Hello friends, grab
your Bible and a friend
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and sit back as we
explore God's word together
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on this edition of House Calls.
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Hello and welcome to
the best program on earth
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at this present hour
at least I believe that,
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that's why I'm here
and we gonna thank you
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for tuning into House Calls.
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This is the place
where God says to you,
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get your Bibles, get your pens,
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get your notebook and
hit the record button,
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because you don't want
to miss the topic today,
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it's about "Would you eat that."
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And while you are trying
to figure out what that is,
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welcome again to
House Calls program.
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I'm here with my
good friend Pastor C.A.
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Good to have you here today.
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Always good to
be with you, John.
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And to be in God's house and
to do what God wants us to do
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and that is to be in God's will.
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You know, I'm
pastor being in God's house
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is what we do every Sabbath.
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Repeating God's will is
what we want to be today
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and I'm glad that
you're sitting in with me
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substituting that is for
my good friend, John Stanton.
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And as you know friends,
he is not really a substitute,
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he has quiet a
bit of experience.
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He was my youth
pastor and I'm his pastor,
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so we're paying each other back.
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You're returning
the pain as it where.
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Returning the pain as it where.
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You know, just think about it
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real quick John,
I was talking with
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another good friend
of us, Pastor John Nixon,
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who is the pastor down
at Southern University. Yes.
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That little youth church
produced a number of pastors,
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yourself, John Nixon, Tim
Nixon of Andrews University.
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That was quiet a
little productive youth church
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we had back there.
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That's right and
it's been the place
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where God has shaped
us to be what we're today
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and praise the
Lord for that. Indeed.
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And, you know, we've
a lot of Bible questions
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and lot of things
that we do on this program,
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but before we
dive into anything,
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we're gonna invite
you to bow your heads
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as C.A. has our
prayer for us today.
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Gracious Father, we do thank you
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so very much for
the blessed opportunity
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that we've to lift
up the name of Jesus.
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We thank you for
the study of the word
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and for the truth that we
can find each and every time
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we go into Your words.
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We just ask that
Christ will be seen and felt
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and experienced today
as we answer questions,
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as we look at what
you'll for our lives,
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may we'll be faithful and we
thank you in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. As you know friends,
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your Bible questions are
significant to this program.
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As a matter of fact
always our first half is about
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the Bible questions,
so keep sending them in.
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And if you have any questions,
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you like to send
us by email today,
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you can send those questions
to housecalls@3abn.org,
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that's housecalls@3abn.org
that means organized I believe.
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So try to be as organized
as you can with your thoughts,
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make it shorten to the point.
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Many of you are very
excited and you want to send us
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a doctoral dissertation
and those are very heavy.
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Sometimes we look at
those and it overwhelms us
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and we don't get to it.
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So we do wanna
answer your questions,
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try to be
concise into the point.
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And if you don't have
email we do accept snail mails,
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so send those too.
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We appreciate anything you send,
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but the same rule applies,
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try to write on the
inside of the envelope,
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not so much on the outside.
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And we appreciate it very much.
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You know, we've some
excited viewers and listeners
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to this program and C.A.
sometimes they get carried away
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and before they even,
before the letter gets to us,
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before we open
it, there's a question
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on the outside of
the envelope. Wow!
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And so such is
the case here today
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and I won't really
start with that one,
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but we've a question, this
one comes up from time to time.
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But I think it's good to
revisit at this juncture,
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because somebody may not have
heard the last the last answer.
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The last answer, its entitled
I call it baptizing in the name.
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And let me go and
read the question.
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Go to Mathew 28,
verse 19. Oh yes.
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If you've your Bibles
turned there with us today,
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Mathew 28, we call
that the Great Commission
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and remember it's
not the great omission,
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it includes everybody.
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I really enjoy your program.
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My question is in
Mathew 28, verse 19.
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Jesus told the
disciples to go into all nations
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baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son,
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and of the Holy Spirit to
make disciples of all nations.
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In Luke 24:47 also and
that repentance and remission
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of sins should be
preached in Jesus name.
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So when Peter enacts
to verse 38 said to them
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repent and be
baptized in the name of Jesus
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for the remission of
sins and you shall receive
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the holy gift
of the Holy Spirit.
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Is there any reason
why Peter didn't say
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the name of the
Father, and of the Son,
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and of the Holy Spirit?
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Or did Peter realize that
in the name of the Father,
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and the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
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So the question is in the name,
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let's start up
by reading the text
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and I'll let you
begin with the commentary.
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"Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost"
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that's 19 and then verse 20,
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"Teaches them to
observe all things
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whatsoever I have
commanded you and, lo,
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I am with you all way, even unto
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the end of the age
of the world." Okay.
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Obviously we, we've a
command here to baptize
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in name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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And of course when
the Lord gives us command,
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it's important that we
follow, follow it through.
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And I think verse 20
is important, it says,
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"Teach them to
observe all things."
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All other things are important.
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You know, when you, if
someone is going to join
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something, they need to
know every aspect of it.
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So that, they know
specifically and completely
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what they are joining
and what it's all about,
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and so we've this
command, he'll be baptized in
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name of the Father,
the Son, the Holy Ghost.
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Just because the Father
is not mentioned in that
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particular reference,
it doesn't really mean that
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Peter was omitting it.
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I have to read
the whole text to get
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the complete understanding,
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but He did baptized
in name of the Father,
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rather in the Son
and the Holy Ghost.
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And I assume for a
circumstances whatever
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were in his mind, he
didn't mentioned the Father,
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but that doesn't
mean or wasn't recorded,
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it doesn't accept me if
that wasn't mentioned. Yeah.
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And the other thing
and sometimes this becomes
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such a stumbling block,
there's some churches that
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decide just to baptize
in the name of Jesus. Yeah.
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There are other people
that say when I get baptized,
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I don't want to join a church,
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I just want to be
baptized into Jesus.
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And so name of,
name of, name of,
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so you get down to this
another point of arguing.
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What is the name of the
Father, what is the name of Son,
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what is the name
of the Holy Spirit?
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Well, if you do your
research even further
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to show you that there's
no discrepancy between what
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Peter said and what
commission Jesus gave,
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the word there name of
is from the Greek phrase
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authority of, so
it's not so much.
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Naming them.
Right naming like C.A,
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or John, or Ben, or whomever.
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It's not so much
choosing a particular name
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as much as it is the authority.
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And so when it
comes to authority,
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the authority of Jesus,
and the authority of the
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Holy Spirit, and the
authority of the Father
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is equal across the board.
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Surely, yeah.
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So when I knock on
your door, if somebody says,
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who is it, you know,
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I'm here in the authority of.
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I don't care if
their name is Frank,
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you know, or Jeff.
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The authority behind
them is more important
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than anything else. Yeah.
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And so that's
actually what's happened here,
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there's an authority
factor that's going on.
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And remember, also there's
another phrase which says,
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well, not another
phrase, but another text.
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There is no other
name given among men
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whereby wemust be saved.
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And so when the Bible
says all power the word there
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is Dunamis. Yes.
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Also means all
authority. Authority.
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And when it says
in the name of exusia,
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right there name of. Yes.
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That's ecclesiastical authority,
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which is more
important like we say the Pope.
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Well, what's his name,
it doesn't matter. Yeah.
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The office you're
talking about, yeah.
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Right, so-- Yeah
that's a good point.
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So and it excludes
them from heaven to name
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each particular names
like someone comes to you,
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I'm doing this in the
name of the law. Right.
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You don't have to
mention to Sheriff,
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you don't have
to mention a Deputy,
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doesn't mention
Governor or the Mayor.
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That's the power
that backs what I'm doing,
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when we marry people. Right.
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You say by the
power vested in me.
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I'm giving that
power by the word of God
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and the law of the land. Right.
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That's the power
that, that I carry
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to consummate this marriage.
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So it follows in that
same, in that same vein.
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That's right so, so
friends its less of,
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its less of an issue of
the name that is whether
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you call Him Emmanuel,
whether you call Him Jesus,
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whether you use the phrase,
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the Son of God,
or the Son of Man.
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Whatever you call
Him, you'll discover
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in the Old Testament,
the Old Testament writers at
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particular times referred
to the authority office of
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the Rose of Sharon,
the Lily of the Valley.
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He was also referred
to that Rock was Christ.
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So He's called the Rock
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and then He's also
called the Messiah.
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At that particular
moment what does the Messiah do?
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The Messiah is the anointed one.
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So depending on
whatever is happening
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at that particular moment. Yeah.
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Call His name, Jesus,
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for He'll save His
people from their sins.
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Then few verses down
call His name Emmanuel. Right.
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Meaning God
with us. Yes, surely.
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So the name you
could get into that,
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and there's a particular
denomination that will nail you
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against the wall if you gonna
use the word Jehovah. Yeah.
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Don't want to
mention which one that is.
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But, so that's the whole point,
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it's not about the name per say,
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but it's about the
office in the authority
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which does not
change. Good point.
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Okay, here's another one.
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This one is a very, I
like the phrase you use
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ecclesiastical
obiter dictum is that,
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is that the phrase you use?
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Ecclesiastical obiter dictum.
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Okay, and if you like
an explanation for that
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send the question
to House Calls anyway.
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But this is one
that's really important,
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because first of all,
we're gonna break this
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down into particular sections
and the question begins.
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Does the rapture take
place pre-trib or post-trib?
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Before we get into pre,
post or a millennialism,
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let's first answer the
beginning part of the question.
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Is there a rapture?
And that phrase is used,
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let's go to the
text First Thessalonians.
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This is probably one of
the most commonly used texts,
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when it comes to
talking about the rapture.
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And bear with us
in few moments there,
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because some of
you may be saying.
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Now is there one
or isn't there one.
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Let's just follow through.
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I suspect you're in
First Thessalonians Chapter 4.
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And if you would for us, read.
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Let's read verse 16,
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that's the "rapture" verse,
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that's often
referred to, go for it.
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First Thessalonians 4 verse 16.
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Now I'm in
First Thessalonians 4,
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oh looking at verse 4. Okay.
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"For the Lord Himself
will descend from Heaven
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with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel
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and with the trumpet of God,
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and the dead in
Christ shall rise first."
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And verse 17, "Then we
who are alive and remain shall
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be caught up together
to meet them in the clouds,
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to meet the Lord in the air,
caught up together with them
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in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air
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and so shall we ever
be with the Lord." Okay.
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Couple of things,
you want to begin by
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commenting on that,
or what is this actually.
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Is this an event
that's, is this what we referred
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to as the rapture?
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We don't refer to
this as the rapture. Okay.
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This is the sequence
of events that take place
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at the second
coming of the Lord. Okay.
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So we have, we have a
sequence and an order.
