WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.900 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:01.620 --> 00:01.860 Amen. 00:02.700 --> 00:04.360 Here in Ephesians chapter three, 00:04.540 --> 00:06.680 we have a lot of large sentences again. 00:08.020 --> 00:10.280 And I'm gonna try and count these correctly. 00:10.640 --> 00:14.560 I think I had miscounted in chapter one, 00:14.900 --> 00:21.560 but there's approximately five sentences here 00:21.560 --> 00:24.120 from the verses unless you count the last amen 00:24.120 --> 00:25.920 as a separate sentence as well. 00:27.260 --> 00:31.260 But this first several verses is kind of like one thought. 00:31.940 --> 00:33.580 And my goal is to try and kind of go through 00:33.580 --> 00:35.020 the sentences a little bit 00:35.020 --> 00:36.660 and just try to get the big picture 00:36.660 --> 00:39.600 and then kind of talk about this chapter for a moment. 00:39.760 --> 00:42.420 But I believe these first seven verses here 00:42.420 --> 00:43.860 kind of form this first sentence. 00:44.080 --> 00:45.380 It says here for this cause, 00:45.600 --> 00:48.680 I, Paul, the prison of Jesus Christ for your Gentiles, 00:49.260 --> 00:51.580 if you have heard of the dispensation 00:51.580 --> 00:53.900 of the grace of God which has given me to you, word, 00:54.300 --> 00:56.760 how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery 00:57.300 --> 00:59.780 as I wrote a four and a few words whereby 01:00.340 --> 01:02.080 when you read you may understand my knowledge 01:02.080 --> 01:02.820 and the mystery of Christ, 01:03.380 --> 01:06.180 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men 01:06.660 --> 01:09.920 as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles 01:09.920 --> 01:11.080 and prophets by the spirit 01:11.080 --> 01:14.340 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs 01:14.340 --> 01:16.420 and of the same body and partakers of his promise 01:16.420 --> 01:17.760 in Christ by the gospel. 01:18.380 --> 01:20.200 Whereof I was made a minister 01:20.800 --> 01:22.680 according to the gift of the grace of God 01:22.680 --> 01:24.640 not given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 01:24.760 --> 01:25.540 So it's a long sentence, 01:25.900 --> 01:28.900 has a parenthetical statement in the midst, 01:29.060 --> 01:32.060 but what is the essence of verses one through seven? 01:32.220 --> 01:34.160 Well, Paul is saying he was made a minister 01:34.960 --> 01:37.220 by which the Gentiles would get saved. 01:37.300 --> 01:38.580 And this is kind of the culmination 01:38.580 --> 01:41.140 of what we've been working through 01:41.140 --> 01:42.140 in the book of Ephesians 01:42.140 --> 01:44.400 that what he's really been getting at 01:44.400 --> 01:46.320 with the predestination language 01:46.320 --> 01:48.220 and the fact that they've been elected 01:48.220 --> 01:49.460 and all this different stuff 01:49.460 --> 01:50.880 is to try and get to this point 01:50.880 --> 01:52.560 being emphasized in chapter three 01:53.040 --> 01:56.900 that the Gentiles are gonna be grafted in, 01:57.080 --> 01:59.320 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, 01:59.420 --> 02:01.320 that the Gentiles are also gonna inherit, 02:01.800 --> 02:03.440 that the Gentiles are adopted in, 02:03.800 --> 02:04.760 they're not plan B, 02:05.260 --> 02:06.380 it was plan A, 02:06.780 --> 02:07.920 it was always the plan, 02:08.020 --> 02:09.080 it was always the idea, 02:09.540 --> 02:13.800 but obviously this plan of getting Gentiles saved 02:13.800 --> 02:15.740 had to have a practical solution 02:16.100 --> 02:18.580 and the practical solution was the apostle Paul. 02:18.580 --> 02:20.800 The apostle Paul was the minister, 02:20.880 --> 02:23.540 was the person to essentially go out 02:23.940 --> 02:26.220 and really start this major work 02:26.220 --> 02:27.940 of getting Gentiles saved. 