.90 I don't have to worry about these things, 00:38:09.73\00:38:10.91 overconfidence, oh God is gonna to take me 00:38:11.83\00:38:14.03 to heaven anyway, I know I'll just do the 00:38:14.16\00:38:15.43 best I can, oh he will take me to heaven, 00:38:15.50\00:38:17.43 no that's not true. Don't be presumptuous, 00:38:17.76\00:38:21.27 oh we have a lot of time I can give you a lot of 00:38:21.48\00:38:23.58 examples of people in the Bible that were 00:38:23.74\00:38:25.59 presumptuous. You know what I can start 00:38:25.90\00:38:27.33 with Adam and Eve, presuming upon God's mercy 00:38:27.46\00:38:31.52 that well he won't really do this because he 00:38:31.58\00:38:34.16 loves us too much, don't kid yourself. 00:38:34.19\00:38:35.89 God says no, it means no. Presumption is gonna 00:38:37.48\00:38:44.26 be by the way can be you know if you go 00:38:44.33\00:38:47.91 beyond that which is a known fact. 00:38:48.07\00:38:49.72 This is a known fact, this is what's going to 00:38:51.18\00:38:52.95 happen. You have a bare wire out here and 00:38:53.00\00:38:57.87 you've got one tin running through it, 00:38:58.01\00:38:59.67 then you're gonna say well I know one tin is 00:39:02.16\00:39:03.33 running through there but I think if I stand a 00:39:03.42\00:39:05.01 certain place I can touch it and I'm gonna be 00:39:05.12\00:39:06.61 alright, don't presume on that, you'll probably get 00:39:06.75\00:39:08.99 shocked, I bet you probably get killed. 00:39:09.10\00:39:10.40 Presumption is a common temptation by the way. 00:39:13.69\00:39:16.72 To many professed followers of Jesus Christ. 00:39:17.85\00:39:20.45 This is where the devil's working by the way, 00:39:20.49\00:39:21.91 he's working in the church those who profess 00:39:21.94\00:39:23.71 his name, and they are presuming upon Christ, 00:39:23.87\00:39:27.97 and they fall pray to the old enemy because 00:39:28.93\00:39:31.65 they listen, because they put themselves in 00:39:31.73\00:39:34.27 dangerous positions. Put themselves in a place 00:39:34.67\00:39:37.71 where God would not have them to be that 00:39:37.81\00:39:39.89 they know that they shouldn't be, 00:39:40.02\00:39:41.66 but they still do it anyway. Well God will still 00:39:41.69\00:39:45.10 take care of me. How's God going to take care 00:39:45.24\00:39:49.02 of you if you're not following his direction. 00:39:49.05\00:39:51.06 Remember when he says don't or no that's 00:39:52.50\00:39:54.46 what he means. Now lets go a little bit 00:39:54.87\00:39:58.00 deeper with it, I mean presumptions, 00:39:58.17\00:40:00.13 what he listen. We do that sometime when 00:40:00.24\00:40:03.01 it comes to claiming the promises of God. 00:40:03.05\00:40:05.40 Have you read many of the promises of God? 00:40:05.91\00:40:07.28 I'm claiming this promise of God while you're at 00:40:08.16\00:40:10.66 the same time living in direct disobedience to 00:40:10.70\00:40:14.49 the word of God. There's no use to claim 00:40:14.52\00:40:16.45 those promises because they're not yours. 00:40:16.73\00:40:18.19 But, many presume well I know but I did and 00:40:20.51\00:40:22.72 I know, he knows what I'm. Oh! Friend time 00:40:23.27\00:40:27.79 is too short we need to get right with God. 00:40:27.88\00:40:30.27 We put ourselves in dangerous situation 00:40:33.91\00:40:35.78 sometime Violating the laws of God, 00:40:36.33\00:40:38.85 violating the laws of nature. Oh! Friend, 00:40:39.24\00:40:44.49 using bad judgment, this is being presumptuous. 