¤ >> WELCOME BACK TO 3ABN, "TODAY 00:00:03.67\00:00:14.81 LIVE." YOU CAN TELL WE'RE LIVE 00:00:14.81\00:00:16.81 TELEVISION. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED. 00:00:16.81\00:00:19.35 I'LL USUALLY MORE ALERT THAN THAT. 00:00:19.35\00:00:21.68 I THINK MY EYES ARE DESERVING ME A LITTLE BIT. 00:00:21.68\00:00:24.79 IT WAS LIKE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE, AND YOU ARE OUT. 00:00:24.79\00:00:28.99 WE HAVE ASKED YOU TO CALL IN QUESTIONS. 00:00:28.99\00:00:31.63 WE'RE GETTING LOTS OF THEM NOW. SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO STAY ON 00:00:31.63\00:00:36.53 THIS SUBJECT MUCH LONGER, BUT IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 00:00:36.53\00:00:40.14 PEOPLE ARE ASKING US HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THIS IN THE CHURCH AND 00:00:40.14\00:00:45.24 HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THIS SITUATION? 00:00:45.24\00:00:49.04 SO I'M TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THE CHURCHES, AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT 00:00:49.04\00:00:52.38 THE OTHERS, BUT AT LEAST THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALITY THAT 00:00:52.38\00:00:55.82 WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. AND JOHN, THE STORY THAT I WAS 00:00:55.82\00:00:58.99 GETTING READY TO TELL YOU, WAS THAT A CHURCH HIRED A CHOIR 00:00:58.99\00:01:04.86 DIRECTOR, AND AFTER HE WAS THERE A WHILE, HE SAID TO THEM, 00:01:04.86\00:01:09.10 OPENLY, I'M GAY, A HOMOSEXUAL, AND, YOU KNOW, I DO LIVE TH 00:01:09.10\00:01:13.64 LIFESTYLE, BUT I STILL WANT TO BE YOUR CHOIR DIRECTOR, BECAUSE 00:01:13.64\00:01:16.91 I LOVE THE LORD AND I LOVE MUSIC, AND I LOVE THIS CHURCH. 00:01:16.91\00:01:22.14 AND THE CHURCH BOARD VOTED AND SAID WE CAN'T HAVE THAT. 00:01:22.14\00:01:25.38 AND WE'RE SORRY, YOU CAN COME TO THIS CHURCH, BUT WE CAN'T PUT 00:01:25.38\00:01:30.29 YOU IN LEADERSHIP, BECAUSE THAT SENDS A BAD MESSAGE THAT THIS 00:01:30.29\00:01:34.82 LIFESTYLE IS OKAY. SO THEY LET HIM GO. 00:01:34.82\00:01:37.06 BUT THE NEWSPAPERS AND THE MEDIA IN THE AREA, GOT AHOLD OF IT AND 00:01:37.06\00:01:41.86 SAID HOW TERRIBLE THIS CHURCH IS, THAT THEY CAN'T CARE ABOUT 00:01:41.86\00:01:45.63 THIS GUY, AND THIS IS A SHAME THAT THEY FIRED HIM. 00:01:45.63\00:01:49.34 SO ANOTHER CHURCH IN THE SAME AREA HIRED HIM AS THEIR CHOIR 00:01:49.34\00:01:54.41 DIRECTOR. AND THEY SAID WE LOVE EVERYBODY, 00:01:54.41\00:01:56.38 AND WE FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD HIRE HIM BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THE 00:01:56.38\00:02:00.32 COMMUNITY TO THINK THAT WE DON'T LOVE -- YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY. 00:02:00.32\00:02:03.18 SO THIS IS JUST A MESSAGE WE'RE SENDING. 00:02:03.18\00:02:05.65 SO YOU MAY LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY, BUT W THINK IT'S A 00:02:05.65\00:02:09.32 MESSAGE THAT WE LOVE PEOPLE. AND I SAID WHAT IF I WERE THAT 00:02:09.32\00:02:13.13 CHOIR DIRECTOR, AND JOHN, I COME TO YOUR CHURCH, AND I SAY JOHN, 00:02:13.13\00:02:17.13 I WOULD LOVE TO BE YOUR CHOIR DIRECTOR, BUT I'M AN ADULTER, 00:02:17.13\00:02:22.14 I'M AN OPEN ADULTER, BUT I LOVE THE CHURCH, RONNY, YOUR CHURCH 00:02:22.14\00:02:27.31 IN OKLAHOMA, I LOVE THE PEOPLE, I LOVE LEADING MUSIC, CAN I BE 00:02:27.31\00:02:33.62 YOUR CHOIR DIRECTOR. YOU WOULD TAKE IT TO THE CHURCH 00:02:33.62\00:02:43.16 BOARD AND THEY WILL SAY NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT. 00:02:43.16\00:02:46.39 OR I SAY I REALLY WANT TO BE THE TREASURER OF YOUR CHURCH, BUT I 00:02:46.39\00:02:52.80 STEAL A LITTLE BIT, IT'S JUST IN MY BLOOD. 00:02:52.80\00:02:55.60 BUT I TRY NOT TO. BUT I WANT TO BE OPEN WITH YOU, 00:02:55.60\00:03:00.98 I AM A THIEF, CAN I HAVE A JOB AS A TREASURER. 00:03:00.98\00:03:06.61 YOU WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM VOTING ME DOWN. 00:03:06.61\00:03:10.05 IF I SAY, I DO DRUGS, I WAS BORN WITH THAT. 00:03:10.05\00:03:13.19 MY MOTHER DID THEM. MY GRANDFATHER DID THEM. 00:03:13.19\00:03:16.26 I TRY TO CONTROL IT, BUT I THINK I SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO 00:03:16.26\00:03:20.23 DRUGS, BUT I STILL WANT TO BE IN LEADERSHIP POSITION AT YOUR 00:03:20.23\00:03:24.47 CHURCH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? 00:03:24.47\00:03:26.37 >> WE PREACH DELIVERANCE THROUGH CHRIST. 00:03:26.37\00:03:30.57 >> YOU WOULDN'T GIVE ME THE JOB. I CAN GO DOWN THE WHOLE LIST, 00:03:30.57\00:03:35.68 THEY WOULD TURN ME DOWN. BUT IF I SAY I'M HOMOSEXUAL, I 00:03:35.68\00:03:40.35 CAN'T HELP IT, THEN THEY HIRE YOU. 00:03:40.35\00:03:43.69 SO TO ME THAT'S AN AMAZING THING. 00:03:43.69\00:03:45.85 I PRAY FOR EVERYBODY. I HAVE PROBLEMS. 00:03:45.85\00:03:47.79 YOU HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT AS FAR AS CHURCHES GO, I THINK WE HAVE TO 00:03:47.79\00:03:51.49 GUARD WHO IS IN LEADERSHIP. NOBODY IS PERFECT, NONE OF US 00:03:51.49\00:03:57.37 ARE. BUT WITH AMERICA -- I WRITE THIS 00:03:57.37\00:04:02.27 IN MY NEW LITTLE BOOK, THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOMOSEXUALS AND 00:04:02.27\00:04:07.08 MURDERS IN AMERICA, YOU NAME THE CRIME, DRUG ADDICTS, AND GOD HAS 00:04:07.08\00:04:13.15 BLESSED AMERICA. >> [ INAUDIBLE ]. 00:04:13.15\00:04:14.72 >> YEAH, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. BUT WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE 00:04:14.72\00:04:19.22 NOW? BECAUSE IT BECAME LAW OF THE 00:04:19.22\00:04:21.99 LAND. SO I CALL THAT SPIRITUAL 00:04:21.99\00:04:25.56 VIGILANTLY. SO THE GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF 00:04:25.56\00:04:27.30 GOING THROUGH THE PEOPLE, MADE IT A FEDERAL CASE, PUSHED 00:04:27.30\00:04:30.80 THROUGH SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND MADE IT LAW OF THE LAND. 00:04:30.80\00:04:34.14 THAT IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO GOD. 00:04:34.14\00:04:36.97 WHEN CREATED TWO THINGS AT CREATION, THE SABBATH AS WE SAID 00:04:36.97\00:04:40.88 EARLIER -- AND YOU TRAMPLE ON ANY OF GOD'S LAWS AND YOU ARE 00:04:40.88\00:04:45.31 GOING TO REAP WHAT YOU SEW. SO ENOUGH OF THAT. 00:04:45.31\00:04:47.58 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO ON TO THESE QUESTIONS. 00:04:47.58\00:04:52.35 >> ONE THING I COULD ADD TO THAT. 00:04:52.35\00:04:55.46 YOU SAID HOW CAN I GET AWAY FROM THIS? 00:04:55.46\00:04:57.79 I DON'T WANT TO BE THIS WAY? I DON'T WANT TO LIVE THAT 00:04:57.79\00:05:03.47 LIFESTYLE. THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS 00:05:03.47\00:05:04.90 THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE. 00:05:04.90\00:05:07.64 IT IS YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN OR YOU CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF 00:05:07.64\00:05:12.21 GOD. THAT'S WHERE THE POWER IS RIGHT 00:05:12.21\00:05:14.14 THERE. YOU CAN TRY AND TRY AND TRY ON 00:05:14.14\00:05:16.14 YOUR OWN, AND NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL, BUT ONCE YOU HAVE 00:05:16.14\00:05:20.35 GIVEN IT TO GOD AND SURRENDERED TO HIM, AND BE BORN AGAIN, THEN 00:05:20.35\00:05:24.65 THE VICTORY TAKES PLACE, BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE GOD WORKING WITH 00:05:24.65\00:05:29.82 YOU, AS YOU COMMIT AND SURRENDER YOURSELF TO HIM. 00:05:29.82\00:05:34.50 SO THERE'S WHERE THE VICTORY IS. JUST LIKE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 00:05:34.50\00:05:38.50 THE MAN WHO WAS THE THIEF OR EMBEZELER, OR THE DRUG ADDICT OR 00:05:38.50\00:05:43.64 ANYONE ELSE, JESUS SAID YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN. 00:05:43.64\00:05:47.18 AND WHEN YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, YOU GET THAT VICTORY. 