02:28.100 --> 02:29.640 So he's saying Paul, I was the minister 02:30.240 --> 02:32.080 by which the Gentiles would get saved. 02:32.180 --> 02:34.320 That's what he's trying to say here in verse number seven. 02:34.760 --> 02:37.180 I was made a minister according to the gift of grace of God 02:37.180 --> 02:39.740 given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 02:39.920 --> 02:41.840 So this was a mystery 02:42.700 --> 02:44.300 as the Bible says in verse three. 02:44.520 --> 02:46.720 He says, how that by revelation 02:46.720 --> 02:48.520 he made known unto me the mystery, 02:49.240 --> 02:50.660 what is the mystery? 02:51.100 --> 02:52.040 Well in verse five, 02:52.260 --> 02:54.060 which in other ages was not made known 02:54.060 --> 02:55.580 unto the sons of men 02:56.080 --> 02:58.880 as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles 02:58.880 --> 02:59.840 and prophets by the spirit, 03:00.280 --> 03:01.220 that what's the mystery? 03:01.620 --> 03:03.660 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs 03:03.660 --> 03:04.560 and of the same body. 03:04.960 --> 03:08.280 So the mystery that's often referred to 03:08.280 --> 03:09.400 in the New Testament 03:09.960 --> 03:11.320 is that the Gentiles 03:11.820 --> 03:13.600 are gonna be a part of the body of Christ 03:14.200 --> 03:16.540 and that they are gonna be grafted in, 03:16.740 --> 03:18.060 that they are the fellow heirs, 03:18.180 --> 03:19.160 that they're now the citizens 03:19.160 --> 03:22.320 of this new spiritual nation of Israel. 03:22.940 --> 03:25.780 And this was something that as described here 03:25.780 --> 03:26.760 in other ages, 03:27.620 --> 03:30.600 it says was not made known unto the sons of men 03:31.140 --> 03:32.640 as it is now revealed. 03:33.220 --> 03:36.440 I don't think it's saying that it was unknowable. 03:36.720 --> 03:38.800 I don't think it's saying that you couldn't see it. 03:39.080 --> 03:41.020 It's that it wasn't as clear. 03:41.400 --> 03:42.380 It wasn't as obvious. 03:42.380 --> 03:44.400 It wasn't revealed in the same way, 03:44.640 --> 03:45.700 in the same manner. 03:46.120 --> 03:47.380 It's not as manifest. 03:48.200 --> 03:50.480 The knowledge that us apostles have 03:50.480 --> 03:53.200 is unique to this particular event. 03:53.380 --> 03:55.700 And so there's a sense of it being revealed. 03:56.080 --> 03:58.040 Just like we have at the end of our New Testament, 03:58.220 --> 03:59.520 the book of Revelation. 04:00.280 --> 04:01.500 What is Revelation? 04:01.840 --> 04:04.180 Well, what's being revealed is the end times. 04:04.580 --> 04:06.200 But we have books like Daniel. 04:06.340 --> 04:07.840 We have other books of the Bible 04:07.840 --> 04:10.460 that can point to events of the end times 04:10.460 --> 04:12.140 and things that are gonna happen 04:12.140 --> 04:13.740 and the abomination of desolations 04:13.740 --> 04:15.020 mentioned in the gospels. 04:15.360 --> 04:18.480 But the book of Revelation really reveals unto us 04:18.480 --> 04:21.380 and really explains to us in great detail 04:21.900 --> 04:23.820 what's gonna happen in the end times. 04:24.260 --> 04:25.360 So in the same way, 04:25.680 --> 04:28.660 this is being revealed in a unique way 04:28.660 --> 04:30.200 to the apostles and to the prophets. 04:30.440 --> 04:33.280 And it's now something that's becoming manifest. 04:33.540 --> 04:35.700 We're seeing it come to play 04:35.700 --> 04:38.560 and it's not something that's really a mystery anymore 04:39.000 --> 04:39.940 because it's happening. 04:40.600 --> 04:42.120 You know, the mystery is an unsolved. 04:42.240 --> 04:43.180 We don't know what's gonna happen. 04:43.280 --> 04:44.140 We don't know how it's gonna work. 04:44.240 --> 04:45.780 We don't see how this is gonna happen. 