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"The Lord Himself shall descend
from Heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the
archangel and the trump of God,
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the dead in Christ
shall rise first." Okay.
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That's pretty solid,
pretty plain, pretty straight.
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So we've a
resurrection taking place?
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Precisely, "Then we
were to alive and remain
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shall be caught up
together with Him in the clouds
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to meet the Lord in the air,
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and so shall we
ever be with the Lord."
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It doesn't
bespeak a secret coming,
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first of all. Right.
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"The Lord Himself shall descend
from Heaven with a shout,
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the voice of the
archangel and the trump of God.
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That doesn't say to me
anything secret is gonna happen.
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This seems to be a very broad,
a very vocal, a very visual,
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visual event that is
not going to be secret.
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So this sort of puts
to rest the idea that the
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Lord is gonna sneak in
here and sneak some people out.
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We're talking about descending
from heaven with a shout,
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voice of the
archangel, trump of God,
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very loud, very
vocal, very visual.
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So the idea of
secret is dispelled
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by this particular text.
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You know, I'm glad you--that's
the first answer to that.
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First of all, it's not a secret.
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And I know you
used the word rapture,
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but we must
assume, that in many cases
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when people say rapture,
they mean secret rapture,
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because that's the
connotation is taken on.
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Well, when is a
rapture gonna place?
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And you hear many
ministers saying, well,
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it could happen any day now,
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or it could
happen in any moment.
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It could happen
during my sermon,
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half the
congregation could be gone.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It will be said, if the
pastor is still back there
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saying well, the
rapture just happened.
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You know, I missed it.
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He missed it, so-
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Let me just say one
more thing in there John.
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Go ahead. I'm in Revelation 1:7.
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Revelation 1:7
"Behold, he cometh with clouds
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and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him
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and all kindreds of the
earth shall wail because of him,
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even so, Amen."
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So again we get this idea,
this is not a secret event.
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No, not at all.
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This is an event
that ends the age
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in which we'll
not find ourselves.
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So its not going
to be a secret event,
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not a quiet event, not
event that you've got to
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read, see and then look
at see and to find out about.
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Every eye is gonna
see Him, shout, trump,
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voice of the archangel,
this is a very public,
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a very world changing
event and everybody is
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gonna know about
it. That's right.
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As a matter of fact,
it's gonna to be so un-secret,
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As Psalms 50 and verse 3
says, "Our God shall come,
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and shall not keep
silent." Precisely.
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"A fire will devour before Him,
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and it shall be very
tempestuous all around Him."
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So and if you just look
at First Thessalonians 4,
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"The Lord shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
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with the voice,
with the trumpet."
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Audible, very audible,
then the earth changing
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event is a resurrection.
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All over the planet graves
are going to be opening up.
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And then those who are
still alive are gonna be
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caught up together. Yes.
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One's not going
before the other. Precisely.
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The secret
rapture, presupposes that,
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people are just flying off
to heaven like streams of light.
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But that's not
what's going to happen.
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Yeah, and that's a very,
very important point John.
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The idea that we'll be
caught up together. Right.
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Not he goes one
day and you go to next,
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or he goes one time,
or you're flying a plane,
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he disappears and we're
still on a plane wondering
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what's going on
pilot is not here.
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We all are caught up together,
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so when Christ comes
in, comes back He's going to
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take us on mass, dead and alive.
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The dead of course will
be resurrected and the alive
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will continue to be alive,
to glory with Him. That's right.
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Yeah, powerful, powerful text.
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You remember September 11,
something happened in the world
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that had never
happened before at least
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in United States, every flying,
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every plane was grounded.
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There was for the
first time zero air traffic.
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Let me encourage
you when Jesus comes,
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I don't believe there
is gonna be any air traffic
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on the day Jesus comes.
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Because the earth what
happened on September 11th,
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was an event in New York,
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and Washington
D.C. and Pennsylvania,
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some of those
spots around the nation.
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But when the Lord
comes, the world is gonna be in
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such a tribulation,
such a chaotic setting,
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men's hearts
failing them for fear,
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anguish and perplexity. Yes.
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The seas and waves roaring.
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The earth is gonna be
in such a chaotic setting,
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that they're going to
be, I can guarantee you,
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nobody is gonna be
flying a Cessna 182
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and there's gonna be no
747 over the Pacific Ocean
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as folk disappearing from it.
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Yeah. Because this gonna
be, I mean the sun is gonna be
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darkened, the moon
not gonna give its light,
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the stars are going to fall,
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the powers of heaven
is gonna be shaken out of
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their very courses, so
everything that dictates
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our magnetic setting is
gonna be thrown of course.
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There's gonna be no activity
where people are at a bar
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somewhere, or at
a club somewhere,
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or at a
restaurant somewhere saying,
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what's that. Yeah, yeah!
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The Bible gives
indication of an event
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that is so encompassing,
so world altering that
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business life as we know
is going to come to halt.
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Everybody is going to
be looking up prepared
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for this and some of
course, who don't know what this
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is for shadowing, you're
talking about start terror.
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Oh yeah. But for those who--
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Anguish. Who know and
are looking for the coming
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of the Lord, joy inexpressible.
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So everybody is
gonna be in of two camps,
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either you're saying,
Lord, this is our God,
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we waited for Him,
He is going to save us
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or you're going
to be running to the
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rocks and
mountains that fall on him.
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Fall on us and hide
us from the face of Him
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that sits on the throne.
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So, its not gonna be
any banking or any commerce
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and nobody at
the amusement parks,
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or you know, nobody
in theatres or the shows,
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this is going to be an
event that ends the age in
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which we now find
ourselves and everybody is
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going to be aware, it's
not going to be a secret thing.
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That's right, so when you
say and the other thing we
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want to add to that you said,
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post tribulation
or pre-tribulation.
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Well, let's just look
at the word tribulation in
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Mathew Chapter 24 verse 21,
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just to give you an idea of how
difficult this is going to be.
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The Bible itself gives a
context to the tribulation.
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What's it gonna be like?
How bad is it going to be?
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Well notice, what
Mathew 24, 21 says,
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"For then there will
be great tribulation,
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such as has not been
since the beginning of the world
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until this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
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And unless those
days were shortened,
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no flesh would be
saved, but for the elect's sake
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those days will be shortened.
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"So you're
talking about a situation,
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a cataclysmic
earth, an earth gripped
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by as Luke adds his
part, to Luke Chapter 21,
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anguish and perplexity,
a world without answers.
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But let's go
back to the question,
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because does the rapture,
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lets go ahead and
change that phrase now.
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We're gonna use the second
coming as the proper phrase.
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Rather than the
single word, the rapture.
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Does the second
coming take place before
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the tribulation or
after the tribulation.
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Now as a theologian
you know these terms.
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We have post-tribulation,
premillennialist,
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we've pre-tribulation,
premillennialist.
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We and this in context to
the second coming of Christ,
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we're post-tribulation,
premillennialist. Correct.
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Meaning after the tribulation
and before the thousand years.
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Yeah. Jesus is coming in
the middle, expand on that.
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We don't really fall
hard into any category,
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because the terms
are so loaded. Right.
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But to be as pure as
you can that's where we are.
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There is going to be distress.
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There is going to be tribulation
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on the face of the
earth, economic tribulation,
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social tribulation,
ecclesiological tribulation.
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There's going to be an
overturning of the order
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as we now know it. Right.
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These are harbingers
of the coming of Christ.
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Christ will come after
that time. That's right.
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But it is His coming that
inaugurates the millennium,
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so we're technically post-trib
pre-millennium. Exactly.
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But as I said sometimes
those terms are so loaded,
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so you've to explain
your way through them,
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because if you just
say, we're post-trib.
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Some people take that in a
whole other basket of fruit
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that we're not part of. Right.
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But the Bible does give
indication that this world
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is going to be
rocking to and fro.
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We can see the birth
banks as it were even now.
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That's right. But
it's going to get worse.
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As a pastor, you know,
when we were growing up,
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it was, it was not as
tough to pastor a church,
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to get folk to unite
to do things together.
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The world in which the
church finds itself is so
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hostile now and as we
move down towards the closest
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earth history, the world is
just a tougher place to live.
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It's easier to die than
it was when we are kids.
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There are more things
that will take your life.
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There are more
drugs in the world,
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there are more kind of things.
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It's easier to die, it's
easier to get in trouble,
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than it was when we were kids.
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You know, we did, you
had saline shots and when if
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there was a fight between kids.
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Water balloons. You
know, you knuckled it out,
00:21:00.46\00:21:03.18
but now kids are
bringing guns to school,
00:21:03.19\00:21:06.11
you've drugs in
school, it's just,
00:21:06.12\00:21:08.65
it's a harder
world now. That's right.
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You can make one mistake.
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When we were kids and
to be honest with you,
00:21:13.73\00:21:16.64
one of the worse thing is
for young lady to get pregnant.
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You know, if you have
a one night stand with a
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fellow nowadays and all
you cumbereth is a baby,
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you need to praise God,
because you can make one
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mistake that will cost
you a life. That's right.
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You know, there are
diseases now that will
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take your life for one mistake.
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It's a harder world now
and it's gonna get worse
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before Christ comes.
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We can see it in the
world, we can see it in society.
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We're using up our
air, our water, our land
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at an incredible rate.
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We can't keep
on going like this.
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So the world is going to
be rocking and reeling and
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men are at each
others throats and, you know,
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as this program is being taped,
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we've got tsunamis
and we've got earthquakes,
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all of these
things are-- Pre-curses.
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Pre-curses, good word
to the coming of the Lord,
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so there is a
tribulation time upon us,
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that tribulation will end
in the second coming of Christ,
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which will open up
a millennial period.
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Thank God we'll be at
Jesus forever. That's right.
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And we've--that's
wonderful synopsis of it,
00:22:15.29\00:22:20.28
but man I'll tell when it
actually happens just like
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saying, a blizzard is coming.
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Well, being in that blizzard
is completely different story,
00:22:25.53\00:22:29.36
being mushroomed down in
the middle of Utah desert
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with no gasoline
and your car is stuck
00:22:33.29\00:22:36.32
and the next
exit is 45 miles away
00:22:36.33\00:22:39.38
and you've no water, that's
blizzard conditions. Yeah.
00:22:39.39\00:22:43.39
But then it gets down
to perplexity and anguish,
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you are just
marooned you're cutoff.
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So you're at the point
your cell phone is on last
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notch and there's no
transmissions coming in
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and you can't see the
sky, because of the wide out,
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.25
that's blizzard. Yeah, yeah.
00:22:55.26\00:22:57.09
It's like saying fast,
well fast in the sense of
00:22:57.10\00:22:59.22
a guy walking fast or jet
just passing by your house.