00:05:47.18\00:05:50.38 >> SPEAKING OF THAT HERE IS A QUESTION FROM NEW YORK. 00:05:50.38\00:05:53.52 WHAT ARE THE STEPS TO SALVATION? HOW DO YOU BE SAVED? 00:05:53.52\00:05:58.05 >> I THINK FAITH COMES BY HEARING, HEARING BY THE WORD OF 00:05:58.05\00:06:01.99 GOD. YOU HEAR THE WORD. 00:06:01.99\00:06:04.73 THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS TO CONVICT AND CONVINCE YOU, AND THEN IF 00:06:04.73\00:06:09.16 YOU BELIEVE AND CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, JESUS CHRIST IS THE 00:06:09.16\00:06:13.84 LORD, AND YOU JUST SIMPLY PRAY AND -- YOU KNOW, I'LL NEVER 00:06:13.84\00:06:18.17 FORGET THAT MY SISTER, WHO WAS A DRUG ADDICT FOR 20-SOME-ODD 00:06:18.17\00:06:23.11 YEARS, AND I PRAY SOD HARD FOR HER, AND I KEPT TELLING HER ALL 00:06:23.11\00:06:27.78 YOU HAVE TO DO IS TELL GOD YOU ARE TIRED OF BEING A SINNER, 00:06:27.78\00:06:31.99 THAT YOU -- YOU WANT HIM IN YOUR LIFE, AND ASK TO BE FILLED WITH 00:06:31.99\00:06:35.56 THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND I SAID HE WILL. 00:06:35.56\00:06:37.76 AND SHE WENT OUT IN THE BACKYARD OF MY MOTHER'S HOME AND THAT'S 00:06:37.76\00:06:41.76 WHAT SHE SAID IF IT'S TRUE WHAT MY SISTER SAYS THAT ALL I HAVE 00:06:41.76\00:06:45.63 TO DO IS TELL YOU, I'M A SINNER, I'M SICK OF SINNING. 00:06:45.63\00:06:50.57 I NEED SALVATION -- >> WHICH WE CALL THAT 00:06:50.57\00:06:54.64 REPENTANCE. >> THAT'S REPENTANCE. 00:06:54.64\00:06:56.78 AND SHE SAID FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS AND DELIVER YOUR HOLY 00:06:56.78\00:07:02.25 SPIRIT AND SHE WAS DELIVERED FROM DRUGS LIKE THAT FOR 30 00:07:02.25\00:07:05.85 YEARS. FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS OF HER 00:07:05.85\00:07:08.52 LIFE SHE NEVER DID DRUGS AGAIN. IT'S JUST ABOUT CONFESS AND 00:07:08.52\00:07:12.63 REPEN AND RECEIVE. >> AND WE HAVE GOT A FEW 00:07:12.63\00:07:16.90 SCRIPTURES FOR THOSE WATCHING. THAT MAYBE YOU WANT TO WRITE 00:07:16.90\00:07:20.27 THESE DOWN OR YOU CAN GET A COPY OF THIS PROGRAM IF YOU WOULD 00:07:20.27\00:07:23.97 LIKE. AND MAYBE GIVE US A FEW SK 00:07:23.97\00:07:27.68 SKRIM -- SCRIPTURES. >> WELL, THE LORD HAS LEAD MY 00:07:27.68\00:07:32.65 MIND ON A NEW CHANNEL -- NOT SOMETHING THAT IS NEW, BUT 00:07:32.65\00:07:37.75 DANNY, I HAVE LEARNED IN READING THE BIBLE AND THIS THEME IS ALL 00:07:37.75\00:07:41.69 THE WAY THROUGH THE BIBLE, WE CANNOT CHOOSE WHAT TO DO. 00:07:41.69\00:07:48.66 WE CAN ONLY CHOOSE WHO TO SERVE. ROMANS 6:16 IS ONE OF THE 00:07:48.66\00:07:54.94 PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE THAT SHOWS US THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO TYPES 00:07:54.94\00:07:59.24 OF INDIVIDUALS, SHELLEY IN THE WORLD, PASTOR SHELTON, THOSE WHO 00:07:59.24\00:08:05.48 ARE SLOOIFS TO SIN AND THOSE WHO ARE SLAVES TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:08:05.48\00:08:09.02 THERE IS NO THIRD CATEGORY. ROMANS 6:16, DO YOU NOT KNOW 00:08:09.02\00:08:15.26 THAT TO WHOM YOU PRESENT YOURSELF, YOU ARE THAT ONE'S 00:08:15.26\00:08:21.56 SLAVE WHOM YOU OBEY. VERSUS 17, BUT GOD BE THANKED 00:08:21.56\00:08:27.00 THAT THOUGH YOU WERE SLAVES TO SIN, YET YOU OBEY FROM THE HEART 00:08:27.00\00:08:32.61 THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE TO WHICH YOU WERE DELIVERED. 00:08:32.61\00:08:37.05 AND HAVE YOU BEEN SET FREE, NOW YOU HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO 00:08:37.05\00:08:42.42 RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO INWHEN YOU THE LORD IN, YOU 00:08:42.42\00:08:45.19 BECOME HIS SERVANT, AND THEN HE DELIVERS YOU FROM THE SIN -- NOT 00:08:45.19\00:08:49.29 JUST THE PENALTY OF SIN, BUT HE DELIVERS YOU FROM THE POWER OF 00:08:49.29\00:08:54.20 SIN. >> OKAY. 00:08:54.20\00:08:55.13 >> I HAVE A TEXT DANNY, 1 JOHN 5, AND WE TALK ABOUT DELIVERING 00:08:55.13\00:09:01.10 AND ACCEPTING THE SON STARTING AT VERSE 11. 00:09:01.10\00:09:06.07 THIS IS THE TESTIMONY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US ETERNAL LIFE AND 00:09:06.07\00:09:09.68 THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON, SO IT'S NO PLACE ELSE. 00:09:09.68\00:09:14.35 WE DON'T GET SAVED ANYPLACE ELSE BUT THROUGH TH SON. 00:09:14.35\00:09:20.19 HE WHO DOES NOT HAVE THE SON OF GOD DOES NOT HAVE LIFE. 00:09:20.19\00:09:22.96 AND THESE THINGS I HAVE WRITTEN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT 00:09:22.96\00:09:26.46 YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; THAT YOU MAY CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THE 00:09:26.46\00:09:31.90 NAME OF THE SON OF GOD. NOW THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT 00:09:31.90\00:09:35.40 WE HAVE IN HIM, THAT IF WE ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, 00:09:35.40\00:09:39.27 HE HEARS US, AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE HEARS US, WHATEVER WE CAN, WE 00:09:39.27\00:09:45.05 KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE PETITION THAT WE HAVE ASKED OF HIM. 00:09:45.05\00:09:48.25 SO, AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ASKING, RECEIVING, BELIEVING, 00:09:48.25\00:09:51.75 AND REALIZING THAT LIFE ONLY COMES TO US THROUGH THE SON, THE 00:09:51.75\00:09:55.26 SON OF GOD. >> AMEN. 00:09:55.26\00:09:58.46 AND, YOU KNOW, 1 JOHN 1:9 SAYS IF WE CONFESS HIS SINS HE IS 00:09:58.46\00:10:04.40 FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS. 00:10:04.40\00:10:07.00 BUT ROMANS 10:9 SAYS THIS, IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH THE 00:10:07.00\00:10:12.24 LORD JESUS AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART, AND BELIEVING IN JESUS 00:10:12.24\00:10:16.14 MEANS TO BE LIVING IN JESUS. THIS IS A BEEF THAT IS NOT JUST 00:10:16.14\00:10:20.78 A MENTAL SENSE, YEAH, I BELIEVE HE WAS THE SON OF GOD, AND YEAH, 00:10:20.78\00:10:24.62 HE DIED FOR THE SINS -- IT MEANS YOU BELIEVE HE DID IT FOR YOU, 00:10:24.62\00:10:28.86 AND YOU ARE WILLING TO SURRENDER CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE TO HIM. 00:10:28.86\00:10:32.86 SO IT SAYS IF YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD HAS RAISED 00:10:32.86\00:10:36.20 HIM FROM THE DEAD YOU WILL BE SAVED, FOR WITH THE HEART ONE 00:10:36.20\00:10:41.47 BELIEVES INTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS 00:10:41.47\00:10:46.44 MADE INTO SALVATION. SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT 00:10:46.44\00:10:49.24 WE JUST COME BEFORE THE LORD AND TALK TO HIM LIKE WE WOULD AS A 00:10:49.24\00:10:56.72 FRIEND. >> YES. 00:10:56.72\00:10:59.29 IT SAYS WILL WE BE SINNING? SOME PEOPLE SAY SINNING WILL 00:10:59.29\00:11:07.23 KEEP HAPPENING UNTIL JESUS COMES. 00:11:07.23\00:11:09.70 THE BIBLE SAYS ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF 00:11:09.70\00:11:14.10 GOD, BUT WHEN SIN KEEPS US OUT OF HEAVEN, TELL ME IF I'M WRONG, 00:11:14.10\00:11:20.11 IT'S WHEN WE REBEL AGAINST WHAT WE KNOW TO DO IS RIGHT. 00:11:20.11\00:11:23.58 IN OTHER WORDS WE ALL HAVE WEAKNESSES. 00:11:23.58\00:11:26.92 BECAUSE I FAIL ONE TIME OR TWO TIMES OR WHAT HAVE YOU, I FAIL, 00:11:26.92\00:11:30.95 AS LONG AS I'M REALLY TRULY SORRY AND I GO BACK TO JESUS, HE 00:11:30.95\00:11:37.89 WILL FORGIVE ME FROM THAT, RIGHT? 00:11:37.89\00:11:40.33 BUT IF I UNDERSTAND THIS RIGHT, AND YOU HELP ME, JOHN, BECAUSE 00:11:40.33\00:11:44.40 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE. 00:11:44.40\00:11:47.34 SOMEBODY SAYS THAT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN A MALE COMMITS 00:11:47.34\00:11:52.27 ADULTERY, NO, IT ISN'T? BUT EITHER ONE SAYS I KNOW WHAT 00:11:52.27\00:11:55.98 THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT I'M GOING TO DO WHAT I WANT ANYWAY, THAT'S 00:11:55.98\00:12:03.32 REBELIAN AGAINST GOD'S LAW, AND THAT'S WHEN SIN BECOMES DEATH. 