00:40:47.14\00:40:54.83 Now remember the devil likes it, he likes if 00:40:55.33\00:40:58.31 you'd overstepped because God said no but 00:40:58.53\00:41:00.52 he likes to get you to go over that because 00:41:00.61\00:41:02.52 he knows you're gonna be easy prey. 00:41:02.57\00:41:05.18 Now remember more likely you wouldn't be over 00:41:06.17\00:41:08.48 this presuming if you had already violated the 00:41:08.61\00:41:12.64 appetite or the drugs or the alcohol, 00:41:13.07\00:41:15.11 whatever it might be overeating, eating the 00:41:15.66\00:41:17.26 wrong things, lets just get down to it. 00:41:17.29\00:41:19.30 It weakens your mind and so weaken our 00:41:20.88\00:41:22.22 mind, that we begin to say well yeah but 00:41:22.34\00:41:23.87 God is gonna, oh! Friend he means what he says, 00:41:24.06\00:41:26.86 Jesus said in his second temptation, 00:41:28.98\00:41:32.02 notice this, thou shalt not tempt the Lord 00:41:32.66\00:41:36.46 thy God. Once again we use scripture, 00:41:36.85\00:41:41.10 you are going to have to use it. 00:41:41.54\00:41:42.51 I'm going to have to use it, we're going to have 00:41:42.67\00:41:44.93 to, we're gonna have to walk in the foot 00:41:45.07\00:41:46.46 steps of Jesus Christ. We are gonna have to go 00:41:46.63\00:41:50.11 through these things, these temptations. 00:41:50.16\00:41:52.45 And when the devil brings on a temptation, 00:41:53.95\00:41:55.58 we have to come to the point that we have to 00:41:58.56\00:42:00.78 realize the word that what? We are not gonna 00:42:00.91\00:42:02.61 go that direction. Because God has said, 00:42:02.81\00:42:06.45 Jesus said to the enemy you can't, thou shalt 00:42:07.51\00:42:10.20 not tempt the Lord thy God. And as God's 00:42:10.40\00:42:13.48 children we can't let the enemy tempt us in the 00:42:13.59\00:42:16.26 wrong direction, we have to know what 00:42:16.30\00:42:17.50 truth is. If we do this, if we follow Jesus they'll 00:42:17.68\00:42:22.78 be no presumptuous actions, notice this. 00:42:22.91\00:42:25.81 If we study scripture and if we follow scripture 00:42:26.89\00:42:30.51 dear friends, notice that we will be able to be 00:42:30.62\00:42:33.94 just exactly like Jesus, we'll be able to meet 00:42:34.09\00:42:37.32 the foe and be more than a conqueror through 00:42:37.42\00:42:39.66 Jesus Christ. These are the things that we face 00:42:39.75\00:42:43.02 everyday I want you to hear, it doesn't matter 00:42:43.55\00:42:45.68 how many times you've heard this message, 00:42:45.89\00:42:47.07 it doesn't matter how many times. 00:42:47.21\00:42:48.27 Friends, these are the big three that the 00:42:48.65\00:42:50.55 devil is using today, millions will go to Christ-less 00:42:50.67\00:42:53.71 graves. Many you said it dear friends will not 00:42:53.85\00:42:56.04 make it to heaven because they'll say well it 00:42:56.13\00:42:58.00 doesn't matter, it does matter. Because God 00:42:58.28\00:43:01.69 said it matters. It's time for us to make some 00:43:01.72\00:43:06.06 decided bold changes. Oh! Okay you need to, 00:43:06.26\00:43:12.93 let me give some food for thought. 