04:46.300 --> 04:48.500 And then yet we now see how it happens. 04:48.880 --> 04:51.240 So there could be a couple ways that this is a mystery. 04:51.380 --> 04:52.840 It could be a mystery in the sense that 04:55.400 --> 04:56.880 Jews didn't think that Gentiles 04:56.880 --> 04:58.300 would ever be grafted in. 04:58.460 --> 04:59.980 So they're just taken off guard 04:59.980 --> 05:02.080 by the fact that, wow, I didn't realize 05:02.080 --> 05:03.260 you guys are gonna come in. 05:03.800 --> 05:05.380 Another way to look at this is that, 05:05.480 --> 05:07.320 hey, we knew that the Gentiles would come in, 05:07.800 --> 05:09.680 we just didn't know how it was gonna happen. 05:09.740 --> 05:11.080 It was kind of a mystery to us. 05:11.400 --> 05:14.340 How was God gonna cause this to come to pass? 05:14.540 --> 05:16.600 We don't really understand how this is possible 05:17.200 --> 05:21.040 or by which vehicle this could be something accomplished 05:21.660 --> 05:23.920 even though they may have realized it was gonna happen. 05:24.300 --> 05:26.820 What's being revealed is how it's going to happen. 05:26.900 --> 05:28.140 And again, what is that revealing? 05:28.360 --> 05:30.840 It's Paul literally going out there preaching the gospel 05:30.840 --> 05:33.400 and almost single-handedly in a sense, 05:33.600 --> 05:34.780 getting the gospel lots of people, 05:34.780 --> 05:37.420 them getting saved and them being grafted in and brought in. 05:38.040 --> 05:41.720 We notice that what is their place, 05:42.300 --> 05:45.160 their placement is fellow heirs in verse six. 05:45.720 --> 05:47.460 Their placement is the same body 05:47.900 --> 05:51.300 and that they are partakers of his promise. 05:51.940 --> 05:55.060 So Jesus Christ did not die on the cross 05:55.060 --> 05:58.200 only for the Jews but also for the Gentiles. 05:58.420 --> 06:00.440 And so they are also fellow heirs. 06:00.680 --> 06:02.540 We're also part of that same body of Christ 06:03.040 --> 06:05.820 and now we are partakers of those same promises 06:05.820 --> 06:06.600 given unto them. 06:07.160 --> 06:09.580 So again, Gentiles are not a second-rate citizen. 06:10.080 --> 06:13.260 They are on the same level as a Jew. 06:13.420 --> 06:16.140 So a Jew that gets saved or a Gentile gets saved. 06:16.500 --> 06:18.620 There's now no more Jew or Gentile 06:18.620 --> 06:21.020 for we're all one in Christ Jesus. 06:21.280 --> 06:22.740 So we're on the same level. 06:23.220 --> 06:24.700 We're on the same playing field 06:24.700 --> 06:26.840 and we have the same opportunities 06:26.840 --> 06:28.300 set before us in Christ. 06:28.720 --> 06:31.300 So we don't have like a Jewish church and Gentile church. 06:31.300 --> 06:35.680 That's why it's silly because today in 2026 America, 06:35.860 --> 06:38.420 there are churches that have services for Jews. 06:38.740 --> 06:40.900 They have like messianic services 06:41.400 --> 06:45.060 or they're trying to separate the Jews and the Gentiles 06:45.060 --> 06:47.900 where the whole point of the New Testament is like, 06:47.940 --> 06:49.760 no, we don't have this separation anymore. 06:50.300 --> 06:51.520 We're all coming together. 06:52.160 --> 06:55.620 And in Christ there's no longer Jew or Gentile. 06:55.920 --> 06:58.400 That doesn't mean that there is no longer Jew or Gentile. 06:59.220 --> 07:01.460 He's saying in the house of God, 07:01.840 --> 07:03.620 there's not this distinction that matters. 07:03.840 --> 07:05.360 The distinction of Jew and Gentile 07:05.360 --> 07:08.900 doesn't really play any role in the house of God in the church. 07:09.220 --> 07:11.020 Albeit there is still a distinction. 07:11.340 --> 07:14.540 There is still differences of persons here, 07:15.020 --> 07:18.620 different heritages, histories, background, strengths, 07:19.020 --> 07:20.020 weaknesses, locations. 