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So takes on a completely
different contest when we
00:23:02.71\00:23:06.43
arrived in the middle of it.
00:23:06.44\00:23:07.71
But so if I've to say,
that we don't have to worry,
00:23:07.72\00:23:11.12
but I'm glad you
mentioned this earlier to
00:23:11.13\00:23:12.83
set this stage to use
the word post-tribulation is
00:23:12.84\00:23:16.33
to bring with that an
entire drawer full of meanings,
00:23:16.34\00:23:20.74
because the
phrase tribulation in the
00:23:20.75\00:23:22.91
minds of many means
a seven-year period of,
00:23:22.92\00:23:26.53
you know, the rapture
happening and the antichrist
00:23:26.54\00:23:29.99
making a covenant with the Jews.
00:23:30.00\00:23:35.51
You know,
Jerusalem being rebuilt
00:23:35.52\00:23:37.28
and the sacrificial
system being restarted.
00:23:37.29\00:23:39.38
So we don't bind to that,
the Bible doesn't teach that.
00:23:39.39\00:23:42.25
We're not looking forward
to go on to the Middle East,
00:23:42.26\00:23:44.05
we're looking forward
going to the New Jerusalem.
00:23:44.06\00:23:45.79
Amen, amen.
00:23:45.80\00:23:46.77
I don't care what's
happened in the Middle East.
00:23:46.78\00:23:48.79
I mean, I love the people there,
00:23:48.80\00:23:50.02
but God is not coming, Jesus
is not coming to dwell with us.
00:23:50.03\00:23:54.72
He's coming to take us that
were I am there you maybe also.
00:23:54.73\00:23:58.84
You know the text, it says
00:23:58.85\00:23:59.93
"Then there shall
be great tribulation.
00:23:59.94\00:24:02.27
"Doesn't specify a great
tribulation or particular type,
00:24:02.28\00:24:05.50
but the Bible is talking about
the condition of planet earth
00:24:05.51\00:24:09.32
prior to the second
coming of Christ. That's right.
00:24:09.33\00:24:11.90
So we're talking
about global catastrophe,
00:24:11.91\00:24:14.76
global upturn of the
economical social systems.
00:24:14.77\00:24:19.78
We're talking about
problems across the board
00:24:19.79\00:24:22.38
that can only end with
the coming of the Lord.
00:24:22.39\00:24:25.00
That's right,
cascading. Precisely.
00:24:25.01\00:24:27.73
You know, being at
the top of the water fall
00:24:27.74\00:24:29.16
is one thing is pretty
for being at the bottom,
00:24:29.17\00:24:31.64
something all
together different.
00:24:31.65\00:24:33.26
I don't' think anyone goes
to the base of the waterfall
00:24:33.27\00:24:35.49
and say what a
beautiful waterfall.
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.39
Well the world is
cascading downward.
00:24:37.40\00:24:39.73
Economically we talk
about multiple trillions of
00:24:39.74\00:24:42.17
dollars of debt almost like
it's just a minimal balance.
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.94
And we're talking about
the ozone layer depleting.
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.97
We're talking
about icecaps melting.
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.48
We're talking
about sea levels rising.
00:24:49.49\00:24:51.60
We're talking about
economic, we're talking about
00:24:51.61\00:24:53.96
a possible what they
call it cyber shockwave.
00:24:53.97\00:24:58.40
There is so much on
horizon, that if you look at it,
00:24:58.41\00:25:01.23
you'll be afraid to get out
of your house in the morning.
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You know, this question it says,
00:25:02.95\00:25:04.61
has thrown a sort
of down this quarter,
00:25:04.62\00:25:06.18
but you look at the problems
that we have and man solutions
00:25:06.19\00:25:09.60
and each one of them
simply creates another problem.
00:25:09.61\00:25:12.19
I was listening the
other day about this one town,
00:25:12.20\00:25:15.92
where they were having
for several years attack of
00:25:15.93\00:25:20.33
certain beetles and bugs
that were destroying the crops.
00:25:20.34\00:25:22.69
And so they just
increased their pesticide use.
00:25:22.70\00:25:26.15
Well now the pesticides
have leached down into that
00:25:26.16\00:25:30.63
water systems and so
they're getting babies born
00:25:30.64\00:25:34.39
with defects
because of pesticides
00:25:34.40\00:25:38.95
in now the food chain.
00:25:38.96\00:25:40.43
So you correct one problem
and you get another problem
00:25:40.44\00:25:44.12
and then you try to
correct that problem
00:25:44.13\00:25:45.42
and you get another problem,
00:25:45.43\00:25:46.55
because all of our answers,
00:25:46.56\00:25:48.81
pastor are just sort
of stop gap measures,
00:25:48.82\00:25:50.64
we don't have the
ultimate solution.
00:25:50.65\00:25:53.21
And so we're
heaping, we're getting into
00:25:53.22\00:25:56.42
problems that we simply
don't have answers for. Right
00:25:56.43\00:25:59.09
There's no way
to get us out of it.
00:25:59.10\00:26:02.12
We're using fossil
fuels, they're coming to an end.
00:26:02.13\00:26:05.55
They're not going
to be there forever.
00:26:05.56\00:26:07.37
We're heating up our earth,
00:26:07.38\00:26:08.75
yet we got to drive, you know,
00:26:08.76\00:26:11.08
who's gonna park their car,
00:26:11.09\00:26:13.12
I got to go to the
market to get food.
00:26:13.13\00:26:14.31
So we've got this cycle
of problems that we simply
00:26:14.32\00:26:17.03
have no answer for.
00:26:17.04\00:26:18.12
And that's what the Bible says,
00:26:18.13\00:26:19.26
God is going to cut
this in short. That's right.
00:26:19.27\00:26:21.30
Because if He doesn't,
humanity will destroy itself.
00:26:21.31\00:26:24.85
You know, we'll just cease
00:26:24.86\00:26:27.43
our own existence
by our own genius.
00:26:27.44\00:26:31.81
By share, by
exhaustion of natural resource.
00:26:31.82\00:26:34.54
Yeah, we're just
running out of solution,
00:26:34.55\00:26:35.52
so God saying, I
got to cut this short,
00:26:35.53\00:26:37.06
these people are just
gonna wipe themselves out.
00:26:37.07\00:26:38.79
That's right. There
will be nobody left to say,
00:26:38.80\00:26:40.08
unless I cut this thing short.
00:26:40.09\00:26:41.32
So God in His love is not
going to let this thing go
00:26:41.33\00:26:44.10
on forever, He cannot
and in love He's gonna cut it
00:26:44.11\00:26:47.73
short and praise God for it.
00:26:47.74\00:26:49.08
You know, I remember Pastor C.D.
00:26:49.09\00:26:50.26
Brooks once said, "The earth
is like an old pair of jeans.
00:26:50.27\00:26:54.43
It tears in one
place and you sew it up,
00:26:54.44\00:26:56.40
it tears in other
place, you stitch it up.
00:26:56.41\00:26:58.54
"I don't know in
this world today,
00:26:58.55\00:27:00.57
it seems like a fad to
wear jeans that are fallen apart
00:27:00.58\00:27:03.32
that look like they've
been in five generations,
00:27:03.33\00:27:06.60
but what happens is when
that final tear happens, yeah.
00:27:06.61\00:27:09.33
You just got to
discard the entire garment.
00:27:09.34\00:27:11.08
You got to discard.
00:27:11.09\00:27:12.06
And our world
is being torn apart
00:27:12.07\00:27:13.25
by one tragedy or the other.
00:27:13.26\00:27:15.27
So let me, let me now end this
talk with the idea that well,
00:27:15.28\00:27:18.45
if it's a post-tribulation
or pre-tribulation.
00:27:18.46\00:27:21.19
Let me end it with this thought,
00:27:21.20\00:27:22.30
John 14, verse 27,
"Peace I leave with you,
00:27:22.31\00:27:26.78
my peace I give to you,
00:27:26.79\00:27:28.70
not as the world
gives do I give to you.
00:27:28.71\00:27:31.28
Let not your heart be troubled,
00:27:31.29\00:27:33.24
neither let it be
afraid," I love it.
00:27:33.25\00:27:35.31
You know, we got a God
that is not going to allow
00:27:35.32\00:27:37.72
us to go down the drain,
He's got a strainer there.
00:27:37.73\00:27:41.44
When all the problems
of the world are gone down
00:27:41.45\00:27:43.45
the drain, He's gonna shake
us off and take us to heaven.
00:27:43.46\00:27:46.28
One of my favorite text, just
to add a little cherry on it
00:27:46.29\00:27:48.23
on Sunday there, John 16:33,
00:27:48.24\00:27:50.51
"These things I have
spoken unto you that in me
00:27:53.83\00:27:55.56
ye might have peace.
00:27:55.57\00:27:56.54
In the world ye
shall have tribulation
00:27:56.55\00:27:58.62
but be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world."
00:27:58.63\00:28:01.24
That's right. Yeah.
00:28:01.25\00:28:02.27
It's not and the beauty
of it pastor is not something
00:28:02.28\00:28:05.55
that Jesus sits back and says,
00:28:05.56\00:28:07.77
"Now what would I do."
00:28:07.78\00:28:09.43
I'm glad I don't serve
that kind of Jesus, amen.
00:28:09.44\00:28:11.70
He knows where it's headed,
00:28:11.71\00:28:12.68
that's why He has predicted it,
00:28:12.69\00:28:14.31
but He's also predicted the end.
00:28:14.32\00:28:15.93
Praise the Lord.
Thank you for the questions.
00:28:15.94\00:28:17.33
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00:28:17.34\00:28:18.43
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00:28:18.44\00:28:20.95
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00:28:20.96\00:28:22.52
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Well, today we've a very
00:28:43.42\00:28:45.89
interesting topic
that we're gonna cover.
00:28:45.90\00:28:47.34
We're gonna try to
do as much as we can
00:28:47.35\00:28:48.81
in the time remaining.
00:28:48.82\00:28:50.16
And let me just say
the title is one that may
00:28:50.17\00:28:52.92
bring a smile to your face,
00:28:52.93\00:28:54.31
but I hope it also brings
a sober attitude to your mind
00:28:54.32\00:28:57.55
because as a
person who wants have
00:28:57.56\00:28:59.02
optimum health in the world
today concerned about health.
00:28:59.03\00:29:01.95
This program is
entitled to eat or not to eat,
00:29:01.96\00:29:04.61
that's the question.
that is the question.
00:29:04.62\00:29:06.43
You know, that
takes me down that thought
00:29:06.44\00:29:09.46
the philosophical route
to be or not to be, wow!