00:12:03.32\00:12:08.12 >> RIGHT. >> HELP ME WITH THAT, Y'ALL. 00:12:08.12\00:12:11.03 >> WELL, THERE IS A SIN NATURE. THERE IS A SIN FLESH. 00:12:11.03\00:12:15.73 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE SIN FLESH UNTIL THE LORD GIVES US A 00:12:15.73\00:12:20.80 NEW BODY. HOW FAR BACK CAN WE ALL GO TO 00:12:20.80\00:12:24.84 REMEMBER THE KIND OF LIFE YOU USED TO LIVE BEFORE CHRIST, BUT 00:12:24.84\00:12:29.14 JESUS FIRST SAVED US FROM THE PENALTY OF SIN. 00:12:29.14\00:12:31.98 >> UH-HUH. >> WE NO LONGER HAVE DEATH 00:12:31.98\00:12:35.95 HANGING OVER OUR HEAD, THAT'S INSTANTANEOUS, BUT DAILY WE ARE 00:12:35.95\00:12:40.79 BEING SAVED FROM THE POWER OF SIN. 00:12:40.79\00:12:42.46 HERE IS THE KEY. WHEN WE SAY WE'LL BE SINNING 00:12:42.46\00:12:46.90 UNTIL JESUS COMING, WE'LL HAVE THE SIN NATURE, BUT THERE IS A 00:12:46.90\00:12:52.30 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTENTIONAL SIN AND STUMBLING. 00:12:52.30\00:12:55.64 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> IF YU PRACTICE SIN, YOU WILL 00:12:55.64\00:12:58.94 NOT BE SAVED. PRACTICING OF SIN IS WHERE YOU 00:12:58.94\00:13:03.08 LOSE -- WHOEVER IS BORN OF GOD, 1 JOHN 3:9 WHOEVER IS BORN OF 00:13:03.08\00:13:09.65 GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN, DOES NOT PRACTICE SIN, FOR HIS SIN 00:13:09.65\00:13:14.49 REMAINS IN HIM AND HE CANNOT KEEP ON PRACTICING SIN BECAUSE 00:13:14.49\00:13:18.06 HE IS BORN OF GOD. SO THE ONE WHO KEEPS PRACTICING 00:13:18.06\00:13:21.70 SIN AND SAYING I'M GOING TO KEEP PRACTICING SIN, THAT NOW BECOMES 00:13:21.70\00:13:28.24 INIQUITY, AND INIQUITY IS NOT A SIN THAT IS FORGIVABLE, BECAUSE 00:13:28.24\00:13:32.44 YOU ARE CONTINUING TO CRUCIFY THE SON OF GOD OVER AND OVER 00:13:32.44\00:13:36.98 AGAIN. BUT IF YOU STUMBLE THAT'S A 00:13:36.98\00:13:40.52 DIFFERENCE ALL TOGETHER. ONE PASTOR SAID, LOOKING AT THE 00:13:40.52\00:13:44.19 MARK, THERE'S AIMING TOWARDS THE MARK, THERE IS REFUSING TO AIM 00:13:44.19\00:13:47.59 AT THE MARK. LOOKING AT THE MARK, CHRIST, THE 00:13:47.59\00:13:50.73 PERFECT MARK. AIMING AT THE MARK AND MISSING 00:13:50.73\00:13:53.19 AS WE HAVE ALL FALLEN SHORT, BUT REFUSING TO AIM IS INNICKTY. 00:13:53.19\00:13:58.83 >> I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT DANNY, I HAVE A SERMON WHERE I TALK 00:13:58.83\00:14:05.44 ABOUT' BEADENCE. I ALWAYS SAY OBEDIENCE IS AN 00:14:05.44\00:14:10.81 ATTITUDE, BECAUSE IF WE START MAKING THIS BIG LONG LIST, 00:14:10.81\00:14:17.05 BECOULD NEVER COVER EVERYTHING. >> THAT'S TRUE. 00:14:17.05\00:14:19.25 >> BUT IF WE SAY THAT OBEDIENCE IS THE ATTITUDE THAT WE HAVE. 00:14:19.25\00:14:24.36 I STUMBLE SOMETIMES, AND I GO BACK TO GOD AND SAY I DIDN'T 00:14:24.36\00:14:28.90 WANT TO DO THAT. WILL YOU FORGIVE ME.-SO WHEN I SIN IN AN 00:14:28.90\00:14:34.64 ATTITUDE OF OBEDIENCE, I COME TO GOD AND I SAY I DON'T WANT TO DO 00:14:34.64\00:14:39.54 THAT, I'M SORRY, FORGIVE ME AND START AGAIN. 00:14:39.54\00:14:42.78 SO IT'S NOT JUST THIS LONG LISTS OF DOS AND DON'TS. 00:14:42.78\00:14:47.15 THE ATTITUDE OF OBEDIENCE IS WHERE WE NEED TO BE LIVING IN 00:14:47.15\00:14:51.65 THAT ATTITUDE OF OBEDIENCE. >> OKAY. 00:14:51.65\00:14:54.29 >> AND WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. OBEDIENCE DOES NOT SAVE US, BUT 00:14:54.29\00:14:58.66 WHEN WE COME INTO -- THE UNIFYING THEME OF THE SCRIPTURE 00:14:58.66\00:15:01.76 IS THAT GOD IS A COVENANT MAKER AND A COVENANT KEEPER. 00:15:01.76\00:15:07.64 AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE COVNANT THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO US. 00:15:07.64\00:15:12.21 SO WHEN WE COME INTO CHRIST, IF WE'RE ABIDING IN CHRIST, AND WE 00:15:12.21\00:15:16.91 RECEIVED GOD'S LOVE IN THIS NEW COVENANT, GOD EXPECTS A RESPONSE 00:15:16.91\00:15:22.38 OF LOYALTY US. JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14:15, IF YOU 00:15:22.38\00:15:28.29 LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 1 JOHN 00:15:28.29\00:15:35.73 2:9, THAT HE WHO SAYS THAT HE IS IN CHRIST OUGHT ALSO HIMSELF TO 00:15:35.73\00:15:44.04 WALK AS CHRIST WALKED. WE KNOW 1 FIPIANS 12 AND 13, 00:15:44.04\00:15:50.71 OBEDIENCE IS BY GRACE. WE CANNOT OBEY IN OUR OWN POWER. 00:15:50.71\00:15:58.55 FIP -- FA LIPPIANS 1:6 SAYS THAT HE WILL COMPLETE THE GOOD 00:15:58.55\00:16:08.86 WORK THAT HE HAS BEGUN IN US. BUT I JUST WANT TO POINT THIS 00:16:08.86\00:16:12.87 OUT, BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY WHY DO YOU TALK ABOUT 00:16:12.87\00:16:19.01 OBEDIENCE. IN -- THIS IS 1 JOHN 2:3-4. 00:16:19.01\00:16:23.98 IT SAYS BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM. 00:16:23.98\00:16:28.65 IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, HE WHO SAYS I KNOW HIM -- AND YOU 00:16:28.65\00:16:35.09 HAVE GOT TO KNOW CHRIST TO BE SAVED -- HE WHO SAYS I KNOW HIM, 00:16:35.09\00:16:39.26 AND DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR, AND THE 00:16:39.26\00:16:42.66 TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM. BUT WHOEVER KEEPS HIS WORD TRULY 00:16:42.66\00:16:46.94 THE LOVE OF GOD IS PERFECTED IN HIM. 00:16:46.94\00:16:49.57 BY THIS, WE KNOW WE ARE IN HIM. AND SALVATION IS FOUND ONLY HIM. 00:16:49.57\00:16:55.48 >> ALL RIGHT. ARE WE READY TO MOVE ON? 00:16:55.48\00:16:58.11 >> I HAVE TO ADD ONE MORE THIN TO THAT DANNY. 00:16:58.11\00:17:04.39 CAN I SHARE A QUOTE REAL QUICKLY. 00:17:04.39\00:17:06.86 >> SURE. >> THIS ONE IS SO APROPOS TO 00:17:06.86\00:17:10.19 THIS QUESTION. TALKING ABOUT OBEDIENCE, SERVING 00:17:10.19\00:17:13.06 THE LORD, KEEPING HIS COMM COMMA 00:17:13.06\00:17:18.63 COMMANDMENTS. THIS QUOTATION BLEW MY MIND. 00:17:18.63\00:17:21.64 IT SAYS IN BOOK TEMPERANCE 1-12. IT SAYS WE CANNOT CHANGE OUR 00:17:21.64\00:17:27.68 HEARTS. WE CANNOT CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS, 00:17:27.68\00:17:29.81 OUR IMPULSES, OUR AFFECTIONS. WE CANNOT MAKE OURSELVES PURE. 00:17:29.81\00:17:38.65 BUT WE CAN CHOOSE TO SERVE GOD. >> OKAY. 00:17:38.65\00:17:42.16 >> WE CAN GIVE HIM OUR WILL AND THEN HE WILL WORK IN US TO DO 00:17:42.16\00:17:47.30 HIS WILL. JOSHUA DIDN'T SAY CHOOSE YOU 00:17:47.30\00:17:49.80 THIS DAY WHAT YOU WILL DO. HE SAID CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM 00:17:49.80\00:17:57.34 YOU WILL SERVE. WHEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, 00:17:57.34\00:17:58.51 WHAT IS THE MESSAGE TO THE PHARAOH, LET MY PEOPLE THAT THEY 00:17:58.51\00:18:03.61 MAY SERVE ME. THE GOD THAT YOU SERVE IS ABLE 00:18:03.61\00:18:09.32 TO DELIVER YOU. THE GOD WHOM YOU SERVE HAS 00:18:09.32\00:18:12.92 DELIVERED YOU. WHEN YOU CHOOSE WHO TO SERVE, 00:18:12.92\00:18:16.42 GET THIS, INSTEAD OF WHAT TO DO, HE COMES IN TO WILL AND TO DO, 00:18:16.42\00:18:22.36 TO WILL AND TO DO. >> THERE YOU GO. 00:18:22.36\00:18:24.90 >> WE CAN'T WILL. WE LEAN OUR WILL ON HIS SIDE. 00:18:24.90\00:18:28.44 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. IF I JOIN YOUR BASKETBALL TEAM, 00:18:28.44\00:18:33.27 I KNOW WHO MY COACH IS GOING TO BE, I KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING TO 00:18:33.27\00:18:36.88 PLAY GAMES, WHAT MY UNIFORM IS GOING TO BE -- 00:18:36.88\00:18:40.98 >> AND WHO TO PASS TOO. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:18:40.98\00:18:43.15 >> DON'T LEAVE THAT. >> AND WHO NOT TO PASS TO. 00:18:43.15\00:18:47.19 >> JOHN AND I BOTH LOVE TO SHOOT. 