07:20.660 --> 07:21.780 There's all kinds of different things 07:21.780 --> 07:23.600 that are physical realities. 07:23.820 --> 07:25.680 It's not like, oh, well now this happened, 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Jews and Gentiles, there's no distinction anymore. 07:28.590 --> 07:30.620 No, there's no distinction in the house of God, 07:31.080 --> 07:32.760 in the body of Christ and in the church. 07:33.200 --> 07:35.100 We don't elevate one over the other. 07:35.500 --> 07:37.920 We don't prefer one over the other. 07:38.240 --> 07:40.360 They should be given the same status, 07:40.680 --> 07:44.140 the same position in the house of God in that context. 07:44.820 --> 07:48.280 And so we wanna make sure that we understand the context. 07:48.500 --> 07:50.160 You know, there's neither male nor female 07:50.630 --> 07:52.280 in the sense that okay, 07:53.120 --> 07:57.000 hey, men and women are both part of the body of Christ 07:57.500 --> 07:59.560 and it's not like well the men are on this side of the church 07:59.560 --> 08:01.700 or the women are on this side or whatever, 08:01.820 --> 08:03.680 but that doesn't mean there isn't still differences 08:03.680 --> 08:04.500 between men and women. 08:05.440 --> 08:07.340 There's still a clear difference between men and women, 08:07.560 --> 08:08.760 just like there'd be clear differences 08:08.760 --> 08:09.920 between the Jew and the Gentile, 08:10.440 --> 08:12.920 but it doesn't mean that in the house of God, 08:13.180 --> 08:14.500 we create these distinctions 08:14.500 --> 08:19.980 or that there's lesser value or God views these categories 08:19.980 --> 08:21.880 as one's better than the other, 08:21.980 --> 08:23.140 preferred above the other. 08:23.520 --> 08:26.160 No, we have different roles and different responsibilities 08:26.760 --> 08:29.180 that are not based on genetics 08:29.180 --> 08:32.260 or not based on race or any of these kind of things. 08:32.480 --> 08:36.460 And so, you know, we have this being played out 08:36.460 --> 08:39.880 and why are we talking about this? 08:40.460 --> 08:42.740 You know, Ephesians chapters one, two and three 08:42.740 --> 08:46.220 are basically just getting us all the way to understand, 08:46.820 --> 08:48.360 hey, you guys were playing a, 08:49.180 --> 08:51.120 you know, God's broken down the middle wall 08:51.120 --> 08:53.800 partition between us in chapter two, chapter three, 08:53.800 --> 08:55.600 this was a mystery that's now been revealed 08:56.260 --> 08:57.560 and it's happened. 08:58.180 --> 08:59.560 And then chapters four, five and six 08:59.560 --> 09:02.320 are then gonna emphasize, since that's happened, 09:02.420 --> 09:04.460 because you are predestined to do this, 09:04.840 --> 09:07.760 because there's no more middle wall between us, 09:07.900 --> 09:10.680 because you are part of the same body of Christ, 09:11.080 --> 09:13.760 now you need to put on the arm of God, 09:13.980 --> 09:16.140 you need to walk and follow Christ, 09:16.380 --> 09:18.560 you need to basically do the things of Christ 09:18.560 --> 09:20.040 and be a part of the family. 09:20.560 --> 09:22.000 And so we're kind of building up 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 to that particular context. 09:24.160 --> 09:28.080 But I wanna illustrate of this mystery idea 09:28.500 --> 09:30.440 how this is constantly brought up in the Bible. 09:30.560 --> 09:32.860 Go to Romans chapter 11, if you would, 09:32.920 --> 09:33.980 go to Romans chapter 11. 09:34.840 --> 09:37.420 Now there are a few other times the Bible 09:37.420 --> 09:41.940 uses the word mystery that is not about this context. 09:42.640 --> 09:45.980 So there's kind of like three contexts 09:45.980 --> 09:48.680 that mystery is used that I can find in the Bible. 09:49.260 --> 09:51.220 One would be the mystery of the gospel itself. 