00:29:09.47\00:29:14.08
You know, because
it's on the planet,
00:29:14.09\00:29:17.31
do we eat it
because it breeds and moves
00:29:17.32\00:29:21.18
is it intended to be food.
00:29:21.19\00:29:23.65
Are there certain
things that you do just
00:29:23.66\00:29:26.31
because it's available?
00:29:26.32\00:29:28.86
What's the reason
why you do, what you do?
00:29:28.87\00:29:30.94
What is the reason why you eat,
00:29:30.95\00:29:32.62
what you eat and what
has God intended for us
00:29:32.63\00:29:36.06
to have as our
daily food supply.
00:29:36.07\00:29:39.83
You know, with
medical costs going up,
00:29:39.84\00:29:41.17
right now there's a
big debate in our country
00:29:41.18\00:29:43.12
about health costs and
how to take care of those.
00:29:43.13\00:29:45.95
And I'll suggest you
that in the midst of all that,
00:29:45.96\00:29:49.20
just recently a
survey came out saying that
00:29:49.21\00:29:52.07
in schools one of the
reasons why children can't
00:29:52.08\00:29:54.11
concentrate as much as they do,
00:29:54.12\00:29:55.87
is because the high
sugar levels in juice
00:29:55.88\00:29:58.43
and high sugar levels in soda.
00:29:58.44\00:30:00.82
Well, if something
like juice and soda
00:30:00.83\00:30:03.27
is becoming a
concern, the Bible gives us
00:30:03.28\00:30:06.06
a larger plate of
things that we should avoid,
00:30:06.07\00:30:09.06
but also an equally
larger plate of things
00:30:09.07\00:30:11.56
that we can include, yeah.
00:30:11.57\00:30:13.33
Let's begin with
the principle though,
00:30:13.34\00:30:14.46
let's start in 3rd John
verse 2, 3rd John verse 2
00:30:14.47\00:30:19.63
What does the Bible say
about this particular principle?
00:30:19.64\00:30:22.23
Let's begin with the principle.
00:30:22.24\00:30:23.37
"Beloved, I wish
above all things that thou
00:30:23.38\00:30:26.67
mayest prosper and be in health,
00:30:26.68\00:30:28.68
even as thy soul prospereth."
00:30:28.69\00:30:32.20
Pastor, do you know anybody
that doesn't want to prosper?
00:30:32.21\00:30:35.30
I can't think of anybody.
00:30:35.31\00:30:36.28
You know, can you imagine,
guy says, I'm going to school
00:30:36.29\00:30:39.26
and after I get my
degree, I'm gonna fail, can we?
00:30:39.27\00:30:43.48
There is not a person we
know that plans for failure.
00:30:43.49\00:30:47.61
Now there are few vegetables
and few nuts out there,
00:30:47.62\00:30:51.26
they are just
really loose canons
00:30:51.27\00:30:52.56
that are suicidal in nature,
00:30:52.57\00:30:54.51
but for the most
part even they hope
00:30:54.52\00:30:56.20
to succeed in their suicide--
00:30:56.21\00:30:57.86
You have a same rational
person, they want to do well.
00:30:57.87\00:31:00.89
Right. They want to prosper.
00:31:00.90\00:31:03.57
And, of course, this
is not some would make it
00:31:03.58\00:31:06.07
a guarantee of
wealth, health, and longevity.
00:31:06.08\00:31:09.28
There are some who would
say when you come to Lord,
00:31:09.29\00:31:10.61
this text guarantee
that no, this is God's wish,
00:31:10.62\00:31:13.29
but this is His wish, I want you
00:31:13.30\00:31:15.98
to prosper even
as a soul prosper.
00:31:15.99\00:31:19.86
And so the really, the
burden of this text actual is,
00:31:19.87\00:31:24.21
actually is soul prospering.
00:31:24.22\00:31:26.47
He saying, I'm assuming that
00:31:26.48\00:31:28.98
you are in good
spiritual condition.
00:31:28.99\00:31:31.81
I want your physical life
to match your spiritual life.
00:31:31.82\00:31:36.04
But this
presupposes that you've got
00:31:36.05\00:31:38.09
a good working
relation with God.
00:31:38.10\00:31:39.98
Because it's a competitive
text, even has your soul,
00:31:39.99\00:31:43.45
I know you love the Lord,
00:31:43.46\00:31:44.86
I know you right with the Lord.
00:31:44.87\00:31:46.37
I hope and pray
that your physical life
00:31:46.38\00:31:49.35
mirrors your spiritual life.
00:31:49.36\00:31:51.78
That's right. Yeah.
00:31:51.79\00:31:52.84
And that's good, I
like that comparison,
00:31:52.85\00:31:54.89
one is leaning on
the fact of the other,
00:31:54.90\00:31:58.40
if in fact the
first one is a fact.
00:31:58.41\00:32:00.08
Since you're
doing well financially,
00:32:00.09\00:32:01.55
how you're doing physically,
00:32:01.56\00:32:03.91
that's the
question has being led here.
00:32:03.92\00:32:05.54
But the age in which we
live, and this is something that
00:32:05.55\00:32:07.91
I wanna make this
question age appropriate,
00:32:07.92\00:32:09.85
no not so much what your age is,
00:32:09.86\00:32:11.67
but the age in which we live.
00:32:11.68\00:32:13.03
Correct, because we are living
00:32:13.04\00:32:14.37
in a very
conscious society nowadays
00:32:14.38\00:32:16.23
when it comes to health,
00:32:16.24\00:32:17.78
everybody wants to be in health,
00:32:17.79\00:32:19.02
there are books by the thousands
00:32:19.03\00:32:20.84
maybe hundred or
thousands are written
00:32:20.85\00:32:23.46
on how to have optimum health.
00:32:23.47\00:32:25.00
I would doubt
somebody would buy a Mercedes,
00:32:25.01\00:32:26.92
or any kind of new vehicle,
00:32:26.93\00:32:28.45
or any vehicle at
all whether new or used
00:32:28.46\00:32:30.90
and say I want this
vehicle to breakdown
00:32:30.91\00:32:34.18
after about a week.
00:32:34.19\00:32:36.17
Right, I doubt
anybody would buy a horse
00:32:37.75\00:32:40.50
that they would consider a
farming horse or race horse
00:32:40.51\00:32:44.03
and feed that
horse snicker bars,
00:32:44.04\00:32:47.70
Pepsi, keep him up
late, giving chewing tobacco
00:32:47.71\00:32:50.81
and hope he gets up the next day
00:32:50.82\00:32:52.58
and performs as a
race horse should,
00:32:52.59\00:32:54.69
I doubt that. Yeah.
00:32:54.70\00:32:56.16
But in very many cases
00:32:56.17\00:32:57.55
the things that we
don't do to our horses
00:32:57.56\00:32:59.58
and we don't do to our cars,
00:32:59.59\00:33:01.33
we do almost
voluntarily to our bodies
00:33:01.34\00:33:04.69
and expect for there
to be optimum recovery
00:33:04.70\00:33:08.12
and optimum conditioning
and optimum performance
00:33:08.13\00:33:10.97
and it really
doesn't matter, yeah.
00:33:10.98\00:33:12.29
I mean, it really doesn't match.
00:33:12.30\00:33:14.29
So let's go to this verse,
00:33:14.30\00:33:15.78
before we go to
the second question,
00:33:15.79\00:33:17.43
why do God give
health rules to His people?
00:33:17.44\00:33:20.07
Let's go to
Revelation Chapter 14
00:33:20.08\00:33:24.12
and I want to look at verse 6
00:33:24.13\00:33:26.48
and then we're gonna go
00:33:26.49\00:33:27.46
to 1st
Corinthians 10 and verse 31.
00:33:27.47\00:33:29.80
And notice that in an
age where God is saying
00:33:29.81\00:33:34.87
there's something
that I am worthy of
00:33:34.88\00:33:38.33
how and what way
and what many forms
00:33:38.34\00:33:42.25
can we give God
exactly what He deserves.
00:33:42.26\00:33:45.28
Notice, how they got
been. I'm gonna go ahead
00:33:45.29\00:33:47.31
and have the
text read first, okay.
00:33:47.32\00:33:50.43
Revelation Chapter
14 and we're gonna read
00:33:50.44\00:33:54.24
verse 6 and verse
7. Okay, Revelation 14.
00:33:54.25\00:33:57.17
You have one of
those big Bibles.
00:33:57.18\00:33:59.27
Yeah, I've got this brand new,
00:33:59.28\00:34:00.77
brand new Bible, uses
from that much. Verse 6 and 7.
00:34:00.78\00:34:03.50
Okay, here we go Revelation 14,
00:34:03.51\00:34:04.98
I'm at verse 6. Okay.
00:34:04.99\00:34:07.46
"Saying with a loud voice,
00:34:07.47\00:34:08.81
Fear God, and give glory to him,
00:34:08.82\00:34:10.87
for the hour of
his judgment is come,
00:34:10.88\00:34:13.05
and worship him
that made the heaven,
00:34:13.06\00:34:15.07
and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters."
00:34:15.08\00:34:18.15
Okay, that's
verse 7, so that's key,
00:34:18.16\00:34:19.69
the key there
is verse 6 includes
00:34:19.70\00:34:21.67
preaching the everlasting gospel
00:34:21.68\00:34:23.45
and what has being said is,
00:34:23.46\00:34:24.66
"Fear God, and
give glory to Him."
00:34:24.67\00:34:28.34
Now Christian friend,
and you may be Christian
00:34:28.35\00:34:31.27
and I'm just
assuming that some of you
00:34:31.28\00:34:34.41
who are watching are Christians,
00:34:34.42\00:34:35.97
if you're not
follow along with me.
00:34:35.98\00:34:38.32
Giving God glory is something
every Christian wants to do.
00:34:38.33\00:34:43.00
But I want to now take you
00:34:43.01\00:34:45.00
to 1st
Corinthians 10 and verse 31,
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.74
because a lot
people believe that,
00:34:47.75\00:34:49.59
through our songs,
through our sermons,
00:34:49.60\00:34:53.20
through our service,
00:34:53.21\00:34:54.95
through our financial giving,
00:34:54.96\00:34:56.96
through our outreach
and our missionary work,
00:34:56.97\00:34:59.22
those are the means that God
00:34:59.23\00:35:00.85
is ordained to
give Him glory, yeah.
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But pastor, go to
1st Corinthians 10:31,
00:35:02.70\00:35:04.78
I know you have thought,
go ahead and share with us.
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Yeah, I say and they are,
you are so right, they are.
00:35:06.08\00:35:09.35
The problem is
or the challenge is,
00:35:09.36\00:35:11.08
they are not the
only means, that's right.
00:35:11.09\00:35:12.65
If you limited to
that, and lo, lot of things
00:35:12.66\00:35:15.90
that what we do in
church on any given day.