00:43:13.64\00:43:14.77 Did you know that the enemy Satan, Satan's 00:43:15.90\00:43:19.30 rebellion was a presumptuous act. 00:43:19.73\00:43:22.41 Did you know that, do you think he knew 00:43:24.20\00:43:26.56 God? You think he knew what God was talking 00:43:26.76\00:43:30.06 about? And did he presume that he might get 00:43:30.11\00:43:34.11 away with it. It's a presumptuous act, 00:43:34.26\00:43:37.33 there's no doubt about it, as I mentioned before, 00:43:37.88\00:43:40.34 Adam and Eve presumption. You say well 00:43:40.59\00:43:45.14 I'm still not really sure even though we've 00:43:45.47\00:43:46.92 covered a few things here. Remember presumption 00:43:47.18\00:43:49.55 is simply taking human theories against the 00:43:49.81\00:43:53.68 thus saith the Lord. Human what? Human 00:43:53.87\00:43:58.16 theories, I think is seems like we studied, 00:43:58.43\00:44:02.03 it's what the God says in his word is what's 00:44:02.77\00:44:04.26 important isn't it? The devil was tempting men 00:44:04.35\00:44:12.58 and women and children to disobey God. 00:44:12.61\00:44:15.19 And when he gets them to disobey, he says you know 00:44:18.39\00:44:23.14 when you disobey God's word you are gonna find 00:44:23.26\00:44:26.07 more liberty, you are gonna have more freedom 00:44:26.19\00:44:28.63 that's what he did to Adam and Eve, 00:44:28.73\00:44:29.71 isn't it. No, I just do what God, have you 00:44:29.74\00:44:33.02 ever heard that, oh we don't, we don't have 00:44:33.11\00:44:35.32 to keep the law, God's law anymore. 00:44:35.35\00:44:37.37 I'm hearing the same things over and over. 00:44:41.73\00:44:43.85 That we heard, that we in the very beginning. 00:44:44.26\00:44:46.61 The enemy says you don't have to keep them 00:44:47.23\00:44:48.42 anymore and if you don't go, you don't have 00:44:48.90\00:44:50.59 do that and when you go the other direction 00:44:50.62\00:44:52.63 here, there's gonna be more freedom, 00:44:52.79\00:44:54.29 we're free now. Oh! The devil is a liar, 00:44:54.43\00:44:59.29 how could this happen to so called Christians, 00:45:01.89\00:45:04.46 in our society if we're really studying, 00:45:05.55\00:45:07.25 we're really reading the word of God like we 00:45:07.31\00:45:09.41 should. Let me tell you dear friends you know 00:45:09.57\00:45:12.97 why because man's mind have become darkened. 00:45:13.09\00:45:16.04 We are not thinking spiritually the way that we 00:45:18.56\00:45:21.40 should, we've become confused and you are 00:45:21.63\00:45:24.05 gonna say well how have we become dark and 00:45:24.08\00:45:26.33 spiritually, how we become confused, 00:45:26.56\00:45:28.83 because we have conformed too much to the 00:45:29.80\00:45:31.57 worldly costumes that's what we've done 00:45:32.00\00:45:33.49 dear friends and the influences of this world, 00:45:33.58\00:45:36.35 what? We have fashioned our self like the 00:45:37.15\00:45:39.48 world, we are participating in worldly things all 00:45:39.52\00:45:42.05 the time, well around worldly things and we 00:45:42.08\00:45:44.51 don't know whether it's dark or light anymore. 00:45:44.55\00:45:46.58 That sad, in the time that maybe we backed 00:45:47.96\00:45:52.70 away just a little bit, from some of those 00:45:52.74\00:45:55.83 things that are not Christ like and try to look 00:45:55.89\00:45:57.98 at the total picture. Of how the devil is 00:45:58.05\00:46:00.67 sucking us in, trying to take advantage of us, 00:46:01.09\00:46:04.40 disorientating us. Having us walk around in 00:46:04.71\00:46:08.17 darkness, disoriented, we can't make a good 00:46:08.54\00:46:12.03 decision, we're presumptuous. Then he is 00:46:12.10\00:46:16.84 gonna pull the rug out from under you and 00:46:16.87\00:46:18.75 under me. Don't let him do it, your answer 00:46:18.93\00:46:22.70 is to know the scripture dear friend, 00:46:22.73\00:46:24.32 here is the results by the way that we've been 