09:51.920 --> 09:54.860 The second would be the mystery of essentially 09:54.860 --> 09:56.700 the Gentiles being grafted in. 09:57.060 --> 09:58.840 And then you kind of have a third category 09:58.840 --> 10:01.580 that would say it'd be like prophetic in times mysteries. 10:02.200 --> 10:03.960 And in those prophetic in times mysteries, 10:04.140 --> 10:05.660 you have things like the seven stars, 10:05.840 --> 10:06.640 the mystery of iniquity. 10:07.020 --> 10:09.000 You also have the mystery of God being revealed. 10:09.120 --> 10:09.900 So you kind of have some like 10:09.900 --> 10:11.300 in times prophetic mysteries. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.980 You have the mysteries associated with the gospel, 10:16.180 --> 10:17.920 which is just the fact that Jesus Christ 10:17.920 --> 10:20.760 was gonna die on the cross, be dead, 10:20.960 --> 10:22.040 rise again from the dead. 10:22.200 --> 10:23.480 And just basically that the gospel 10:23.480 --> 10:26.020 is paying for all of our sins, salvation 10:26.020 --> 10:28.180 has been accomplished through what Christ has done. 10:28.900 --> 10:31.740 And of course, in relation to that, 10:31.940 --> 10:33.640 close relation is that the Gentiles 10:33.640 --> 10:36.600 are gonna also be saved by that same faith in the gospel. 10:37.160 --> 10:39.980 But again, many times when it's bringing up mystery 10:40.580 --> 10:41.320 in the New Testament, 10:41.480 --> 10:43.840 it's specifically about the Gentiles being saved. 10:44.140 --> 10:46.020 Okay, and so that's what I wanna really focus on. 10:46.500 --> 10:48.760 I understand there's a few other times mystery is used, 10:49.180 --> 10:52.040 but it's consistently used in the New Testament 10:52.040 --> 10:53.200 about this concept. 10:53.360 --> 10:54.600 Romans 11 verse 25, 10:55.520 --> 10:57.420 for it not brethren that you should be ignorant 10:57.420 --> 10:58.480 of this mystery, 10:59.340 --> 11:01.640 lest you should be wise in your own conceits 11:01.640 --> 11:04.340 that blindness in part has happened to Israel. 11:04.840 --> 11:07.900 Notice this, until the fullness of the Gentiles 11:08.620 --> 11:09.300 become in. 11:09.700 --> 11:11.820 So he's saying, hey, there was this mystery, 11:12.580 --> 11:13.960 but what is the mystery? 11:13.960 --> 11:16.080 The mystery was that the Gentiles are coming in. 11:17.040 --> 11:19.400 So blindness has happened in part to Israel, 11:20.020 --> 11:20.640 so that what? 11:20.800 --> 11:22.980 So that the Gentiles can come in in a sense. 11:23.560 --> 11:25.420 And so obviously Romans chapter 11 11:25.420 --> 11:28.520 is making it clear that even though Christ came 11:28.520 --> 11:30.840 into his own, his own did not necessarily receive him. 11:30.940 --> 11:32.480 They're not all Israel, which are of Israel. 11:33.140 --> 11:35.460 And so as a result, 11:35.820 --> 11:39.000 instead of just staying with Israel, 11:39.620 --> 11:42.120 God basically just rejects the nation as a whole, 11:42.120 --> 11:44.260 counts them all in unbelief, 11:44.520 --> 11:45.400 so that then what? 11:45.620 --> 11:47.760 So that then the Gentiles can now be grafted in. 11:48.080 --> 11:51.260 And it is in part because it's not that literally 11:51.260 --> 11:52.820 every Israelite was rejected. 11:53.280 --> 11:54.940 No, the apostle Paul's not rejected, 11:55.480 --> 11:56.600 some of the other Jews are not rejected, 11:56.920 --> 11:59.040 but they're all counted in unbelief 11:59.040 --> 12:01.700 so that then Christ can then have mercy 12:01.700 --> 12:03.180 on the Gentiles and bring them in. 12:03.220 --> 12:04.060 Look what it says in verse 11. 12:04.620 --> 12:06.620 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? 12:06.760 --> 12:09.140 God forbid, but rather through their fall, 12:09.140 --> 12:11.680 salvation has come under the Gentiles 12:12.200 --> 12:14.940 for to provoke them to jealousy. 