00:18:47.19\00:18:51.36 >> YOU DON'T WIN BY DRIBBLING, BUT IF I JOIN THE LAKERS, 00:18:51.36\00:18:56.33 EVERYTHING IS SET BEFORE I JOIN THEM. 00:18:56.33\00:18:59.73 I DON'T CHOOSE MY STADIUM, MY UNIFORM, MY CITY. 00:18:59.73\00:19:03.54 WHEN I CHOOSE THE LORD, EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM, HE COMES 00:19:03.54\00:19:07.38 IN TO WILL AND TO DO. WE HAVE TO SIMPLY CHOOSE WHO TO 00:19:07.38\00:19:14.35 SERVE. >> AMEN. 00:19:14.35\00:19:15.75 HERE IS A QUESTION, AND AGAIN, IT GETS US BACK TO WHERE WE WERE 00:19:15.75\00:19:20.76 EARLIER, BUT IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. 00:19:20.76\00:19:23.93 I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT MY CHURCH THAT MY HUSBAND AND I GO 00:19:23.93\00:19:27.60 TO WHEN MY HEALTH ALLOWS ME. IT IS GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE 00:19:27.60\00:19:32.07 OUR CHURCH ACCEPTED A WOMAN WHO IS HAVING A SEX CHANGE AS A 00:19:32.07\00:19:35.64 MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH. I KNOW THERE WILL COME A TIME 00:19:35.64\00:19:38.37 WHEN WE WILL HAVE TO LEAVE THE CHURCH, BECAUSE OF WHAT 00:19:38.37\00:19:42.48 REVELATIONS SAYS. COME OF OUT HER MY PEOPLE. 00:19:42.48\00:19:47.08 MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHEN THEY SHOULD LEAVE A CHURCH. 00:19:47.08\00:19:54.86 I ASKED MY HUSBAND, WHAT IF THIS MAN WANTS TO MARRY A WOMAN 00:19:54.86\00:20:03.93 BECAUSE SHE THINKS SHE IS A MAN. I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO HANDLE 00:20:03.93\00:20:09.57 THIS. MY MAIN CONCERN, THOUGH, IS WHEN 00:20:09.57\00:20:12.64 ONE SHOULD LEAVE THE CHURCH IF IT EVER COMES TO THIS. 00:20:12.64\00:20:15.48 AND SO I KNOW THIS CAN BE A VERY TOUCHY TYPE SUBJECT, BUT CAN'T 00:20:15.48\00:20:21.72 WE STICK BACK TO WHERE WE WANT TO BELONG WHERE THE WORSHIP IN 00:20:21.72\00:20:29.22 SPIRIT AND TRUTH. THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER CHURCH 00:20:29.22\00:20:32.06 YOU CAN GO TO, MAYBE IN THE SAME -- YOU KNOW, WITH THE SAME 00:20:32.06\00:20:35.70 BELIEFS, BUT JOHN, YOU ARE A PASTOR, WHAT DO YOU SAY IF THIS 00:20:35.70\00:20:40.10 IS HAPPENING AND THIS IS ACCEPTED, AND THE PASTOR MARRIES 00:20:40.10\00:20:44.91 THIS PERSON, AND ALL OF THAT. WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE DO? 00:20:44.91\00:20:48.21 >> IF YOU STUDY THE ISRAELITES, WHENEVER THEY CREATED AN 00:20:48.21\00:20:56.12 ALLIANCE WITH SIN, IT AFFECTED THE ENTIRE CAMP. 00:20:56.12\00:21:01.96 NO ONE IS BLESSED BY THAT. BUT HERE -- I THINK I ADDRESSED 00:21:01.96\00:21:07.60 SOMETHING LIKE THIS -- YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE. 00:21:07.60\00:21:10.73 THE LORD TALKS ABOUT THE FIVE WIVES, AND THE FIVE FOOLISH. 00:21:10.73\00:21:16.47 WHEN THE SHAKING -- HEBREWS 12 TALKS ABOUT THIS, THE LORD IS 00:21:16.47\00:21:22.11 GOING TO SHAKE THE RIGHTEOUS IN AND SHAKE THE SIN OUT. 00:21:22.11\00:21:25.68 I WOULD NOT PUT ANYONE IN LEADERSHIP THAT IS KNOWINGLY 00:21:25.68\00:21:29.12 HAVING A SEX CHANGE OPERATION, BECAUSE I HAVE NOW BECOME A 00:21:29.12\00:21:34.12 PARTAKER OF THAT VERY SIN. WHAT MAKES THIS SO CRAZY 00:21:34.12\00:21:38.43 DELICATE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR ANYBODY 00:21:38.43\00:21:42.50 ELSE, BUT I HAVE IN MY FAMILY SOMEONE WHO IS ADMITTEDLY 00:21:42.50\00:21:47.47 HOMOSEXUAL, BUT I LOVE THAT PERSON, BUT THEY KNOW I 00:21:47.47\00:21:51.21 DON'T -- I DON'T CONDONE THE SIN, AND I THINK THAT WHAT IS 00:21:51.21\00:21:55.04 HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD TODAY IS WE'RE TIPTOEING AROUND THE SIN 00:21:55.04\00:22:01.22 AND NOT CARING ENOUGH ABOUT THE PERSON TO LEAD THAT PERSON TO 00:22:01.22\00:22:04.79 ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE LORD CAN DELIVER HIM OR HER FROM 00:22:04.79\00:22:07.02 ANYTHING. BUT I WOULDN'T -- I WOULDN'T 00:22:07.02\00:22:09.02 TAKE THAT ROLE THAT THE PASTOR HAS TAKEN BEFORE PERFORMING A 00:22:09.02\00:22:14.46 MARRIAGE BY SEASON WHO IS GOING TO HAVE A SEX CHANGE, I WOULD 00:22:14.46\00:22:18.07 DON'T THAT. BECAUSE NOW I'M ACCOUNTABLE. 00:22:18.07\00:22:20.90 THE SIN OF CO-MISSION. I'M ACCOUNTABLE NOW FOR 00:22:20.90\00:22:24.97 PARTICIPATING IN THAT. >> RONNY WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? 00:22:24.97\00:22:27.91 >> I WAS THINKING VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. 00:22:27.91\00:22:31.98 WHENEVER A CHURCH HAS GONE SO FAR AWAY FROM THE WORLD OF GOD, 00:22:31.98\00:22:35.88 THERE IS A TIME WHERE YOU HAVE TO SAY I CAN NO LONGER BE A PART 00:22:35.88\00:22:39.19 OF THIS. YOU MAY SPEAK TO THE PASTOR, THE 00:22:39.19\00:22:42.56 ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, GET THE LEADERSHIP TOGETHER AND SAY THIS 00:22:42.56\00:22:45.83 IS WHAT I SEE GOING ON. I CAN'T BE PART OF THIS. 00:22:45.83\00:22:49.30 AND MAYBE SOME OTHERS ARE THINKING THE SAME THING. 00:22:49.30\00:22:51.97 >> RIGHT. >> THEY MAY NOT BE THE ONLY ONE 00:22:51.97\00:22:55.94 THINKING THAT. BUT AT SOME POINT IF THE CHURCH 00:22:55.94\00:22:58.57 DOES NOT DEAL WITH IT CORRECTLY, BIBLICALLY THEN IT'S TIME TO 00:22:58.57\00:23:04.88 LEAVE. >> BUT IF I UNDERSTOOD THE 00:23:04.88\00:23:07.65 QUESTION, IT'S THAT THE PERSON IS WANTING TO COME INTO THEIR 00:23:07.65\00:23:10.59 CHURCH, BUT IT WAS A HYPOTHETICAL ABOUT WHAT IF IN 00:23:10.59\00:23:14.72 THE FUTURE THIS PERSON SHOULD WANT TO MARRY. 00:23:14.72\00:23:18.13 I THNK WE HAVE TO BE SO CAREFUL -- GOD IS SO LOVING AND 00:23:18.13\00:23:23.70 OPENINGLY -- RECEIVES US FOR WHO WE ARE. 00:23:23.70\00:23:27.60 WE ALSO TO BE OPEN AND LOVING TO RECEIVE PEOPLE. 00:23:27.60\00:23:32.27 NOW GOD DOESN'T LEAVE US IN OUR STATE OF SIN, BECAUSE JESUS CAME 00:23:32.27\00:23:35.91 TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 00:23:35.91\00:23:38.25 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO I THINK THAT WE 00:23:38.25\00:23:40.25 NEED -- YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT -- AT A CHURCH THAT WE WENT 00:23:40.25\00:23:44.52 TO IN DALLAS, TEXAS, THERE WERE ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT HOMOSEXUALS 00:23:44.52\00:23:50.89 WHO CAME INTO THE CHURCH. AND WE LOVED ON THEM. 00:23:50.89\00:23:53.73 >> IN THE RIGHT WAY, I MIGHT ADD. 00:23:53.73\00:23:57.23 >> RIGHT. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:23:57.23\00:23:58.50 >> JUST SO NO ONE IS CONFUSED. >> BUT MY POINT IS, THAT FIVE 00:23:58.50\00:24:04.07 STAYED AND THE OTHERS LEFT, AND ALL FIVE WENT STRAIGHT. 00:24:04.07\00:24:07.48 >> UH-HUH. >> AND FOUR OF THOSE FIVE HAD 00:24:07.48\00:24:11.05 BEEN SEXUALLY ABUSED AS CHILDREN. 00:24:11.05\00:24:14.42 VERY CONFUSED. VERY WOUNDED. 00:24:14.42\00:24:16.75 VERY HURT. AND THE INTERESTING THING THAT I 00:24:16.75\00:24:18.85 WAS READING RECENTLY, WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, OR 00:24:18.85\00:24:22.89 PEOPLE HAVING THESE SEXUAL CHANGES, A LOT OF TIMES THEY HAD 00:24:22.89\00:24:27.20 BEEN INFLUENCED AT AN EARLY AGE, AND PARENTS HAVE GONE AHEAD AND 00:24:27.20\00:24:32.77 SAID, WELL, IF YOU THINK THAT'S IT -- THEY START THEM ON 00:24:32.77\00:24:38.87 HORMONES AND DO THE DIFFERENT THINGS. 00:24:38.87\00:24:41.41 SADLY, THEY HAVE MORE THAN TRIPLE THE SUICIDE RATE OF EVEN 00:24:41.41\00:24:46.58 OVER HOMOSEXUALS, AND THEN -- AND WITHIN TEN 00:24:46.58\00:24:50.65 YEARS -- LIKE I FORGET -- IT WAS A HIGH PERCENTAGE, CLOSE TO 90% 00:24:50.65\00:24:54.89 OF THEM ARE REGRETTING. THE FIRST FEW YEARS IT'S LIKE 00:24:54.89\00:24:59.23 OKAY, BUT THEN THEY BEGIN REGRETTING AND WISH THEY HAD 00:24:59.23\00:25:02.56 NEVER DONE IT. >> I THINK WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS 00:25:02.56\00:25:05.90 WHAT WE KIND OF SAID EARLIER ABOUT THE UNITED STATES WHEN 00:25:05.90\00:25:09.64 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BECAME LAW OF THE LAND, BUT AS LONG AS A 00:25:09.64\00:25:13.24 PERSON COMES IN, WHETHER THEY ARE TRANSGENDER -- NO MATTER 00:25:13.24\00:25:17.88 WHAT THEY CALL THEMSELVES, AND THEY ARE SEEKING TRUTH, AND WANT 00:25:17.88\00:25:24.05 HELP, WE SHOULD HELP THEM. BUT WE DON'T CONDONE WHAT THEY 00:25:24.05\00:25:28.49 ARE DOING, BY PUTTING THEM IN LEADERSHIP. 