00:46:24.73\00:46:27.54 custom to the, you know the world and the 00:46:28.24\00:46:29.59 influences of the world you know what happened, 00:46:29.74\00:46:31.87 man has lost his power. The power to discern 00:46:33.52\00:46:36.49 between light and darkness between truth 00:46:36.64\00:46:39.11 and err. Think about that with me, the way 00:46:39.61\00:46:47.23 the enemy's working its very difficult now 00:46:47.35\00:46:49.48 because we're not spiritually mind we've lost, 00:46:49.56\00:46:51.63 have you ever been dizzy, have I ever felt 00:46:52.33\00:46:55.17 faint? Have you ever been disoriented its not 00:46:55.46\00:46:59.06 pleasant but you really can't make an intelligent 00:46:59.18\00:47:01.89 decision you really don't know which way to 00:47:01.92\00:47:03.56 go if you're lost you don't know what to do. 00:47:03.59\00:47:06.06 And the devil says I've got him disoriented now 00:47:06.80\00:47:08.94 because they don't know, they're calling 00:47:09.18\00:47:10.74 light dark and dark light. Oh! Friend don't 00:47:11.17\00:47:15.86 become, don't get that way, spend time in 00:47:15.89\00:47:19.44 the word. We must remember this and I 00:47:19.47\00:47:25.88 want you to jot this down. Those of you home 00:47:25.91\00:47:27.58 by the way at least I want you to really 00:47:27.64\00:47:28.84 listen and put this in your mind. Presumption 00:47:29.23\00:47:32.91 is Satan's counterfeit of faith, did you get it? 00:47:34.46\00:47:41.35 Presumption is Satan's counterfeit of what? 00:47:42.85\00:47:46.37 Of faith. For every truth the devil has what? 00:47:47.26\00:47:51.00 Good, a counterfeit. If we can understand how 00:47:51.34\00:47:55.71 we're led to commit presumptions sins. 00:47:55.88\00:47:59.36 Oh! Dear friends if we can understand it, 00:48:00.91\00:48:07.14 if we can just really figure this out using God's word, 00:48:10.62\00:48:14.91 then we can gain the victory. If we can see how 00:48:16.52\00:48:21.15 the enemy's working, how he's coming against 00:48:21.21\00:48:23.67 us then we can gain the victory through Jesus 00:48:23.77\00:48:26.51 Christ, because you know what the enemy's ever 00:48:26.60\00:48:29.66 present to offer you something of this world, 00:48:29.81\00:48:34.35 a little bit of a gain, a little bit of you know 00:48:34.48\00:48:36.43 things of this world. He's trying to entice man 00:48:36.90\00:48:39.99 into his service. Friend, you have to make a 00:48:40.47\00:48:44.92 choice, I have to make a choice, we cannot be 00:48:45.08\00:48:46.99 indifferent because we're either on his side or 00:48:47.42\00:48:49.00 we're on God's side. He's either enticed you to 00:48:49.44\00:48:51.94 things of this world. Or wanting the things of 00:48:52.16\00:48:54.05 this world, that you're putting all of your 00:48:54.08\00:48:55.42 energy your time, your talents you're putting 00:48:55.50\00:48:57.95 into either God's service or the devil's service, 00:48:58.02\00:49:00.63 which is it? Have you been lured, have you 00:49:01.72\00:49:04.15 been hypnotized? Have you been distracted? 00:49:04.18\00:49:06.76 It was just simply through one fault. 00:49:13.47\00:49:19.41 You remember this man in Bible name Balaam. 00:49:19.85\00:49:21.96 Lets just hit this real quickly, the man Balaam. 