00:35:15.91\00:35:18.52
We pray to Him, we
praise Him verbally,
00:35:18.53\00:35:22.57
we preach about Him,
we lift our hands to Him
00:35:22.58\00:35:26.28
in some instances and
all of that is good and right
00:35:26.29\00:35:28.54
and just, but that's not all
00:35:28.55\00:35:31.41
that's continence
by giving glory to God.
00:35:31.42\00:35:34.39
And this text you
picked is so appropriate, okay.
00:35:34.40\00:35:38.38
Eat that--I'm sorry,
"Whether therefore you eat,
00:35:38.39\00:35:42.64
or drink, or whatsoever you do,
00:35:42.65\00:35:45.65
do all to the glory of God."
00:35:45.66\00:35:49.46
I saw a program on
very famous talk show hosts
00:35:49.47\00:35:54.07
and they were talking
about how this one lady
00:35:54.08\00:35:57.19
for so many years was
seen as a neat, clean,
00:35:57.20\00:36:01.86
all put together
professional lady.
00:36:01.87\00:36:03.94
She had a very high
position in her company.
00:36:03.95\00:36:07.15
And when you
drove pass her house,
00:36:07.16\00:36:08.73
yard was manicured,
beautiful landscaping,
00:36:08.74\00:36:11.80
but on the inside of the house
00:36:11.81\00:36:13.45
it was a trap of insanity.
00:36:13.46\00:36:15.96
This lady was, she
hadn't cleaned her house
00:36:15.97\00:36:18.98
for seven or at
least eight years,
00:36:18.99\00:36:21.03
hadn't cleaned it.
00:36:21.04\00:36:22.55
That means dishes
had not been washed,
00:36:22.56\00:36:24.77
she had many animals, many cats.
00:36:24.78\00:36:27.18
So let's go ahead and
talk about all the things
00:36:27.19\00:36:29.54
that are laying everywhere,
00:36:29.55\00:36:31.10
there was even cat
droppings in the bottom
00:36:31.11\00:36:32.85
of the shower
that she used each day
00:36:32.86\00:36:34.97
to take her shower
before she went to work.
00:36:34.98\00:36:37.83
Let's go
further even in her bed,
00:36:37.84\00:36:41.04
she slept on one half of the bed
00:36:41.05\00:36:42.29
the other half of the bed
00:36:42.30\00:36:43.27
had droppings from her
animals in her closets.
00:36:43.28\00:36:46.37
When they came to
the spot to clean it,
00:36:46.38\00:36:50.22
people would
periodically turn quickly,
00:36:50.23\00:36:52.01
because a mouse
is running probably
00:36:52.02\00:36:54.34
after another mouse
just this house was so messy.
00:36:54.35\00:36:58.35
And they ask the lady
00:36:58.36\00:37:00.68
how can you
allow this to happen?
00:37:00.69\00:37:03.37
And she was giving
all the logical answers
00:37:03.38\00:37:05.24
and the talk show
host says, you know,
00:37:05.25\00:37:07.02
what the problem is, you
know exactly what to say,
00:37:07.03\00:37:09.97
but you don't even
know what you could,
00:37:09.98\00:37:11.20
you don't even know
how bad your condition is.
00:37:11.21\00:37:14.25
So what was in
essence saying is,
00:37:14.26\00:37:15.87
you may look
good on the outside,
00:37:15.88\00:37:18.22
but based on what you are
neglecting about the inside,
00:37:18.23\00:37:21.79
you can be a Christian
00:37:21.80\00:37:23.03
that has all the
external trappings of the person
00:37:23.04\00:37:26.74
that's living the right
life, but internally your organs
00:37:26.75\00:37:29.51
could be falling apart,
00:37:29.52\00:37:30.77
your body could be in shambles,
00:37:30.78\00:37:32.50
because you have
ignored what this verse says,
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eating and drinking
to the glory of God.
00:37:34.98\00:37:36.65
Yeah, yeah, what's
interesting about that,
00:37:36.66\00:37:39.65
and that's a frightening
example but very, very app.
00:37:39.66\00:37:44.94
Everything that touches us
00:37:44.95\00:37:46.69
as you well know it touches God.
00:37:46.70\00:37:48.56
Everything that
concerns us concerns God's.
00:37:48.57\00:37:51.64
God is
concerned about Christians
00:37:51.65\00:37:53.73
to the minutest detail.
00:37:53.74\00:37:56.66
And if we are
doing things that destroy
00:37:56.67\00:37:59.36
our body that, we're
gonna come to some text
00:37:59.37\00:38:02.12
that verify
this in a little bit,
00:38:02.13\00:38:04.61
that's got be of
concerned to God.
00:38:04.62\00:38:06.34
If Christ die to pay
for you, to purchase you,
00:38:06.35\00:38:11.09
to redeem you,
then He has of course,
00:38:11.10\00:38:14.15
concerned about the
kind of shape you are in.
00:38:14.16\00:38:16.57
That's right,
because the kind of shape
00:38:16.58\00:38:18.22
you are in bespeaks
the kind of God you serve.
00:38:18.23\00:38:21.71
And if you're in better
physical and mental health,
00:38:21.72\00:38:25.74
you can do, I remember,
00:38:25.75\00:38:28.08
I think it was George
Washington or Ben Franklin
00:38:28.09\00:38:31.36
had said God can use any tool,
00:38:31.37\00:38:34.12
He can use sharper axe
00:38:34.13\00:38:35.44
a little better,
you know. High pad.
00:38:35.45\00:38:37.27
And so he wants
you to be a sharp axe,
00:38:37.28\00:38:40.18
you know. Right.
00:38:40.19\00:38:41.22
So that you can be a
powerful witness for Him.
00:38:41.23\00:38:44.26
If you are lazy, and sluggish,
00:38:44.27\00:38:46.68
and in bad shape,
what does that say
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.68
about the God that,
you're trying to serve.
00:38:48.69\00:38:50.20
That's right,
yeah, You cannot use,
00:38:50.21\00:38:52.73
you would not use a racing car
00:38:52.74\00:38:54.83
that's sputtering if
you want to win. Precisely.
00:38:54.84\00:38:57.70
And so the principles
00:38:57.71\00:38:59.19
and the reason I mention
this, because the principles
00:38:59.20\00:39:01.19
that we naturally applied
to vehicles in our homes,
00:39:01.20\00:39:05.96
in our cars and all the things
00:39:05.97\00:39:07.50
that we want to function right.
00:39:07.51\00:39:08.74
You won't put your
cell phone in the bath tub
00:39:08.75\00:39:10.77
and expected to respond
when you make a phone call.
00:39:10.78\00:39:13.63
You know, the things
that should be avoided,
00:39:13.64\00:39:15.13
but on the same side
a lot of people believe
00:39:15.14\00:39:17.64
that they could just treat
their body any oh, how, yeah.
00:39:17.65\00:39:21.20
And it doesn't really
matter and in some sense,
00:39:21.21\00:39:24.86
C.A, some people
believe, well, I'm a Christian,
00:39:24.87\00:39:27.19
God's going to give
me another body anyhow.
00:39:27.20\00:39:29.78
So what I do with this one
00:39:29.79\00:39:31.66
really, really doesn't matter.
00:39:31.67\00:39:34.15
And that's sad, that's sad.
00:39:34.16\00:39:35.65
You know, so I send somebody
just rent you their house
00:39:35.66\00:39:37.48
and what you
would do with that one
00:39:37.49\00:39:38.66
since they got other
houses, right, just trash it?
00:39:38.67\00:39:41.38
They're going to get another,
they have others anyway.
00:39:41.39\00:39:43.22
Just a rental.
Yeah. It's not mine.
00:39:43.23\00:39:45.76
Some people
think that way though.
00:39:45.77\00:39:46.78
They do, indeed they do,
00:39:46.79\00:39:48.81
that's why doctors
will always have jobs,
00:39:48.82\00:39:51.62
because there are
those who abuse their body
00:39:51.63\00:39:53.37
and they figure a pill
can change it, or fix it.
00:39:53.38\00:39:56.77
I read something the
other day I really like,
00:39:56.78\00:39:58.41
it said the
secret of your future
00:39:58.42\00:39:59.92
is hidden in your daily routine,
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.93
that's what you put in your body
00:40:01.94\00:40:03.64
and what you do with
your body every single day
00:40:03.65\00:40:05.73
that determines your longevity.
00:40:05.74\00:40:07.36
I mean, your genes and genetics
00:40:07.37\00:40:08.74
have a lot to do with it.
00:40:08.75\00:40:09.93
But how we treat it everyday
00:40:09.94\00:40:11.64
has more or as
much to do with it,
00:40:11.65\00:40:13.32
as the genetic makeup
that we are given, yeah.
00:40:13.33\00:40:17.00
Let's go to 1st
Corinthians Chapter 6.
00:40:17.01\00:40:19.26
We're still
laying some principles
00:40:19.27\00:40:20.66
and let me gonna hit on
some things very quickly.
00:40:20.67\00:40:22.69
And we also may
extend this topic to a number
00:40:22.70\00:40:25.39
of other upcoming programs,
00:40:25.40\00:40:26.54
because the Lord want
you to be in good health.
00:40:26.55\00:40:29.16
But how that
happens, we could simply say,
00:40:29.17\00:40:31.29
go get a pill, we live in a
pill driven society. Oh, yes.
00:40:31.30\00:40:34.18
You know, take two and
call me in the morning.
00:40:34.19\00:40:36.53
Well, if you wakeup the next day
00:40:36.54\00:40:38.44
that's the whole issue.
00:40:38.45\00:40:39.68
But here let's go to
1st Corinthians Chapter 6.
00:40:39.69\00:40:42.77
And you have the
King James Version,
00:40:42.78\00:40:46.61
I want you to read--
00:40:46.62\00:40:47.59
I brought King
James. King James,
00:40:47.60\00:40:49.39
I want you to read
in that translation,
00:40:49.40\00:40:51.86
because I like the way
that Paul begins verse 19.
00:40:51.87\00:40:56.25
He begins it with
00:40:56.26\00:40:57.65
somewhat of a
startling single word. Yeah.
00:40:57.66\00:41:00.51
You know, what
I'm talking about.
00:41:00.52\00:41:02.47
And I want you to give it,
00:41:02.48\00:41:03.45
I want you to give it
with the New Year flavor
00:41:03.46\00:41:05.24
when you use
that first word, okay.
00:41:05.25\00:41:07.52
First Corinthians Chapter
6 verse 19 start with that,
00:41:07.53\00:41:11.48
give us New Year flavor.