00:25:28.49\00:25:31.09 BUT THAT'S WHAT A CHURCH IS ALL ABOUT IS FOR SINNER. 00:25:31.09\00:25:34.56 THAT'S WHY I GO TO CHURCH. IF I WERE PERFECT, I WOULDN'T 00:25:34.56\00:25:38.47 GO. I GO BECAUSE I'M A SINNER, 00:25:38.47\00:25:40.97 RIGHT? SO I THINK, AGAIN, WE NEED TO 00:25:40.97\00:25:43.20 LOVE EVERYBODY. INCLUDING THESE. 00:25:43.20\00:25:45.44 I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW -- I MEAN TO ME I WOULD BE HONEST, THAT'S 00:25:45.44\00:25:50.81 FINE, BUT I DON'T WANT SOMEBODY IN WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTER OR 00:25:50.81\00:25:55.38 TRINITY OR SOMEBODY ELSE, WHO IS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX SAYING I 00:25:55.38\00:25:59.25 FEEL LIKE A WOMAN TODAY. I'M JUST NOT GOING TO GO FOR 00:25:59.25\00:26:03.76 THAT. WHATEVER THEIR NEEDS ARE -- WE 00:26:03.76\00:26:05.63 ALL HAVE NEEDS SO WE NEED TO BE SYMPATHETIC WITH OTHERS, BUT 00:26:05.63\00:26:11.33 DON'T ENFORCE OR SUPPORT WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 00:26:11.33\00:26:14.10 >> MAY I SA SOMETHING THAT IS JUST IN MY HEART. 00:26:14.10\00:26:17.11 >> UH-HUH. >> AS I SAID, WE NEED TO BE 00:26:17.11\00:26:20.41 LOVING, BUT AT YOUR CHURCH IF YOU SAY, HAVE A PEDOPHILE WHO 00:26:20.41\00:26:24.61 SHOWS UP, AND MAYBE THEY HAVE SERVED TIME, AND THEY ARE OUT, 00:26:24.61\00:26:28.75 AND THEY ARE TRYING TO CHANGE, AND YOU SEE A CHANGE IN THEM, 00:26:28.75\00:26:32.79 AND WELCOME THEM IN TO LOVE THEM WITH A SPIRITUAL LOVE, BUT DO 00:26:32.79\00:26:40.96 NOT BECOME NAIVE. I THINK THAT ANY TIME -- IF A 00:26:40.96\00:26:44.60 PEDOPHILE WERE TO JOIN THE CHURCH -- I MEAN, WONDERFUL, BUT 00:26:44.60\00:26:49.44 YOU SHOULD ASSIGN THEM A BATHROOM PARTNER. 00:26:49.44\00:26:52.61 THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO INTO A BATHROOM ALONE. 00:26:52.61\00:26:56.54 WE NEED TO BE -- HOW -- GENTLE AS A DOVE BUT -- 00:26:56.54\00:27:02.38 >> WISE AS A SERPENT -- >> YES, AND HARMLESS AS A DOVE. 00:27:02.38\00:27:06.22 >> ACCOUNTABILITY. >> ACCOUNTABILITY. 00:27:06.22\00:27:08.09 >> I CAN TELL A LITTLE STORY LIKE THAT AT OUR CHURCH IN 00:27:08.09\00:27:12.03 OKLAHOMA. I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 00:27:12.03\00:27:13.66 A MAN WHO HAD SERVED QUITE A BIT OF TIME FOR CHILD PEDOPHILIA. 00:27:13.66\00:27:18.60 AND HE WAS COMING TO OUR CHURCH, AND EVERYTHING WAS GOING JUST 00:27:18.60\00:27:23.61 GREAT UNTIL I SAW HIM ROUGH HOUSING WITH ONE OF THE BOYS OF 00:27:23.61\00:27:27.18 THE CHURCH, A YOUNG BOY. AND I FELT I HAD TO TALK TO THE 00:27:27.18\00:27:31.31 MAN. I SAID WE LOVE YOU HERE. 00:27:31.31\00:27:33.85 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU ARE COMING. WE HOPE YOU WON'T BE OFFENDED, 00:27:33.85\00:27:37.72 BUT AS A GUARDIAN OF THE FLOCK, AS THE SHEPHERD OF THE FLOCK, 00:27:37.72\00:27:43.43 YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO STEP BACK FROM THE KIDS. 00:27:43.43\00:27:46.06 I SAID I HOPE YOU ARE NOT OFFENDED. 00:27:46.06\00:27:48.46 WE LOVE YOU HERE. WE HOPE YOU'LL KEEP COMING, BUT 00:27:48.46\00:27:52.17 WHEN YOU ARE HERE, YOU NEED TO STEP BACK FROM THE KIDS. 00:27:52.17\00:27:55.70 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> BECAUSE WE ARE THE SHEPPARDS 00:27:55.70\00:27:59.44 OF THE FLOCK, AND WE HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR THE KIDS. 00:27:59.44\00:28:03.68 AND HE DIDN'T COME BACK TO MY CHURCH NO MORE, BUT HE WENT TO 00:28:03.68\00:28:08.55 ANOTHER ONE OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCHES, WHICH WAS GOOD. 00:28:08.55\00:28:12.72 BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE A STATEMENT AND STAND FOR WHAT IS WRITE. 00:28:12.72\00:28:16.42 >> SOMEONE JUST WROTE IN, AND I SHOULD HAVE SAI THIS ALREADY, 00:28:16.42\00:28:21.93 BUT DARE TO DREAM HAS SOME GREAT PROGRAMMING COMING OUT. 00:28:21.93\00:28:26.43 IT IS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, GAY AND LESBIANS WHO 00:28:26.43\00:28:31.97 REALLY -- REALLY WEE IN THAT LIFESTYLE AND LIVED IT FOR 00:28:31.97\00:28:35.04 YEARS, BUT CAME TO THE LORD AND NOW IT'S THEIR MISSION AND 00:28:35.04\00:28:38.25 MINISTRY TO HELP OTHERS WHO ARE THERE, SO HELP SAY, LOOK, YOU 00:28:38.25\00:28:42.35 CAN OVER COME THIS. IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN'T 00:28:42.35\00:28:46.15 OVERCOME, BECAUSE GOD CAN GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER SIN. 00:28:46.15\00:28:50.56 SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO WATCH DARE TO DREAM, LOOK UP THE 00:28:50.56\00:28:55.80 COMING OUT MINISTRIES. THIS CALLER -- WE'LL TRY TO GET 00:28:55.80\00:29:00.07 THROUGH A FEW MORE QUESTIONS. WOW, THE TIME IS GOING SO FAST. 00:29:00.07\00:29:04.21 THIS ONE SAYS IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REPENTANCE IF 00:29:04.21\00:29:08.74 YOU MISSED THE RAPTURE? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:29:08.74\00:29:13.48 >> OKAY. >> FIRST OF ALL THERE IS NO 00:29:13.48\00:29:16.02 RAPTURE. THERE IS NO SECRET RAPTURE, AND 00:29:16.02\00:29:18.32 I THINK THAT'S MORE SPECIFICALLY WHAT THE PERSON IS TALKING 00:29:18.32\00:29:21.82 ABOUT. THERE'S NO SECRET RAPTURE. 00:29:21.82\00:29:24.29 >> I HOPE YOU HAVE SOME SCRIPTURE -- 00:29:24.29\00:29:26.56 >> OH, A LOT OF SCRIPTURE. >> THAT'S WIDELY, WIDELY -- 00:29:26.56\00:29:29.86 >> I'LL START WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT -- SHELLEY GO TO FIRST 00:29:29.86\00:29:35.87 THESSALONIANS -- >> THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, 00:29:35.87\00:29:39.54 AND MY MIND WENT BLANK. >> THIS WA STARTED BY FRANCISCO 00:29:39.54\00:29:45.18 AND LOUISE WHO WERE COMMISSIONED -- 00:29:45.18\00:29:47.95 >> JESUIT PRIESTS. >> JESUIT PRIESTS TO TAKE THE 00:29:47.95\00:29:53.52 EYES OF THE PEOPLE OFF OF THE CHURCH OF ROME IN THE DARK AGES. 00:29:53.52\00:29:57.53 AND THE ANTICHRIST WHO THEY IDENTIFIED CLEARLY, THE CHURCH 00:29:57.53\00:30:02.96 OF ROME IDENTIFIED EVERY CATEGORY. 00:30:02.96\00:30:05.37 EVERY CATEGORY FIT. TO GET THE PEOPLE'S EYES OFF OF 00:30:05.37\00:30:09.60 THE CHURCH THEY COMMISSIONED TWO JESUIT PREACHES TO SAY WHERE ARE 00:30:09.60\00:30:17.18 THEY GOING TO FIT? ALL OF THE PROPHECIES OF 00:30:17.18\00:30:25.25 REVELATION HAPPENED ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST. 00:30:25.25\00:30:27.32 SO THEY POINTED TO THE FUTURE AND SAID, WELL, THIS ANTICHRIST 00:30:27.32\00:30:30.89 IS GOING TO COME IN THE FUTURE AFTER THE RAPTURE, SO 00:30:30.89\00:30:35.46 THEY -- THEY CHOSE A A -- PROPHECY. 00:30:35.46\00:30:47.41 SO ONLY BY CHOOSING THE WRONG DATE IN DANIEL 9 ABOUT THE 00:30:47.41\00:30:49.21 REBUILDING OF JERUSALEM, THEY SAID, WELL, WE FALL ONE WEEK 00:30:49.21\00:30:53.08 SHORT OF THIS PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED, AND THEN THEY SAID AT 00:30:53.08\00:30:56.42 THE BEGINNING OF THIS WEEK, WAY IN THE FUTURE, THE CHURCH IS 00:30:56.42\00:31:01.29 GOING TO BE STHACH -- SNATCHED AWAY, THE ANTICHRIST IS GOING TO 00:31:01.29\00:31:08.43 MAKE A PLEDGE OR PACT WITH THE JEWS AND THE WORLD WILL BE 00:31:08.43\00:31:13.37 CONVERTED. EVEN THE CONTEMPORARIES -- A MAN-BY THE NAME OF -- OH, HIS NAME 00:31:13.37\00:31:19.14 JUST ESCAPED MY MIND. CYRUS SCOFIELD, WHICH WE HAVE 00:31:19.14\00:31:32.22 THE SCOFIELD BIBLE. TODAY IT'S AMAZING -- IT'S NOT A 00:31:32.22\00:31:39.03 SCRIPTURAL TEACHING. THERE IS NO SECRET SNATCHING 00:31:39.03\00:31:42.30 AWAY OF THE CHURCH. >> SO IF SOMEBODY IS VIEWING, 00:31:42.30\00:31:46.10 THEY CAN'T TURN TO CERTAIN SCRIPTURES AND SAY THIS IS THE 00:31:46.10\00:31:50.01 SECRET RAPTURE. >> YEAH. 00:31:50.01\00:31:52.61 OKAY. >> GO AHEAD. 