00:49:22.98\00:49:24.82 The Bible says there in Second Peter he 00:49:28.62\00:49:29.87 said he loved, listen he loved the wages of 00:49:29.90\00:49:33.85 righteousness. He loved what? He loved the 00:49:34.03\00:49:37.57 wages of righteousness and remember it was 00:49:37.60\00:49:40.85 just through this one fault that Satan gained 00:49:41.01\00:49:45.84 entire control of this man, did you get it? 00:49:46.78\00:49:50.50 Through this what? Somebody say one, 00:49:51.82\00:49:53.78 one fault, that the enemy gained entire control 00:49:54.16\00:49:59.86 of him and you know what be careful he's working 00:49:59.94\00:50:04.11 to gain control of you and me. That's big two 00:50:04.25\00:50:08.34 now the three one quickly in a few moments we 00:50:08.41\00:50:10.28 have left, I want you think about simply is love 00:50:10.38\00:50:12.91 of the world, appetite presumption, 00:50:12.97\00:50:17.16 love of what? Love of the world. We read few 00:50:17.75\00:50:22.79 moments ago where the devil came and he 00:50:22.83\00:50:25.34 offered Christ the kingdoms of this world. 00:50:25.54\00:50:27.70 I'm gonna give you wealth and honor, 00:50:29.28\00:50:31.36 people are going to pay homage to you and 00:50:32.18\00:50:33.34 pleasure and you can relate maybe in this life, 00:50:33.44\00:50:35.28 maybe this has happened to you. And when 00:50:35.42\00:50:38.08 the devil comes to get you, he presents all of 00:50:38.11\00:50:40.27 these things in a retroactive light. It doesn't 00:50:40.33\00:50:44.11 seem like it would hurt it, it just seems pretty 00:50:44.24\00:50:45.78 good at the time we're lured into it, we will be 00:50:45.94\00:50:49.04 deceived. I like Jesus' answer I'm telling you. 00:50:49.35\00:50:55.01 The enemy said you need to fall down and 00:50:56.16\00:50:57.46 worship me, Jesus said, there be no tempting 00:50:57.49\00:51:02.43 of the Lord. Jesus gained entire full victory. 00:51:02.62\00:51:11.71 But, you know what man many times fails. 00:51:13.76\00:51:16.55 In this area where Christ gained the victory 00:51:17.19\00:51:18.97 we fall short. Because you offer somebody a 00:51:19.44\00:51:22.88 little power, a little cloud, we say, a little 00:51:22.91\00:51:25.70 authority and they lose their head, have you 00:51:26.55\00:51:28.80 ever met someone like that oh boy. 00:51:28.89\00:51:30.68 But, if we give in let me just tell you this 00:51:35.33\00:51:36.94 quickly, if we give in to the enemy there is a 00:51:36.98\00:51:40.15 price to pay. There is a price to pay and 00:51:40.32\00:51:45.02 you know what that's interesting the price to 00:51:45.08\00:51:46.62 pay also has three areas that's very, 00:51:46.77\00:51:49.09 very important, we'll try to cover those in just 00:51:49.20\00:51:50.84 a few minutes. If you give into the enemy and 00:51:50.87\00:51:55.28 you want the things of this world, 00:51:55.31\00:51:56.83 you know what he is gonna, this is what he's 00:51:56.93\00:51:58.01 gonna ask you in return. You know we always 00:51:58.04\00:52:01.70 can get it down and say well ask for your 00:52:01.81\00:52:03.35 soul, let me tell you, let's get a little bit deeper 00:52:03.46\00:52:05.38 into it, first all he says I ask for your integrity. 00:52:05.62\00:52:10.26 Integrity, how important is this word integrity, 00:52:12.75\00:52:14.88 friends, it means honesty. It means soundless, 00:52:15.91\00:52:20.89 integrity is holiness. See God's people need to 00:52:22.31\00:52:27.07 have integrity, the world needs integrity, 00:52:27.61\00:52:32.01 but it seems like we've lost that word, we've 00:52:32.18\00:52:33.79 lost that sound. Who has integrity today? 00:52:33.82\00:52:38.80 Who's really honest? Who's really sound? 