00:41:11.49\00:41:12.53
It says, what or
as we said, New York,
00:41:12.54\00:41:14.84
what, you know that
kind of thing. Right.
00:41:14.85\00:41:17.36
"Know ye not that
your body is a temple
00:41:17.37\00:41:20.08
of the Holy
Ghost which is in you,
00:41:20.09\00:41:22.35
which ye have of God?
00:41:22.36\00:41:23.70
And ye are not your own." Okay.
00:41:23.71\00:41:25.47
You know, I'm glad he said what,
00:41:25.48\00:41:27.51
don't you know that,
your body belongs to God?
00:41:27.52\00:41:30.34
He's talking to
Corinthians. Yeah.
00:41:30.35\00:41:31.80
He is talking to Christians
00:41:31.81\00:41:33.17
in the Corinthians
setting a port city,
00:41:33.18\00:41:35.54
many different people
of different nationalities
00:41:35.55\00:41:37.58
all gather there, a
place of commerce. Yeah.
00:41:37.59\00:41:40.13
And but he is saying
to, it's almost like a shot,
00:41:40.14\00:41:42.51
what, don't you know?
Yeah. It's almost like,
00:41:42.52\00:41:45.63
how could you as a
Christian not know. Yeah.
00:41:45.64\00:41:48.34
That you don't belong to you.
00:41:48.35\00:41:50.82
If you think that
your house belongs to you,
00:41:50.83\00:41:53.03
stop paying taxes. Precisely.
00:41:53.04\00:41:54.87
The government will tell you,
00:41:54.88\00:41:56.01
we're coming to get our house.
00:41:56.02\00:41:57.89
They will stop by
saying. Or the bank would say.
00:41:57.90\00:41:59.63
They would stop by saying what,
00:41:59.64\00:42:01.28
don't you know that this
land belongs to the government?
00:42:01.29\00:42:04.35
You see, there
is no eminent domain
00:42:04.36\00:42:05.73
when it comes to
ownership of our bodies.
00:42:05.74\00:42:07.66
But break it down
again and he goes on,
00:42:07.67\00:42:10.26
he says your body is what?
00:42:10.27\00:42:13.46
It's the temple. That's right.
00:42:13.47\00:42:14.90
The temple of the Holy
Ghost, which is in you,
00:42:14.91\00:42:18.25
and ye have of God?
00:42:18.26\00:42:19.34
I like it, you are not your own,
00:42:19.35\00:42:22.14
you don't-- and because that,
00:42:22.15\00:42:23.66
that knocks the pegs up
00:42:23.67\00:42:24.84
from that line
that's my body. Yeah.
00:42:24.85\00:42:27.02
Oh, no, it's not,
00:42:27.03\00:42:28.02
you've been
purchased with the price,
00:42:28.03\00:42:29.66
somebody has brought you,
00:42:29.67\00:42:31.54
you don't belong
totally to yourself.
00:42:31.55\00:42:34.43
That's right. Yeah,
you are not your own.
00:42:34.44\00:42:36.27
And if you
think you're your own,
00:42:36.28\00:42:38.14
ask yourself when did
you manufactured you--
00:42:38.15\00:42:42.98
In the beginning God created,
00:42:42.99\00:42:44.93
one of the problems
in our world today is,
00:42:44.94\00:42:46.75
we dismiss responsibility
and stewardship by saying
00:42:46.76\00:42:51.00
we are some
evolutionary process,
00:42:51.01\00:42:52.53
some biological birth.
00:42:52.54\00:42:54.09
That's not the facts,
because there is too much
00:42:54.10\00:42:56.14
order here to come out of chaos.
00:42:56.15\00:42:58.25
You can have all this function
00:42:58.26\00:42:59.75
down to the
minutest infinitesimal cell
00:42:59.76\00:43:02.15
and think that it happend
00:43:02.16\00:43:03.13
by some exploitation
somewhere. Yes, yeah.
00:43:03.14\00:43:05.43
And the fact of the
matter is you are not your own
00:43:05.44\00:43:06.93
and when doctors get together,
00:43:06.94\00:43:07.92
and scientist get together,
they let you know that,
00:43:07.93\00:43:09.96
what's happening on
the inside of your body,
00:43:09.97\00:43:11.51
this regenerative
process is being interrupted,
00:43:11.52\00:43:14.40
because you are
not paying attention
00:43:14.41\00:43:15.73
to the very things that
would happen in the right way
00:43:15.74\00:43:18.45
if you follow this
particular principles.
00:43:18.46\00:43:20.30
Yeah, yeah there
are so many things here,
00:43:20.31\00:43:23.44
you're bought with a
price, verse 20 says.
00:43:23.45\00:43:25.62
So you have been paid for,
00:43:25.63\00:43:27.54
and you are the
property of a loving God,
00:43:27.55\00:43:31.73
and whenever you buy
something kind of complex,
00:43:31.74\00:43:33.79
you know, I'd bought a piece
of furniture the other day.
00:43:33.80\00:43:36.41
And, you know,
you try to be macho,
00:43:36.42\00:43:38.82
I'm gonna put
this thing together
00:43:38.83\00:43:39.80
without reading the
manual, you know. I like that.
00:43:39.81\00:43:42.28
I'm gonna put it together,
00:43:42.29\00:43:43.79
because I can do
this, I went to college,
00:43:43.80\00:43:45.15
I can do this, you
know, so you've got Flange A,
00:43:45.16\00:43:47.32
to Tab B and you got
screws and you get done,
00:43:47.33\00:43:50.01
you got a handful of screws left
00:43:50.02\00:43:51.29
and it didn't working
right, it's just not right,
00:43:51.30\00:43:53.75
because you didn't
read the manual. Right.
00:43:53.76\00:43:55.70
Well, the manufacturer
gave you a manual. Specific.
00:43:55.71\00:43:58.89
Precisely, and if
you follow the manual,
00:43:58.90\00:44:01.30
it's going to work out
fine. God has given us a manual,
00:44:01.31\00:44:04.22
we have it in our
hands. That's right.
00:44:04.23\00:44:05.59
It tells us what
to do, what not to do,
00:44:05.60\00:44:08.65
what to put in our body,
what not to put in our body,
00:44:08.66\00:44:11.36
and it gives us the effect of,
00:44:11.37\00:44:13.59
if we do it right,
00:44:13.60\00:44:14.74
and if we do it
wrong. That's right.
00:44:14.75\00:44:16.32
So we know what
to do the things,
00:44:16.33\00:44:18.02
are you gonna follow the manual,
00:44:18.03\00:44:19.45
or you gonna try to put it
together Flange A and Tab B
00:44:19.46\00:44:22.74
by yourself and
then you come out
00:44:22.75\00:44:24.21
with something
that's not gonna be right.
00:44:24.22\00:44:25.30
That's a great illustration,
00:44:25.31\00:44:26.48
because you know, how
many times I'm pretty,
00:44:26.49\00:44:29.01
I'm mechanically
geared, mechanically inclined
00:44:29.02\00:44:31.64
and many of us are, you know,
00:44:31.65\00:44:33.26
don't tell a guy that
00:44:33.27\00:44:34.24
he can't put it together. Right.
00:44:34.25\00:44:35.91
You know, he's got tools
00:44:35.92\00:44:37.99
that he just bought at Wal-Mart
00:44:38.00\00:44:40.09
and he knows how to make
00:44:40.10\00:44:41.09
those ratchets, ratchet. Yeah.
00:44:41.10\00:44:43.18
So the worse thing
that a women could do
00:44:43.19\00:44:46.33
is say to her
husband, you don't know
00:44:46.34\00:44:47.99
what you are doing?
00:44:48.00\00:44:48.97
You've just driven him
to prove his insanity. Yeah.
00:44:48.98\00:44:52.33
Because she's kind of
try to prove you wrong,
00:44:52.34\00:44:53.85
am I correct?
00:44:53.86\00:44:54.83
Very true, you're
gonna try to put it together.
00:44:54.84\00:44:56.37
So what you want to
do to get a dysfunctional
00:44:56.38\00:44:59.10
living room set
instead of try to challenge
00:44:59.11\00:45:01.89
your husband to put it
together without reading.
00:45:01.90\00:45:04.11
He's gonna say, I got
this and before you know,
00:45:04.12\00:45:06.05
that couch is gonna be
on the 45 degree angle.
00:45:06.06\00:45:08.67
And that table
is going to be out
00:45:08.68\00:45:09.87
and you will have
a handful of screws
00:45:09.88\00:45:12.14
and nuts and
bolts left over. Yeah.
00:45:12.15\00:45:14.20
Because I sat down one day
00:45:14.21\00:45:16.67
and I looked at the instructions
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.01
and its scares
you in the beginning
00:45:18.02\00:45:19.28
because you get all the
stuff in plastic shrink wrapped.
00:45:19.29\00:45:22.34
And you look at these
screws and for the glance
00:45:22.35\00:45:23.97
they looked the
same length as this one,
00:45:23.98\00:45:26.01
but these have a single slice
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.70
head for the
standard screwdriver,
00:45:28.71\00:45:30.42
these have a Philips head,
00:45:30.43\00:45:31.81
these have the wood
pre-cut type of screws. Right.
00:45:31.82\00:45:34.71
These have the
metal type of threading.
00:45:34.72\00:45:36.81
You get them all mixed up,
you try to put a metal screw,
00:45:36.82\00:45:39.41
wood screw into a
metal nut and you messed up,
00:45:39.42\00:45:42.66
but you force it to
work and in the very same way
00:45:42.67\00:45:45.56
people are putting
things in their body
00:45:45.57\00:45:47.20
without realizing
there is a certain way
00:45:47.21\00:45:49.49
that it needs to be done.
00:45:49.50\00:45:51.25
Let's go to 1st
Corinthians 3 verse 16
00:45:51.26\00:45:53.67
and 17 to add
another facet to this. Yeah.
00:45:53.68\00:45:56.05
Because, yes, God
is a particular God,
00:45:56.06\00:45:58.43
just as you are particular.
00:45:58.44\00:46:00.30
If you are not particular
and you're having dinner,
00:46:00.31\00:46:02.79
let your son put his basketball
00:46:02.80\00:46:04.50
sneakers on the table
at Thanksgiving and say,
00:46:04.51\00:46:07.65
"Mom, it's just,
it's not really toxic,
00:46:07.66\00:46:11.18
it will be just fine."
00:46:11.19\00:46:12.80
You'll show me exactly
how particular you are. Yeah.
00:46:12.81\00:46:15.25
Is God particular,
notice what the Lord
00:46:15.26\00:46:16.92
and I think this is
what you do to your son
00:46:16.93\00:46:18.32
if he ignore you?
00:46:18.33\00:46:19.30
Yeah, this is the
companion text 16, 19 and 20.