12:15.540 --> 12:18.460 So again, he counts them all in unbelief 12:18.460 --> 12:20.520 so that then the gospel can go to others 12:20.520 --> 12:24.360 to try and provoke them to come back into the fold 12:24.360 --> 12:26.640 and actually receive salvation 12:26.640 --> 12:28.580 and want to get saved 12:28.580 --> 12:31.220 because they see what God is doing for them. 12:31.860 --> 12:34.020 And so we kind of live in the time of the Gentiles 12:34.020 --> 12:35.900 in a sense, but I also believe 12:36.580 --> 12:39.740 that can be referencing an end times fulfillment as well. 12:39.880 --> 12:42.500 Go to Romans chapter 16, Romans chapter 16. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.600 So again, we have the mystery is that 12:46.280 --> 12:48.740 God has done with the physical nation of Israel 12:49.340 --> 12:50.220 so that what? 12:50.500 --> 12:51.780 So that Gentiles can come in 12:51.780 --> 12:52.980 and we have now a spiritual nation. 12:53.400 --> 12:55.720 And that was a mystery because they're thinking, 12:56.160 --> 12:58.420 even some of Christ's disciples are thinking 12:58.420 --> 12:59.880 that Christ is gonna come and restore 12:59.880 --> 13:00.900 the nation of Israel 13:00.900 --> 13:02.580 and that we're gonna have a rebirth 13:02.580 --> 13:03.700 of the nation of Israel 13:03.700 --> 13:06.540 and that Israel is gonna be at the top again 13:06.540 --> 13:07.940 like when David was in charge 13:07.940 --> 13:09.400 or when Solomon was in charge 13:09.900 --> 13:12.100 but that's not what Christ's goal was. 13:12.240 --> 13:13.800 Christ was not gonna come to restore 13:13.800 --> 13:15.280 a physical kingdom at that time 13:15.280 --> 13:17.100 but rather to die on the cross 13:17.640 --> 13:19.440 and to pay for all of our sins. 13:19.640 --> 13:21.900 And so there's the mystery of the gospel 13:22.400 --> 13:24.960 and then there's a mystery of the impact of that gospel 13:25.440 --> 13:27.040 that this is not the time 13:27.040 --> 13:29.400 when Christ is gonna rule and reign on the earth. 13:29.740 --> 13:31.380 That is when he returns. 13:31.680 --> 13:33.520 When he returns is when he's gonna rule and reign 13:33.520 --> 13:34.700 and set up that physical kingdom. 13:35.280 --> 13:37.040 But at the current moment, no, 13:37.180 --> 13:39.560 now we've entered into a spiritual kingdom 13:39.560 --> 13:42.060 where Gentiles are being brought in. 13:42.500 --> 13:45.080 Romans chapter 16 verse 25. 13:46.640 --> 13:49.440 Now to him that is of power to establish you 13:49.440 --> 13:50.400 according to my gospel 13:50.910 --> 13:52.360 and the preaching of Jesus Christ 13:52.360 --> 13:54.060 according to the revelation of the mystery 13:54.650 --> 13:56.560 which was kept secret since the world began 13:56.560 --> 13:57.980 but now is made manifest 13:58.550 --> 14:00.160 and by the scriptures of the prophets 14:00.160 --> 14:02.040 according to the commandment of the everlasting God 14:02.040 --> 14:06.640 may known to all nations for the obedience of faith. 14:07.180 --> 14:09.800 So notice again that he's talking about, 14:09.940 --> 14:11.340 hey, there was this mystery, 14:11.940 --> 14:13.120 there was a revelation of the mystery 14:13.120 --> 14:15.180 which kept secret since the world began 14:15.180 --> 14:18.640 but is now made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets 14:19.280 --> 14:21.240 according to the commandment of the everlasting God 14:21.240 --> 14:23.020 may known to all, notice this, 14:24.020 --> 14:25.780 nations for the obedience of the faith. 14:26.080 --> 14:28.880 So this also is kind of in similar fashion 14:29.400 --> 14:31.700 talking about, hey, this isn't just for you guys, 14:31.700 --> 14:32.860 this is for all nations. 