00:31:52.61\00:31:53.58 >> LET ME JUST READ THIS ONE TO YOU, AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT 00:31:53.58\00:31:57.68 SCRIPTURE. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU TWO 00:31:57.68\00:32:02.55 ACTUALLY. 1ST THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, 00:32:02.55\00:32:07.36 BEGINNING WITH VERSE 15, IT SAYS FOR WE SAY THIS TO YOU, BY THE 00:32:07.36\00:32:13.36 WORD OF THE LORD THAT WE WHO ARE LIVE AND REMAIN UNTIL THE COMING 00:32:13.36\00:32:19.17 OF THE LORD JESUS, WILL BE NO MEANS PRECEDE THOSE WHO ARE 00:32:19.17\00:32:25.11 ASLEEP. LET ME STOP HERE. 00:32:25.11\00:32:26.88 THERE IS GOING TO BE TWO CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE. 00:32:26.88\00:32:30.45 THE BIBLE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT THERE ARE 00:32:30.45\00:32:33.98 PEOPLE WHO ARE SLEEPING, JESUS SAID IN JOHN 28 ALL WHO ARE IN 00:32:33.98\00:32:39.82 THE GRAVE WILL HEAR MY VOICE. SO THE BIBLE REFERS TO DEATH AS 00:32:39.82\00:32:47.93 A SLEEP. YOU GO TO SLEEP AND THE NEXT 00:32:47.93\00:32:52.00 CONTRA SPOT YOU HAVE IS JESUS -- YOU HEAR JESUS VOICE. 00:32:52.00\00:32:55.60 BUT HERE HE IS SAYING THERE WILL BE THOSE PEOPLE AND THEN THERE 00:32:55.60\00:32:59.81 WILL BE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN. 00:32:59.81\00:33:02.91 THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REAIN AT THE COMING OF THE LORD, 00:33:02.91\00:33:07.85 AREN'T GOING TO GO INTO CHRIS'S PRESENCE. 00:33:07.85\00:33:12.55 FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A 00:33:12.55\00:33:17.49 SHOUT. WITH VOICE OF AN ARC ANGEL. 00:33:17.49\00:33:20.96 DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A SECRET RAPTURE IN 00:33:20.96\00:33:23.20 >> NO. >> THE LIGHTEN WILL GO AS FAR AS 00:33:23.20\00:33:26.10 FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HIM. 00:33:26.10\00:33:31.21 EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM. THERE'S EARTHQUAKES. 00:33:31.21\00:33:34.41 IT'S LOUD WITH A SHOUT OF AN ARC ANGEL, WHEN WE ARE ALIVE AND 00:33:34.41\00:33:48.82 REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND 00:33:48.82\00:33:54.00 THUS, WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD. 00:33:54.00\00:33:56.30 SO I -- WHEN I GIGGLED ABOUT THE QUESTION, IT IS BECAUSE I WAS 00:33:56.30\00:34:01.17 TAUGHT, AND MANY YEARS BELIEVED IN A SECET RAPTURE AND THIS IS 00:34:01.17\00:34:06.14 THE SCRIPTURE THAT JUST -- I COULD NOT -- 00:34:06.14\00:34:10.68 >> OPENED YOUR EYES. >> YES. 00:34:10.68\00:34:13.45 THIS IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT OPENED UP MY MIND. 00:34:13.45\00:34:15.65 >> AND IF WE BACKED UP A COUPLE OF VERSES, SHELLEY, I LIKE TO 00:34:15.65\00:34:20.19 START WITH VERSE 13. PAUL SAYS I WANT YOU TO KNOW 00:34:20.19\00:34:23.29 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. HE SAYS I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO 00:34:23.29\00:34:26.63 BE IGNORANT, BUT I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT BRETHREN, 00:34:26.63\00:34:32.60 CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP, LEST THOSE WHO HAVE 00:34:32.60\00:34:40.44 FALLEN ASLEEP. NOT THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON TO 00:34:40.44\00:34:43.81 HEAVEN. AND SOMETHING THAT DEBUNKS THAT 00:34:43.81\00:34:46.68 WHOLE THING, PASTOR JOHN IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 00:34:46.68\00:34:49.22 IF YOU DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN, WHY DOES JESUS NEED TO COME 00:34:49.22\00:34:53.52 BACK? >> HE DOESN'T. 00:34:53.52\00:34:54.59 >> HE DOESN'T NEED TO COME BACK. WHEN HE COMES BACK HE IS COMING 00:34:54.59\00:35:03.30 BACK FOR THOSE WHO ARE SAVED, AND TAKE BACK THOSE ALIVE AND 00:35:03.30\00:35:07.07 LIVING FOR HIM. AND EVERYBODY BELIEVES IN THE 00:35:07.07\00:35:09.57 SECOND COMING, BUT WHY IF YOU ARE ALREADY THERE? 00:35:09.57\00:35:12.34 AND IF THOSE WHO ARE LIVING DIE GO THERE, WHY DOES HE NEED TO 00:35:12.34\00:35:16.54 COME BACK? >> HERE IS THE MOST POPULAR ONE 00:35:16.54\00:35:21.38 I BELIEVE. LET NOT YI HEART BE TROUBLED IN 00:35:21.38\00:35:25.82 MANY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE IN MANSIONS. 00:35:25.82\00:35:28.36 NOW GET THIS, I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 00:35:28.36\00:35:31.76 WHAT IS HE DOING? PREPARING A PLACE. 00:35:31.76\00:35:35.06 IF I GO, AND IF I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME 00:35:35.06\00:35:39.67 AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU. HE DIDN'T SAY COME JOIN ME 00:35:39.67\00:35:44.11 THERE. I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE 00:35:44.11\00:35:46.88 YOU TO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO. 00:35:46.88\00:35:52.98 NOW THAT'S JOHN 14:1-3. AND IN JOHN 13 HE SAID THIS 00:35:52.98\00:35:58.25 TWICE -- WHY DID HE SAY I'M COMING AGAIN TO RECEIVE YOU? 00:35:58.25\00:36:05.23 BUT WHAT DID HE SAY IN JOHN 13, WHERE I AM GOING, YOU CANNOT 00:36:05.23\00:36:10.27 COME. >> OKAY. 00:36:10.27\00:36:10.90 >> AND THEN HE SAYS? VERSE 36 OF JOHN 13, WHERE I AM 00:36:10.90\00:36:15.54 GOING, YOU CANNOT FOLLOW ME. YOU CAN'T FOLLOW ME. 00:36:15.54\00:36:19.27 WELL, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THERE? 00:36:19.27\00:36:21.84 I WILL COME AGAIN TO RECEIVE YOU. 00:36:21.84\00:36:27.25 [ INAUDIBLE ] 50, OUR GOD SHALL COME AND SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT. 00:36:27.25\00:36:33.15 A FIRE SHALL DEVOUR FOR HIM. SO IT IS NOT GOING TO BE SILENT. 00:36:33.15\00:36:40.66 THERE'S NO SECRET RAPTURE THAT WAS A THEORY ESPOUSED BY THE 00:36:40.66\00:36:48.07 CHURCH. AND "NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC" DID A 00:36:48.07\00:36:50.67 DOCUMENTARY ON THE SECRET RAPTURE, AND THEY SAID MILLIONS 00:36:50.67\00:36:53.91 OF CHRISTIANS HAVE EMBRACED A BELIEF THAT HAS NO BY 00:36:53.91\00:37:02.65 -- BIBLICAL SUPPORT. >> THAT MEANS IF YOU 00:37:02.65\00:37:06.05 FOLLOW -- YOU DIE, THAT MEANS YOU ARE NOT GOING WITH HIM. 00:37:06.05\00:37:09.69 HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO COME BACK TO GET YOU. 00:37:09.69\00:37:16.26 BECAUSE THIS CORRUPTION MUST END, AND THEN CAN WE GO. 00:37:16.26\00:37:20.74 BECAUSE PEOPLE ALSO WITH THAT RAPTURE, A LOT OF FOLK BELIEVE 00:37:20.74\00:37:24.47 WHEN YOU DIE YOU GO IMMEDIATELY TO HEAVEN OR HELL SO THAT 00:37:24.47\00:37:30.15 SCRIPTURE IS VERY SOLID WITH THAT. 00:37:30.15\00:37:31.95 >> AND TH ONE THEY USE THE MOST, PROBABLY -- ONE OF THE 00:37:31.95\00:37:36.12 MOST IS THAT HE COMES AS A THIEF IN TH NIGHT. 00:37:36.12\00:37:39.15 HE IS GOING TO SLIP IN, AND SLIP BACK OUT, BUT IF WE UNDERSTAND 00:37:39.15\00:37:43.46 THE CONTEXT OF THAT, IF WE READ THE RET OF THAT VERSE IT SAYS 00:37:43.46\00:37:48.73 AND THE EARTH SHALL BE DESTROYED WITH A GREAT NOISE. 00:37:48.73\00:37:51.67 AND ALL OF THAT IS IN THE SAME VERSE. 00:37:51.67\00:37:54.17 >> THAT SIMPLY MEANS HE IS NOT GOING TO SEN YOU A NOTICE. 00:37:54.17\00:37:57.27 >> YEAH, AND THERE HE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW HE COMES AS A THIEF. 00:37:57.27\00:38:01.78 PEOPLE AREN'T AWARE, THE ARE NOT EXPECTING HIM, THEY ARE NOT 00:38:01.78\00:38:05.75 LOOKING FOR HIM. THAT'S THE WAY A THIEF BREAKS 00:38:05.75\00:38:09.75 IN. >> BUT THE RAPTURE SCRIPTURE A 00:38:09.75\00:38:12.85 LOT OF FOLK USE TWO PEOPLE AT THE MILL, ONE WILL BE GRIENING, 00:38:12.85\00:38:17.86 ONE TAKEN AWAY, TWO MEN -- AND THE BAD ONE WILL BE TAKEN. 