00:46:19.31\00:46:22.29
That's right. "If any
man defile the temple of--
00:46:22.30\00:46:25.31
" Well, first verse
16. You want 16, okay.
00:46:25.32\00:46:28.60
"Know you not, that
you are the temple of God,
00:46:28.61\00:46:31.09
and that the spirit
of God dwelt in you?"
00:46:31.10\00:46:35.34
If any man, I'm in 17 now,
00:46:35.35\00:46:37.27
"Defile the temple of
God him shall God destory,
00:46:37.28\00:46:40.79
for the temple of God is holy,
00:46:40.80\00:46:42.86
which temple ye
are." That's right.
00:46:42.87\00:46:46.33
In another words
the Bible is saying,
00:46:46.34\00:46:48.17
not in other words, but clearly,
00:46:48.18\00:46:51.85
"Your body is God's temple."
00:46:51.88\00:46:53.83
Now let's go ahead
and make this very clear
00:46:53.84\00:46:55.86
because God is
not in the business
00:46:55.87\00:46:57.17
of just fly swatting people,
00:46:57.18\00:47:00.75
but some of us
fly swat ourselves.
00:47:00.76\00:47:02.87
There you go,
that's an important part.
00:47:02.88\00:47:04.14
Talk about that
for a moment. Yeah.
00:47:04.15\00:47:05.30
How we break ourselves.
00:47:05.31\00:47:06.29
You may come over with,
okay, God's gonna destroy me.
00:47:06.30\00:47:08.28
He didn't have to,
00:47:08.29\00:47:09.68
because if you are constantly
00:47:09.71\00:47:10.93
pumping things into your body,
00:47:10.94\00:47:12.30
you're gonna
destroy yourself. Right.
00:47:12.31\00:47:13.73
Now what he may not do is answer
00:47:13.74\00:47:16.10
your prayer for healing
00:47:16.11\00:47:17.64
unless you have
a change of mind.
00:47:17.65\00:47:19.66
Why should God heal
you for you to go back
00:47:19.67\00:47:22.32
and re-pump in those
same things that destroyed
00:47:22.33\00:47:24.68
you in the first place.
00:47:24.69\00:47:25.66
So we're not
talking about a God,
00:47:25.67\00:47:28.07
who is sitting in the
heaven and saying okay,
00:47:28.08\00:47:29.96
I'm gonna destroy
her, I'm gonna destroy him.
00:47:29.97\00:47:32.21
No your habits are
destroying you. That's right.
00:47:32.22\00:47:35.00
Your bad habits are
destroying your health.
00:47:35.01\00:47:39.66
If you are smoking,
and smoking, and smoking,
00:47:39.67\00:47:43.32
you may not get lung
cancer. That's right.
00:47:43.33\00:47:45.95
You may not, but odds
are you will. That's right.
00:47:45.96\00:47:48.95
You know, so if you're smoking,
00:47:48.96\00:47:50.92
does it make sense for you
to say God heal me of this,
00:47:50.93\00:47:54.51
so I can smoke some
more. Why would you do that?
00:47:54.55\00:47:57.99
You know, so you are
destroying the temple,
00:47:58.00\00:48:01.50
God is simply letting you feel
00:48:01.51\00:48:04.02
the
consequences of your actions.
00:48:04.03\00:48:06.23
That's right. Yeah.
00:48:06.24\00:48:07.40
And so naturally we
know that in the same
00:48:07.41\00:48:11.77
in the world of physics,
00:48:11.78\00:48:13.41
for every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction.
00:48:13.42\00:48:17.77
So, you can't throw the ball,
00:48:17.78\00:48:19.25
you cannot stand two
feet away from the ball
00:48:19.26\00:48:21.55
and throw a
super ball at the wall
00:48:21.56\00:48:22.61
and I expect it come back
00:48:22.62\00:48:23.59
and knock you out. Yeah, okay.
00:48:23.60\00:48:25.76
You cannot throw
something out of glass window
00:48:25.77\00:48:27.93
that's above your
head and I expect the glass
00:48:27.94\00:48:30.13
would rain down and cut you up.
00:48:30.14\00:48:32.07
So for every
action there is an equal,
00:48:32.08\00:48:34.01
at least an equal and
opposite reaction. Yes.
00:48:34.02\00:48:37.74
So let's not think
of our body as the place
00:48:37.75\00:48:40.24
where that principle is exempt,
00:48:40.25\00:48:42.12
because it applies
in everything else.
00:48:42.13\00:48:43.80
Yeah, and that's what sad. Yeah.
00:48:43.81\00:48:46.20
God has made us so fearfully
00:48:46.21\00:48:47.59
and wonderfully that your body
00:48:47.60\00:48:48.78
can take an off lot of
abuse for off a longtime.
00:48:48.79\00:48:51.91
I think of one
of the great boxers,
00:48:51.92\00:48:53.78
Muhammad Ali, and
I don't know exactly
00:48:53.79\00:48:55.52
all the reasons why
his challenge in the way
00:48:55.53\00:48:58.60
he is today great guy, you know,
00:48:58.61\00:48:59.96
people love him and
we all still applaud him
00:48:59.97\00:49:02.46
for his many accomplishments.
00:49:02.47\00:49:03.66
And when you
mentioned the name Ali,
00:49:03.67\00:49:04.82
he's still known no matter what,
00:49:04.83\00:49:07.02
the greatest, you know,
that's just the bottom line.
00:49:07.03\00:49:09.20
But I would say that probably
00:49:09.21\00:49:10.98
and this is just my
limited understanding,
00:49:10.99\00:49:12.77
probably the years of
that pounding to his head.
00:49:12.78\00:49:16.82
And I saw one of
those shots one day where,
00:49:16.83\00:49:19.50
George Foreman, and I'm
not saying that was the shot,
00:49:19.51\00:49:21.37
but George
Foreman hit him one day
00:49:21.38\00:49:23.03
and I remember very
well, no sorry Joe Frazier hit
00:49:23.04\00:49:27.08
him one day and
he says Joe Frazier
00:49:27.09\00:49:28.92
would decapitate the normal man,
00:49:28.93\00:49:32.22
he hit him so hard.
00:49:32.23\00:49:33.57
Now the pounding to the skull,
00:49:33.58\00:49:36.00
when the brain is
held by some very,
00:49:36.01\00:49:38.00
very light
tendons that, you know,
00:49:38.01\00:49:40.58
like you don't throw
your brain pressuring
00:49:40.59\00:49:44.17
against you at, if you do,
00:49:44.18\00:49:45.15
you need to go see
a doctor right away?
00:49:45.16\00:49:46.75
But that brain is held together
00:49:46.76\00:49:48.54
to the sides by some very thin,
00:49:48.55\00:49:50.91
we called it threads,
00:49:50.92\00:49:51.89
but in fact those are nerves
that are holding it together.
00:49:51.90\00:49:54.62
If I swing your head faster
than that brain could adjust,
00:49:54.63\00:49:56.92
I'm gonna tear something,
I'm gonna injure something.
00:49:56.93\00:49:58.56
Yeah, or you're gonna bruise it
00:49:58.57\00:49:59.79
which is a concussion. Right.
00:49:59.80\00:50:00.99
You know, and you
had concussion upon
00:50:01.00\00:50:03.06
concussion in football today,
00:50:03.07\00:50:05.03
if you have two or three, four,
00:50:05.04\00:50:06.15
but they tell you
to stop playing. Right.
00:50:06.16\00:50:07.62
You got to find
another occupation
00:50:07.63\00:50:09.16
and of course, taking a pounding
00:50:09.17\00:50:10.88
like that he probably
will see many, many concussion.
00:50:10.89\00:50:13.71
So there is a price
to be paid for treating
00:50:13.72\00:50:16.57
your body a certain way,
we idolize price fighters,
00:50:16.58\00:50:19.85
but you are paying
Russian with your future
00:50:19.86\00:50:24.05
when you're in
that kind of support.
00:50:24.06\00:50:25.55
Truly and that's why,
you have the joke when,
00:50:25.56\00:50:27.97
you know, we talk about
football players, we go,
00:50:27.98\00:50:31.15
because they have
been hit so much sometimes
00:50:31.16\00:50:33.45
and we know they
are very intellectual
00:50:33.46\00:50:34.70
I apologize if
you're football player,
00:50:34.71\00:50:36.21
I know you're not, you
know, you are not missing
00:50:36.22\00:50:38.94
any
intellectual abilities there.
00:50:38.95\00:50:41.11
But that was the
joke throughout the years,
00:50:41.12\00:50:42.61
you know, you mention
football players you do,
00:50:42.62\00:50:44.56
because they have been
hit so much to the head,
00:50:44.57\00:50:46.91
that's why I
stopped playing football
00:50:46.92\00:50:48.18
as you can tell I'm
not built for sport,
00:50:48.19\00:50:50.11
I thought I could
be a wide receiver
00:50:50.12\00:50:52.59
just running and getting away,
00:50:52.60\00:50:54.17
I found out that there
are guys there were twice
00:50:54.18\00:50:55.78
my weight could
run just as fast.
00:50:55.79\00:50:57.50
I got hit one day
and I thought you know
00:50:57.51\00:50:59.59
for me to have sense
00:50:59.60\00:51:00.57
when I'm in my 30s,
and 40s, and 50s. Yeah.
00:51:00.58\00:51:02.73
I need to take up checkers.
00:51:02.74\00:51:03.76
I did the same
thing in high school.
00:51:03.77\00:51:05.47
First of all, I said, you know,
00:51:05.48\00:51:06.46
this is not my sport.
00:51:06.47\00:51:07.63
I thought I'll
play something else,
00:51:07.64\00:51:09.10
like we indecision of
playing basketball too,
00:51:09.11\00:51:11.53
but that's unintentional, right.
00:51:11.54\00:51:13.28
Football, you
trying to hurt someone,
00:51:13.29\00:51:14.89
or hit somebody, or
knock somebody down.
00:51:14.90\00:51:16.27
Because
cheerleaders to football players
00:51:16.28\00:51:18.33
are nurses into skies,
you're gonna need a nurse
00:51:18.34\00:51:20.56
when you get hit
on the football field,
00:51:20.57\00:51:22.10
so we're in essence
saying we're starting
00:51:22.11\00:51:23.49
this programming by saying,
00:51:23.50\00:51:25.24
"Take note of what
you're doing to your body." Yes.
00:51:25.25\00:51:30.11
We're not gonna
lay down the do's
00:51:30.12\00:51:32.20
and don'ts get about what to eat
00:51:32.21\00:51:33.55
and what not to eat?
00:51:33.56\00:51:34.53
But take note as to what
you are doing to your body
00:51:34.54\00:51:37.31
and if you want that body
00:51:37.32\00:51:38.81
like that car that you polish.