00:52:38.84\00:52:41.31 The devil just says it, just give me that and I'm 00:52:44.59\00:52:46.63 gonna give you some good things of this world. 00:52:46.74\00:52:48.77 And by the way when you talk about integrity it 00:52:50.83\00:52:52.38 means sincerity. How many of you are really 00:52:52.60\00:52:54.64 sincere in the cause of Christ? How many of you 00:52:54.71\00:52:57.35 are really sincere in your marriage? How many are 00:52:57.45\00:52:59.22 really sincere in your religion? Sincere in your 00:52:59.25\00:53:04.19 job, the world's forgetting this integrity, 00:53:04.31\00:53:08.66 but the devil says I want it, I'm gonna that, 00:53:09.08\00:53:12.42 but I'm gonna give you some good shiny things 00:53:12.56\00:53:14.25 why? The devil wants to separate this word 00:53:16.22\00:53:19.97 integrity from a human being. He knows he 00:53:20.09\00:53:24.43 has us by the way if he can do that. And you know 00:53:24.51\00:53:27.16 why the one of the biggest reasons I was 00:53:27.39\00:53:28.58 reading and study. That the devil asked for your 00:53:28.84\00:53:31.61 integrity. Listen because, listen closely, 00:53:31.64\00:53:36.25 listen, my wife's probably talking, I don't want you 00:53:37.11\00:53:38.78 talking, because integrity is an attribute of God. 00:53:38.85\00:53:45.70 What? Integrity is an attribute of God. 00:53:48.02\00:53:51.77 The devil hates it, and he says I'm gonna take it 00:53:52.54\00:53:55.17 from the people. But, I'm gonna give you something 00:53:55.26\00:53:57.56 in return he says, even though we know this 00:53:57.65\00:54:00.80 is soon to pass away, it is not gonna last. 00:54:00.83\00:54:02.68 I've read something that just thrilled my heart. 00:54:06.45\00:54:09.30 That God will never ever forsake you or me 00:54:12.22\00:54:15.48 while we preserve our integrity. That's good news 00:54:16.19\00:54:21.23 oh friend preserve it today. Number two, 00:54:21.30\00:54:24.38 the devil says I'm wanna give you things of this 00:54:26.37\00:54:27.74 world but I need your conscious. A conscious you're 00:54:28.12\00:54:32.56 gonna have to be darkened and we can read 00:54:32.59\00:54:36.60 in scripture in First Timothy 4:2 it talks about 00:54:36.68\00:54:39.65 here that our conscience is seared with a hot iron, 00:54:39.73\00:54:42.94 you remember that. Come on stay with me, 00:54:43.04\00:54:44.60 we just have a little time left, listen see, 00:54:44.66\00:54:45.83 he said devil said I'm gonna sear that conscience, 00:54:46.12\00:54:49.56 did you get? He is gonna brand that conscience, 00:54:49.62\00:54:52.89 he is going to render us insensible, did you get 00:54:53.12\00:54:56.89 it? The devil is going to render us insensible, 00:54:56.96\00:55:02.46 or else we don't care about anybody else did 00:55:03.13\00:55:04.68 you get it? We don't care about anything or 00:55:04.80\00:55:10.66 anybody else, wow! Branded. And number 00:55:10.72\00:55:17.99 three quickly is selfishness, wow! He says 00:55:18.06\00:55:24.70 you know I want you to listen, not give it up, 00:55:24.73\00:55:27.71 but I want you to indulge selfishness quickly, 00:55:27.91\00:55:31.19 give up your integrity, I give you the world right? 00:55:31.36\00:55:33.26 Give me your conscience, I'm gonna give you the 00:55:33.93\00:55:34.91 things of this world. Indulge that selfishness, 00:55:35.12\00:55:38.08 I'm gonna to give you the world, selfish is dear 00:55:39.16\00:55:42.33 friends is the downfall of Kingdoms. It debars man 00:55:42.46\00:55:47.20 from presenting the truth, the selfish man cannot 00:55:47.23\00:55:49.75 present what the truth is in Jesus Christ. 