14:33.300 --> 14:34.820 And again, this is written to the church at Rome 14:35.280 --> 14:37.320 saying, hey, the mystery was 14:37.320 --> 14:39.860 that all of you guys are getting brought in, 14:40.020 --> 14:41.560 that the Gentiles are being brought in, 14:41.780 --> 14:43.640 that this gospel is not just for Israel 14:43.640 --> 14:46.400 but it's also for the all nations, for the whole world 14:46.400 --> 14:48.540 when the promise was given to Abraham, 14:48.920 --> 14:51.180 it was not given just to Abraham and the Hebrews, 14:51.420 --> 14:54.040 it was given to all families of the earth 14:54.040 --> 14:56.900 that all the nations of the earth would be blessed 14:56.900 --> 14:58.920 through the preaching of the gospel 14:59.320 --> 15:01.660 and the preaching of the gospel saves all nations 15:01.660 --> 15:03.040 and every single person. 15:03.460 --> 15:06.140 And again, this is that mystery that's being revealed 15:06.620 --> 15:09.320 through the apostle Paul and the church at Ephesus 15:09.320 --> 15:11.100 and the church at Rome and all these churches 15:11.100 --> 15:14.080 that the apostle Paul is forming is illustrating 15:14.080 --> 15:16.360 that God really is saving the Gentiles, 15:16.740 --> 15:19.220 that this really is working, this is really fulfillment. 15:19.800 --> 15:23.240 And this is what I like is in this particular verse, 15:23.600 --> 15:26.200 notice he's saying in verse 26, 15:26.200 --> 15:30.320 but now it's made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets. 15:30.800 --> 15:34.880 So it's not like, oh, well, we have to get some new information 15:34.880 --> 15:36.760 of the Old Testament already had all that information. 15:37.480 --> 15:39.340 It's just now we're connecting the dots, 15:39.700 --> 15:43.240 now we're taking those Old Testament verses 15:43.800 --> 15:46.660 and we're applying them and they're about us 15:46.660 --> 15:48.520 and they're written for our admonition. 15:48.780 --> 15:49.840 I mean, think about first Corinthians, 15:50.000 --> 15:51.820 he's saying, hey, these stories were written 15:51.820 --> 15:54.560 for our admonition and they were talking about us 15:54.560 --> 15:56.060 and they were talking about us being represented. 15:56.400 --> 15:57.980 I mean, think about how much replacement theology 15:57.980 --> 16:00.460 is in the Old Testament that was not written for them 16:00.460 --> 16:02.900 at that time, it was written for the first century 16:02.900 --> 16:05.180 and beyond to bring up the concept, 16:05.320 --> 16:06.620 hey, you guys are being brought in 16:06.620 --> 16:08.100 just like the Bible is talking about 16:08.100 --> 16:09.980 and all these replacement stories 16:09.980 --> 16:14.600 like Esther replacing Vashti, what was the point of that? 16:15.080 --> 16:18.140 It's to foreshadow the Ephesians getting saved. 16:18.640 --> 16:20.840 It's to foreshadow the Romans getting saved. 16:21.180 --> 16:23.260 And now just like Esther replaced Vashti, 16:23.260 --> 16:26.260 now the church is basically taking on that role 16:26.940 --> 16:29.040 that the physical nation of Israel was playing 16:29.580 --> 16:31.580 and they're better and more loved 16:31.580 --> 16:34.040 and in all kinds of different things 16:34.040 --> 16:35.260 because the book of Esther 16:35.260 --> 16:37.280 is really an end times prophetic book too, 16:37.860 --> 16:39.920 but I believe it has dual layering 16:39.920 --> 16:41.740 as dual layering in the sense that, 16:41.900 --> 16:44.500 hey, they're the church and then it also has 16:44.500 --> 16:47.120 the end times double application that we could look at. 16:47.380 --> 16:49.460 But of course, the book of Esther, 16:49.520 --> 16:51.480 I do believe is legitimate scripture, 16:51.480 --> 16:52.820 go to Colossians chapter one, 16:53.560 --> 16:54.680 Colossians chapter number one, 16:54.780 --> 16:57.480 some people would put a question mark on the book of Esther, 16:57.620 --> 16:59.580 but when you really look at the pictures 16:59.580 --> 17:01.960 and the symbolism, it's clearly the word of God 17:02.420 --> 17:04.160 and it has clear power on every page. 17:05.520 --> 17:07.160 But think about the book of Esther, 17:07.340 --> 17:08.580 Esther is written at a time, 17:08.680 --> 17:12.380 it's kind of like the end of the history of the Jews 17:12.380 --> 17:14.000 and the nation of Israel. 