00:51:38.82\00:51:41.99
If you want that car,
well that body to shine
00:51:42.00\00:51:45.02
and perform like that car
00:51:45.03\00:51:46.00
that you're taking
care of, changing the oil,
00:51:46.01\00:51:47.92
the transmission fluid. Yeah.
00:51:47.93\00:51:49.20
Put in it what you
expect to get out of it.
00:51:49.21\00:51:51.73
Precisely, and not only,
00:51:51.74\00:51:53.37
but pastor what you are doing,
00:51:53.38\00:51:55.15
what you are not
doing. That's right.
00:51:55.16\00:51:57.40
At this age, I think of
exercise as medicine. Oh.
00:51:57.41\00:52:00.95
You know, whetheryou
like or not it's immaterial.
00:52:00.96\00:52:03.89
The fact is its integral
to good health. That's right.
00:52:03.90\00:52:07.27
So, you've got to
get up off the couch
00:52:07.28\00:52:08.57
and do something,
because it pays dividends,
00:52:08.58\00:52:12.62
its medicine, it will help you.
00:52:12.63\00:52:15.13
Anything else you're doing,
00:52:15.14\00:52:17.05
coupled with exercise
will be better for you.
00:52:17.06\00:52:19.64
If you are eating
light, if you are getting rest,
00:52:19.65\00:52:21.96
if you're getting
good air and sunlight
00:52:21.97\00:52:23.29
and exercise it will help you,
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.17
it can't hurt you.
00:52:26.18\00:52:27.15
It cannot, in the
same way there are people
00:52:27.16\00:52:28.97
that talk about investments
00:52:28.98\00:52:30.14
in the stock
market you know that.
00:52:30.15\00:52:31.82
The greatest investment
is in your personal health
00:52:31.83\00:52:34.25
and well being,
because some people say,
00:52:34.26\00:52:36.61
well, I have
$45,0000, well, you can't walk.
00:52:36.62\00:52:40.40
I got a million
dollars investments,
00:52:40.41\00:52:42.03
but you can't see, yeah.
00:52:42.04\00:52:43.65
And you got there by abusing
00:52:43.66\00:52:44.89
your body with drug, and alcohol
00:52:44.90\00:52:47.18
and late night sleeping,
00:52:47.19\00:52:49.12
and things that we're
just pumping your adrenal up
00:52:49.13\00:52:51.98
one day and down
the other, there is a--
00:52:51.99\00:52:53.66
I went to a mall the other day
00:52:53.67\00:52:55.20
and we were so
thirsty and he said,
00:52:55.21\00:52:59.14
oh, great there
is a soda machine,
00:52:59.15\00:53:01.55
but then you can buy a water
00:53:01.56\00:53:03.06
and we wanted to get it water,
00:53:03.07\00:53:04.12
I'm not gonna
mentioned the kind,
00:53:04.13\00:53:05.86
we like the Sannine.
00:53:05.87\00:53:07.68
And so we said let's put that,
00:53:07.69\00:53:09.01
you know, money in
the, we put in there
00:53:09.02\00:53:11.31
and something it
comes out called blast.
00:53:11.32\00:53:15.38
And I said, I pressed this on,
00:53:15.39\00:53:17.12
but I didn't even to see
anything, I'm gonna blast.
00:53:17.13\00:53:20.66
Well, I read the
label, twice the sugar,
00:53:20.67\00:53:24.10
double the caffeine. Yeah.
00:53:24.11\00:53:26.62
And under that
there is ridiculous,
00:53:26.63\00:53:29.01
if you wanna feel
like your energy has been
00:53:29.02\00:53:31.46
boosted and last
longer during the day,
00:53:31.47\00:53:34.56
I still have
that can in my trunk,
00:53:34.57\00:53:36.17
I don't want to
anybody to see it,
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.31
to even think I drink
that stuff. Yeah, yeah.
00:53:37.32\00:53:39.41
Because we deplete
ourselves in one end
00:53:39.42\00:53:41.21
and hope that there
is more on the other.
00:53:41.22\00:53:43.01
It's like
cutting the blanket off
00:53:43.02\00:53:44.23
and sowing it to the other side
00:53:44.24\00:53:45.30
and say we have
a longer blanket.
00:53:45.31\00:53:46.35
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
haven't even gone into,
00:53:46.36\00:53:49.25
what to eat and what not to eat,
00:53:49.26\00:53:50.32
I think we're
giving general principles
00:53:50.33\00:53:51.66
and one that I tend to
abuse and I'm really getting
00:53:51.67\00:53:55.58
on myself about that is
adequate sleep, that's right.
00:53:55.59\00:53:57.79
Yeah, the exercise, you
eat right and go to bed,
00:53:57.80\00:54:01.93
this idea, I'm gonna night out,
00:54:01.94\00:54:03.22
you're burned it on this end,
00:54:03.23\00:54:05.94
you are cutting it off
the back end, that's right.
00:54:05.95\00:54:07.49
And having done
little study in this,
00:54:07.50\00:54:10.10
the kinds of problems,
00:54:10.11\00:54:12.43
John, that come
from lack of sleep,
00:54:12.44\00:54:14.47
the kinds of things you
are building up in your body,
00:54:14.48\00:54:17.24
where you are not
allowing your body
00:54:17.25\00:54:18.41
to do is
incredible, the kinds of aches,
00:54:18.42\00:54:21.51
and pains, and illnesses
that accrue from just not
00:54:21.52\00:54:24.55
going to bed or
going to bed too late.
00:54:24.56\00:54:26.57
Your body can't
function on four or five hours
00:54:26.58\00:54:29.17
of sleep a night,
you think you can. Right.
00:54:29.18\00:54:31.14
But sooner or later,
your body is gonna tell you,
00:54:31.15\00:54:33.29
I'm not having this
anymore, we're not gonna do it.
00:54:33.30\00:54:35.74
And I'm glad you mentioned
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that because after
after I came back from Africa,
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and I went to bed
every night I had routine.
00:54:38.24\00:54:40.08
It's hard for me
to break that routine
00:54:40.09\00:54:42.57
and go back to late
hours, but I've discovered that,
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when I wake up in the morning.
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When you get the adequate rest,
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you don't really
need an alarm clock
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because your body says,
"You've got enough, get up."
00:54:50.15\00:54:52.76
But when you throw
your body into tailspin,
00:54:52.77\00:54:54.98
you need an alarm
clock and people need coffee
00:54:54.99\00:54:57.76
to get themselves
going, they need sleeping pills
00:54:57.77\00:54:59.89
to stop themselves from going,
00:54:59.90\00:55:01.62
they're so boost
with caffeine all day long
00:55:01.63\00:55:03.78
that the body is racing,
00:55:03.79\00:55:04.88
then they've got to
press the breaks on with,
00:55:04.89\00:55:06.54
the sleeping pills
and you are not really
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functioning based on
the natural body chemistry.
00:55:09.58\00:55:11.81
Precisely. You've
beaten yourself up
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then you've
thrown yourself down,
00:55:13.27\00:55:14.75
you're like a ragdoll
that's tied to his string,
00:55:14.76\00:55:16.52
there is some
kid that has no sense
00:55:16.53\00:55:17.89
is pulling and
stopping, pulling and stopping.
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And that's why I want to end
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with this
particular text to show you
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that as we lay the
foundation for the principles,
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God is serious that our
bodies will last a longtime,
00:55:25.86\00:55:29.35
if we do with
that as He intends.
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Don't ignore the manuscript,
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don't ignore the manual.
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Romans 12 verse 1 and 2,
"I beseech you therefore,
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brethren, by
the mercies of God."
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God is saying, "Please
have mercy on yourself."
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You know that?
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"That you present your
bodies a living sacrifice."
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'Cause the opposite of
that is a death sacrifice. Yes.
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And you can't do
anything with that.
00:55:52.53\00:55:54.45
How should that
living sacrifice be holy?
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Acceptable to God
00:55:58.19\00:56:00.21
which is your
reasonable service.
00:56:00.22\00:56:01.87
You want to serve
God, you could serve Him
00:56:01.88\00:56:03.42
best with the body that works.
00:56:03.43\00:56:05.63
And verse 2, I don't
know if you're there,
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but it says "And do not
be conformed to this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind
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that you may
prove what is that good,
00:56:14.62\00:56:16.47
and acceptable, and
perfect will of God." Yes.
00:56:16.48\00:56:19.79
Registering on that,
00:56:19.80\00:56:20.95
how could we make this happen?
00:56:20.96\00:56:22.21
Powerful, one don't be
conformed to this world.
00:56:22.22\00:56:26.73
Don't be swallowed
up by popular culture,
00:56:26.74\00:56:28.99
what you see going on,
00:56:29.00\00:56:29.97
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind.
00:56:29.98\00:56:32.45
So you've got to
step out of the culture
00:56:32.46\00:56:35.21
that surrounds
you and answer to God
00:56:35.22\00:56:37.94
and order your life,
your mind, your soul,
00:56:37.95\00:56:40.81
your body in
accordance with God's will.
00:56:40.82\00:56:43.32
That's right. Yeah.
00:56:43.33\00:56:44.31
And it's gonna
make a difference,
00:56:44.32\00:56:45.29
you'll notice
here at House Calls,
00:56:45.30\00:56:46.47
we believe that firmly,
that's why we try to get
00:56:46.48\00:56:49.07
you notice
everything we did today
00:56:49.08\00:56:50.50
was from the word of God
given you solid principles
00:56:50.51\00:56:53.53
and it's like reading
for you from the manual made
00:56:53.54\00:56:57.60
by Ford or by, you know,
whatever car manufacture.
00:56:57.61\00:57:01.27
Follow these things
00:57:01.28\00:57:02.99
and the warranty
will not be voided.
00:57:03.00\00:57:06.27
The service plan will
stick. God's got a service plan.
00:57:06.28\00:57:09.13
So, friends,
follow these principles,
00:57:09.14\00:57:12.02
get the optimum
treatment from the body
00:57:12.03\00:57:14.24
that God intends for it to be,
00:57:14.25\00:57:16.16
because one day
when the Lord comes,
00:57:16.17\00:57:18.28
He's gonna make a
House Call on your life
00:57:18.29\00:57:20.89
and you want to meet
Him, not only in peace,
00:57:20.90\00:57:23.29
but in optimum
health and good health.
00:57:23.30\00:57:26.87
Make those decisions today
00:57:26.88\00:57:28.13
because we
believe that the coming
00:57:28.14\00:57:30.03
of our Lord is very, very near,
00:57:30.04\00:57:31.54
so have a great day in Christ.
00:57:31.55\00:57:33.69