00:55:49.84\00:55:51.71 And let me tell you quickly God cannot pour out 00:55:51.78\00:55:53.90 his Holy Spirit on a selfish individual, and in God's 00:55:53.95\00:55:58.26 sight selfishness is a grievous sin. And let me tell 00:55:58.35\00:56:03.10 you this quickly as we lose if we accept Satan's 00:56:03.35\00:56:05.53 offer the door is always going to be left open 00:56:05.75\00:56:09.06 for him to come in as he pleases and do what he 00:56:09.22\00:56:12.57 wants to do with all sorts of evil. You don't want 00:56:12.72\00:56:15.85 that do you? No, if we accept his plan, 00:56:15.97\00:56:19.60 this is what he is going to do, the door will 00:56:20.34\00:56:21.41 be open, what shall it profit a man. 00:56:21.48\00:56:23.63 If he should gain the whole world and lose his 00:56:24.45\00:56:27.22 own soul. Friend, the choice is your, 00:56:27.32\00:56:29.08 it's mine today, we must keep your integrity, 00:56:29.23\00:56:32.54 our conscience and turn to Jesus right now before 00:56:33.34\00:56:36.27 it is too late, may God bless you and 00:56:36.35\00:56:38.57 we look forward to seeing you next time. 00:56:38.60\00:56:40.36 Welcome back and we pray that this message 00:56:42.71\00:56:45.31 is truly been blessing to you, it has been an 00:56:45.50\00:56:48.33 encouragement for you to get out God's word. 00:56:48.52\00:56:50.83 Dust it off, read it, get on your knees, pray. 00:56:51.40\00:56:54.59 Ask Christ for that Christian integrity, 00:56:55.12\00:56:57.77 that Christian character to prepare you for 00:56:57.87\00:57:00.60 the Kingdom. I know that many of you have found 00:57:00.70\00:57:03.76 that the things that the devil has been offering 00:57:04.22\00:57:06.15 you in this world. The decisions that you have 00:57:06.24\00:57:08.51 been making. Have not brought you the happiness, 00:57:08.67\00:57:11.78 have not brought you the peace that you 00:57:12.18\00:57:13.97 thought it was going to bring, instead it's 00:57:14.27\00:57:17.64 brought you sadness, heartache, it destroys us, 00:57:17.67\00:57:22.38 it brings about depression and Christ wants you 00:57:22.50\00:57:25.58 to have a sound mind, a peaceful mind. 00:57:25.89\00:57:28.30 It doesn't mean everything in this life is 00:57:28.48\00:57:29.86 always going to be easy. But, he promised you 00:57:30.02\00:57:32.66 something that and he promises that he will be 00:57:32.92\00:57:35.13 there to see through those times of trails and in 00:57:35.23\00:57:38.62 those times of temptation. Christ is calling you 00:57:38.83\00:57:41.64 to look up, to look up to him, to ask him into your 00:57:41.78\00:57:45.85 heart, I'd like to pray with you, I know that 00:57:46.03\00:57:49.13 many of you out there are wanting to have this 00:57:49.26\00:57:51.57 change with him, so would you bow your head 00:57:51.72\00:57:53.71 with me now. Most gracious heavenly Father, 00:57:53.90\00:57:57.38 Lord I just pray the your Holy Spirit will touch 00:57:57.86\00:58:00.42 the ears of each and every person that has been 00:58:00.96\00:58:03.65 listening to the program today. That has been 00:58:03.77\00:58:06.54 listening to your voice speak to their heart. 00:58:06.98\00:58:09.46 Father, give us a new heart, a clean heart, 00:58:09.99\00:58:13.13 a heart of integrity and forgive us of our sins we 00:58:13.63\00:58:17.01 pray Lord, in Jesus name precious and holy name, 00:58:17.20\00:58:20.58 Amen. 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