00:38:17.86\00:38:24.47 I GOT IN TROUBLE A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN I SAID, WELL, NEITHER 00:38:24.47\00:38:29.97 ONE IS GOING. AND I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR IT. 00:38:29.97\00:38:32.67 >> AND YOU JUST SAID IT AGAIN. >> YEAH. 00:38:32.67\00:38:34.91 I JUST SAID IT AGAIN. BUT I THINK THOSE ARE SCRIPTURES 00:38:34.91\00:38:38.01 THAT PEOPLE HEAR THAT -- >> UH-HUH. 00:38:38.01\00:38:42.12 AND THAT ONE IS SO EASY TO ELABORATE ON. 00:38:42.12\00:38:44.89 IT DOESN'T SAY THE ONE THAT IS LEFT IS LEFT ALIVE TO GO ON 00:38:44.89\00:38:50.16 LIVING. IT SAYS THAT ARE NOT SAVED ARE -DESTROYED BY THE 00:38:50.16\00:38:56.40 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. HE DIDN'T GO ON LIVING FOR 00:38:56.40\00:38:58.93 ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS. IT WAS OVER. 00:38:58.93\00:39:01.97 >> ALL RIGHT. >> YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF AN 00:39:01.97\00:39:06.21 IMMORTAL SOUL WAS BROUGHT IN AND INTRODUCED ABOUT 197 AD, AND 00:39:06.21\00:39:13.95 THIS WAS BROUGHT IN BY A PAGAN PHILOSOPHER WHO CONVERTED TO 00:39:13.95\00:39:20.99 CHRISTIANITY, AND HE WAS A FOLLOWER OF PLATO AND SOCRATES. 00:39:20.99\00:39:26.53 AND THIS IS WHERE -- WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SO MANY 00:39:26.53\00:39:30.93 MYTHS IN THE CHURCH THAT ARE BEING TAUGHT AS DOCTRINE, BUT I 00:39:30.93\00:39:39.71 WANTED TO READ 1 KRIN THREEIANS 15. 00:39:39.71\00:39:42.98 PAUL IS SAYING, BEHOLD, I TELL YOU A MYSTERY, WE SHALL NOT ALL 00:39:42.98\00:39:49.05 SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, SO SLEEP HE IS 00:39:49.05\00:39:53.72 REFERRING TO DEATH. IT SAYS IN A MOMENT, IN THE 00:39:53.72\00:39:57.56 TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET THAT'S WHEN WE ARE GOING 00:39:57.56\00:40:01.83 TO BE CHANGED. FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, WHEN 00:40:01.83\00:40:06.94 THE TRUMPET SOUNDS THIS IS WHEN JESUS CHRIST IS RETURNING, AND 00:40:06.94\00:40:11.87 THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE 00:40:11.87\00:40:16.51 CHANGED, FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND 00:40:16.51\00:40:20.42 THIS -- MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY. 00:40:20.42\00:40:30.83 GOD ALONE IS IMMORTAL. SO WE PUT ON IMMORTALITY AT THEN 00:40:30.83\00:40:35.63 OF THE TIME, AND IT SAYS WHEN THIS CORRUPTION HAS PUT ON 00:40:35.63\00:40:42.27 INCORRUPTION, AND WHEN THIS MORTAL PUTS ON IMMORTALITY, THEN 00:40:42.27\00:40:51.25 DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. 00:40:51.25\00:40:54.02 SO IT IS ALL PART AND PARCEL, I BELIEVE. 00:40:54.02\00:40:58.39 I WAS TAUGHT, YOU DIE, YOU GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN. 00:40:58.39\00:41:01.66 I WAS TAUGHT -- I BELIEVED IN THIS SECRET RAPTURE. 00:41:01.66\00:41:08.33 AND PEOPLE WOULD SAY ARE YOU PREMILLENNIALIST OR POST 00:41:08.33\00:41:17.37 MILLENNIALIST? AND I THOUGHT WHO CARES. 00:41:17.37\00:41:20.81 AND NONE OF IT -- NONE OF IT CAN BE SUPPORTED BY THE BIBLE. 00:41:20.81\00:41:26.18 >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 00:41:26.18\00:41:27.65 LET'S SEE. WE HAVE GOT -- JUST ONLY HAVE 00:41:27.65\00:41:30.39 ABOUT 15 MINUTES LEFT. >> I'M TEMPTED TO KEEP 00:41:30.39\00:41:33.59 ANSWERING, BUT I'M GOING TO STOP. 00:41:33.59\00:41:35.29 >> ALL RIGHT. HOW CAN I KNOW IF I HAVE 00:41:35.29\00:41:38.46 COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OR GRIEVED AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:41:38.46\00:41:43.47 >> IF YOU ARE ASKING THAT QUESTION, YOU HAVEN'T. 00:41:43.47\00:41:46.53 >> RIGHT. >> THE LORD IS SPEAKING TO THAT 00:41:46.53\00:41:48.64 INDIVIDUAL RIGHT NOW. IF YOU ARE EVEN CONCERNED ABOUT 00:41:48.64\00:41:52.74 WHETHER OR NOT YOU COMMITTED THE IMPARDONABLE SIN, YOU HAVEN'T. 00:41:52.74\00:41:57.28 THE IMPARDONABLE SIN IS JUST PERSISTENTLY REFUSING TO HAVE 00:41:57.28\00:42:02.92 THE SPIRIT -- CONTINUALLY REJECTING THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN 00:42:02.92\00:42:07.19 YOUR LIFE. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE BY 00:42:07.19\00:42:10.46 WHICH WE ARE SEALED. WHEN YOU SHUT YOUR VOICE OFF TO 00:42:10.46\00:42:14.73 THE ONLY ONE, AND AS THE BIBLE SAYS TO OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE 00:42:14.73\00:42:20.20 INVITATION OF CHRIST IN YOUR LIFE, WHEN YOU SHUT THAT VOICE 00:42:20.20\00:42:23.34 OFF, YOU NO LONGER HERE CHRIST SAYING COME TO BE FORGIVEN, COME 00:42:23.34\00:42:30.41 TO BE SAVED. SO IT IS NOT A SIN OF A PHYSICAL 00:42:30.41\00:42:34.78 NATURE. AMAZINGLY THOUGH, THE BIBLE SAYS 00:42:34.78\00:42:38.55 IF YOU SIN AGAINST CHRIST IT WILL BE FORGIVEN. 00:42:38.55\00:42:42.72 WHAT IS THE SIN? IT'S PERSISTENT REFUSAL. 00:42:42.72\00:42:46.83 THAT'S WHY REVELATION SEVEN TIMES SAYS IF ANYONE HAS AN EAR 00:42:46.83\00:42:55.24 LET THEM HEAR WHAT THIS SPIRIT SAYS FROM THE CHURCH. 00:42:55.24\00:43:03.38 >> ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IN THE BIBLE IS ABOUT KING 00:43:03.38\00:43:11.69 HEZEKIAH, AND HE WHALED AND PLEADED WITH THE LORD, AND THE 00:43:11.69\00:43:18.83 LORD GAVE HIM ANOTHER 15 YEARS. AND THEN MANASA IS A HORRIBLE, 00:43:18.83\00:43:27.50 HORRIBLE KING, AND THE BLOOD WAS RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS OF 00:43:27.50\00:43:32.04 JERUSALEM WHEN HE ACTUALLY PASSED HIS OWN CHILDREN THROUGH 00:43:32.04\00:43:35.98 THE FIRE. HE DID CHILD SACRIFICES. 00:43:35.98\00:43:40.42 HE WAS HORRIBLE. HE TURNED ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN 00:43:40.42\00:43:45.35 THE KINGDOM AWAY FROM GOD. AND THIS WAS THE MOST WICKED 00:43:45.35\00:43:51.43 MAN, AND GOD LET HIM BE CAPTURED. 00:43:51.43\00:43:54.23 THEY TOOK HIM OFF WITH A HOOK IN HIS NOSE. 00:43:54.23\00:43:56.67 AND IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU GET TO THAT PART. 00:43:56.67\00:43:59.50 IT'S LIKE, YAY! GOD GOT HIM. 00:43:59.50\00:44:03.00 YOU KNOW? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:44:03.00\00:44:03.77 >> YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS? WELL, HE IS IN CAPTIVITY. 00:44:03.77\00:44:08.28 THIS WICKED MAN WHO COMMITTED INIQUITY FOR TWO MANY YEARS. 00:44:08.28\00:44:14.15 WHILE HE IS IN CAPTIVITY, HE COMES TO HIMSELF AND ASKS GOD 00:44:14.15\00:44:18.59 FOR FORGIVENESS, AND NOT ONLY DOES GOD FORGIVE HIM, GOD 00:44:18.59\00:44:24.16 DELIVERS HIM, RESTORES THE KINGDOM TO HIM, AND THEN 00:44:24.16\00:44:27.60 HERE -- HERE IS THE SAD PART, THOUGH. 00:44:27.60\00:44:32.80 MANASA WAS NOW A GOD-FEARING MAN, AND HE TRIES TO -- HE TRIES 00:44:32.80\00:44:38.14 TO BREAK DOWN THE ALTERS. HE TRIES TO TURN THE TIDES OF 00:44:38.14\00:44:42.51 WHAT HE HAD CREATED, AND HE JUST NEVER COULD. 00:44:42.51\00:44:46.28 AND THEN MANASA DIED AND SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS IS WHAT THE 00:44:46.28\00:44:51.92 BIBLE SAYS. SO HE -- HE HIMSELF -- HE WAS 00:44:51.92\00:44:55.82 SAVED BY GRACE, BUT HE -- WHAT HE PUT INTO ACTION, HE COULDN'T 00:44:55.82\00:45:01.10 STOP. >> OKAY. 00:45:01.10\00:45:01.73 WE MAY HAVE TIME FOR JUST ONE MORE. 00:45:01.73\00:45:04.20 IT MAY TAKE A LITTLE BIT. WE'LL DO IT AS QUICKLY AS WE 00:45:04.20\00:45:08.87 CAN. THIS ONE, DOES MAN HAVE A SOUL, 00:45:08.87\00:45:11.71 PLEASE EXPLAIN, BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. 00:45:11.71\00:45:16.68 HOW DOES THAT WORK? >> VERY SIMPLE. 00:45:16.68\00:45:20.92 >> GO AHEAD. >> GENESIS 2:7, THE LORD GOD 00:45:20.92\00:45:25.89 FORMED MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND. 00:45:25.89\00:45:28.99 BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND MAN BECAME A 00:45:28.99\00:45:34.23 LIVING SOUL. >> SO DOES MAN HAVE A SOUL OR HE 00:45:34.23\00:45:37.63 IS A SOUL. >> HE IS A SOUL. 00:45:37.63\00:45:39.60 >> HE IS A SOUL. >> THE COMBINATION OF BODY PLUS 00:45:39.60\00:45:43.24 THE LIFE-GIVING BREATH OF JESUS MAKES US A LIVING SOUL. 00:45:43.24\00:45:48.28 JOB 27:3 MAKES THAT VERY CLEAR. BECAUSE THE LORD DIDN'T PUT A 00:45:48.28\00:45:53.31 SOUL INTO MAN. HE CREATED MAN TO BE A LIVING 00:45:53.31\00:45:56.89 SOUL. SO THERE'S NOTHING INSIDE OF ME 00:45:56.89\00:45:59.32 THAT'S JUST HANGING OUT THERE. WAITING FOR ME TO DIE AND GO 00:45:59.32\00:46:05.36 SOMEPLACE ELSE.-EZEKIEL 18:4, THE SOUL THAT IS IN US THAT 00:46:05.36\00:46:12.70 SHALL DIE. SO THERE'S NO IMMORTAL SOUL. GO AHEAD, SHELLEY, ADD TO THAT. 00:46:12.70\00:46:18.14 >> YEAH, AND IT'S MORE LIKE A FIGURE OF SPEECH. 00:46:18.14\00:46:22.11 IN FIRST THESSALONIANS 5:23, BEAUTIFUL SKRIMTURE, SAYS, NOW 00:46:22.11\00:46:29.02 MAY THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTITIFY YOU COMPLETELY, AND 00:46:29.02\00:46:34.89 MAY YOUR WHOLE, SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY, THAT IS ALL OF MAN, THAT 00:46:34.89\00:46:40.56 IS INDIVISIBLE. IN THAT IS ALL OF MAN, BUT IT'S 00:46:40.56\00:46:47.74 INDEVISIBLE. YOU CAN'T HAVE A SOL WITHOUT 00:46:47.74\00:46:49.40 THE BODY, YOU CAN'T HAVE A SPIRIT WITHOUT THE BODY. 00:46:49.40\00:46:54.58 MAY GOD SANCTITIFY YOU COMPLETELY. 00:46:54.58\00:47:00.55 SO IT'S MORE OF A -- A FIGURE OF SPEECH TO TALK ABOUT 00:47:00.55\00:47:07.82 COMPLETENESS. >> OKAY. 00:47:07.82\00:47:10.76 RONNY? >> I WAS THINKING ABOUT YOU CAN 00:47:10.76\00:47:14.66 YOUR CARPENTRY BACKGROUND. A TRUCK CAME OUT AND HE BRINGS A 00:47:14.66\00:47:19.87 BIG PILE OF LUMBER. WE TAKE THE LUMBER AND THE NAILS 00:47:19.87\00:47:24.81 AND THE HAMMER AND THE SAW, AND WE DRIVE A HOUSE. 00:47:24.81\00:47:29.18 BUT WE CAN TAKE THE CROWBAR AND START PULLING THE BOARDS BACK 00:47:29.18\00:47:35.02 OFF, WELL, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE? 00:47:35.02\00:47:38.42 IT'S BACK TO THE ELEMENTS WE STARTED WITH. 00:47:38.42\00:47:40.72 SAME THING AS THE BODY, YOU KNOW, THE BREATH OF LIFE AND THE 00:47:40.72\00:47:45.23 BODY BECAME A LIVING SOUL. BUT YOU SEPARATE THEM, AND THEN 00:47:45.23\00:47:48.20 THE SOUL IS GONE. >> AND WE CAN USE -- PART OF 00:47:48.20\00:47:52.57 THEIR LAST QUESTION WAS ABOUT HELL. 00:47:52.57\00:47:55.24 DOES IT BURN FOREVER. AND YOU COULD USE THAT SAME 00:47:55.24\00:47:58.94 ILLUSTRATION THAT YOUR HOUSE CATCHES ON FIRE, IT BURNS DOWN. 00:47:58.94\00:48:09.08 BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER. IT IS GONE. 00:48:09.08\00:48:12.75 IT BURNS UP OR DOWN, AS YOU SAY, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT. 00:48:12.75\00:48:18.43 BUT THAT'S A GRET ILLUSTRATION. NAILS AND LUMBER MAKE A HOUSE, 00:48:18.43\00:48:22.86 BUT WHEN YOU TAKE THE NAILS AND LUMBER, YOU JUST HAVE NAILS AND 00:48:22.86\00:48:26.90 LUMBER AND YOU DON'T HAVE A HOUSE ANYMORE. 00:48:26.90\00:48:29.90 >> ROMANS 6:23. I USE THAT SCRIPTURE -- I KNOW 00:48:29.90\00:48:36.31 MALACHI IS ANOTHER ONE. MALACHI CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 3. 00:48:36.31\00:48:43.18 >> I'LL GIVE NOTICE TO OUR CREW, IF WE HAVE A CHANCE, IT MIGHT BE 00:48:43.18\00:48:48.82 GOOD TO END ON THIS GREAT SONG, "PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME," AND 00:48:48.82\00:48:56.20 WE'LL DO THAT AFTER THIS. BUT GO AHEAD. 00:48:56.20\00:48:59.10 >> I WAS TALKING ABOUT IT, AND THEN YOU MENTIONED THE 00:48:59.10\00:49:03.30 SONG -- IT JUST LEFT ME. >> IN THE GREEK, EVER LASTING, 00:49:03.30\00:49:07.41 OR ETERNAL IS AONUS, AND IT IS -- IT IS A RELATIVE TERM, IT 00:49:07.41\00:49:15.35 IS TERMED BY THE OBJECT IT IS MODIFYING. 00:49:15.35\00:49:18.59 SO IF IT IS TALKING ABOUT ETERNAL FIRE OF LIKE SODAM AND 00:49:18.59\00:49:26.23 GOMORRAH, IT SAYS IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF ETERNAL FIRE, WELL, 00:49:26.23\00:49:31.03 BECAUSE IT WAS TALKING ABOUT AN OBJECT THAT IS MORE TALL OR 00:49:31.03\00:49:37.34 PERISHABLE. SODDAM AND GOMORRAH -- THOSE 00:49:37.34\00:49:40.74 CITIES AREN'T STILL ON FIRE. SO WHE YOU USE AOWN US TO 00:49:40.74\00:49:46.01 DESCRIBE A MAN OR A CITY, THEN THAT MEANS THE FIRE LASTS -- IT 00:49:46.01\00:49:50.45 HAS ETERNAL RESULTS. IT LASTS AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO 00:49:50.45\00:49:55.92 DESTROY, FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION. IF YOU USE AONUS IN REFERENCE TO 00:49:55.92\00:50:02.93 GOD, THAT MEANS WITHOUT END. SO IF YOU SAY ETERNAL OR EVER 00:50:02.93\00:50:07.84 LASTING LIFE. >> THAT'S ANOTHER SUBJECT. 00:50:07.84\00:50:11.01 WE'LL WANT TO DO MORE OF THESE BIBLE STUDIES. 00:50:11.01\00:50:16.21 SO WHY DON'T WE RIGHT NOW, AND IN CLOSING, WE'LL MAYBE HAVE A 00:50:16.21\00:50:20.15 MINUTE OR SO LEFT, BUT WE WANT TO GO TO YVONNE SINGING "PRAISE 00:50:20.15\00:50:28.22 HIS HOLY NAME." ¤ 00:50:28.22\00:50:32.69 ¤ PRAISE THE LORD ¤ ¤ FROM WHOM ALL THINGS FLOW ¤ 00:51:29.82\00:51:43.23 ¤ FOR HE HAS WASHED AND MADE ME WHAT I KNOW ¤ 00:51:43.23\00:51:56.38 ¤ I'M REDEEMED ¤ ¤ OF MY SIN AND SHAME ¤ 00:51:56.38\00:52:11.89 ¤ FOR NOW AND FOREVER ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:52:11.89\00:52:23.30 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:52:23.30\00:52:36.72 ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY NOW AND FOREVER ¤ 00:52:36.72\00:52:44.53 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:52:44.53\00:52:54.07 ¤ ¤ GOD IS GREAT ¤ 00:53:11.75\00:53:31.97 ¤ 00:53:31.97\00:53:44.55 ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:53:49.22\00:54:11.11 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ 00:54:11.11\00:54:21.49 ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY NOW AND FOREVER ¤ 00:54:21.49\00:54:29.56 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:54:29.56\00:54:45.01 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY ¤ 00:54:45.01\00:54:52.95 ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY ¤ ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY ¤ 00:54:52.95\00:54:58.86 ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY ¤ ¤ TO GOD BE TH GLORY ¤ 00:54:58.86\00:55:07.70 ¤ NOW AND FOREVER ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ 00:55:07.70\00:55:23.85 ¤ HIS HOLY ¤ ¤ NAME ¤ 00:55:23.85\00:55:30.46 ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS HOLY ¤ 00:55:30.46\00:55:37.47 ¤ PRAISE HIS NAME ¤ ¤ PRAISE HIS NAME ¤ 00:55:37.47\00:55:50.58 ¤ TO GOD BE THE GLORY ¤ ¤ NOW AND FOREVER ¤ 00:55:50.58\00:55:58.95 ¤ PRAISE ¤ ¤ HIS ¤ 00:55:58.95\00:56:06.83 ¤ HOLY NAME ¤ 00:56:06.83\00:56:13.13 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> ALLELUIA! 00:56:16.71\00:56:17.64 >> AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. 00:56:20.08\00:56:21.61 >> AMEN. >> THANK YOU YVONNE. 00:56:21.61\00:56:24.55 JUST BEAUTIFUL. WHAT A WONDERFUL TALENT. 00:56:24.55\00:56:29.32 AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE. 00:56:29.32\00:56:31.52 AND WE DID TO DO THIS MORE OFTEN. 00:56:31.52\00:56:34.92 DO MORE OF THE LIVE BIBLE STUDY AND LET YOU ALL DICTATE WHAT OUR 00:56:34.92\00:56:39.73 CONVERSATIONS ARE. I WANT TO THANK YOU AIL -- ALL 00:56:39.73\00:56:45.43 FOR BEING HERE, AND WHAT YOU DO FOR THE CAUSE OF GOD ON EARTH. 00:56:45.43\00:56:50.51 AND FOR THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, I KNOW GOD HAS CALLED YOU FOR 00:56:50.51\00:56:55.58 SOMETHING BIG. OUR TIME IS ALL GONE FOR 00:56:55.58\00:56:58.75 TONIGHT, BUT UNTIL WE SEE YOU THE NEXT TIME, MAY THE LORD 00:56:58.75\00:57:06.09 RICHLY BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY MORE THAN YOU COULD ASK. 00:57:06.09\00:57:09.42 >> AMEN. ¤ 00:57:09.42\00:57:13.29