17:14.900 --> 17:17.760 There's really not a lot of time from Esther to the end. 17:17.840 --> 17:19.060 It's kind of one of the last books, 17:19.080 --> 17:20.720 it's one of the later books in history. 17:21.270 --> 17:23.300 It's not really for that group of people, 17:23.440 --> 17:24.660 it's kind of a foreshadow, what? 17:25.240 --> 17:27.460 foreshadow this changing of the guard, 17:27.700 --> 17:28.540 the replacement theology, 17:29.260 --> 17:31.020 and then of course it's gonna be used again 17:31.020 --> 17:33.240 in a prophetic sense to tell us what's gonna happen 17:33.240 --> 17:34.820 in the end times with the Antichrist 17:34.820 --> 17:36.460 and Daniel 70th week. 17:36.960 --> 17:40.160 So of course, I like that what he's saying 17:40.160 --> 17:41.780 in Romans chapter 16 is, 17:42.300 --> 17:45.200 hey, right now we're understanding all these things 17:45.200 --> 17:46.840 because of what was written in the Old Testament 17:46.840 --> 17:48.020 or was written in the prophets. 17:48.720 --> 17:50.920 Just like when we go through the end times, 17:51.320 --> 17:53.560 we're gonna be pulling out verses from the Bible 17:54.060 --> 17:55.900 that were for that time specifically. 17:56.600 --> 17:58.260 And we're gonna be able to pull out understanding 17:58.260 --> 18:01.320 and wisdom and knowledge from the Old Testament 18:01.320 --> 18:03.980 that maybe wasn't really understood in times past 18:03.980 --> 18:06.520 like it is now as it's being rolled out. 18:07.240 --> 18:08.120 So sometimes people have, 18:08.720 --> 18:12.340 oh well what was the historic view of the end times 18:12.340 --> 18:13.420 and the rapture and stuff? 18:13.820 --> 18:15.640 Well maybe that's not necessarily the right question 18:16.160 --> 18:17.980 because just like the Bible is saying, 18:18.040 --> 18:21.300 hey, in other ages people didn't really understand 18:21.300 --> 18:24.620 this mystery the way that we understand it, 18:24.960 --> 18:27.100 then why would I think that it would be any different 18:27.100 --> 18:28.880 that when we get to the end times 18:28.880 --> 18:31.200 and there's certain mysteries like the mystery of iniquity 18:31.720 --> 18:33.060 or the mystery of God 18:33.500 --> 18:36.920 that we will understand it in a unique way 18:36.920 --> 18:38.760 that people didn't understand in the past 18:39.220 --> 18:41.100 because it's actually playing out before our eyes. 18:41.400 --> 18:44.480 But again, we're not pulling it out from thin air. 18:44.480 --> 18:47.500 We're not pulling it out of a hat, a rabbit out of a hat. 18:47.660 --> 18:48.900 We're pulling it out of the Bible 18:49.400 --> 18:51.180 because it was in the scripture of the prophets. 18:51.840 --> 18:53.600 So hey, anytime you have any belief 18:53.600 --> 18:54.800 it should be coming from the Bible 18:55.400 --> 18:57.760 not necessarily a historical understanding 18:58.220 --> 18:59.320 because isn't that proof? 18:59.520 --> 19:01.440 Hey, in other ages they didn't understand this 19:01.900 --> 19:03.000 but we understand it. 19:03.140 --> 19:04.080 But what did we go to? 19:04.200 --> 19:07.220 We didn't go to some golden tablets 19:07.220 --> 19:08.720 buried out in the middle of the forest. 19:09.140 --> 19:11.340 No, we went back to the scriptures of the holy prophets 19:11.340 --> 19:13.260 and we understood what the Bible is actually saying 19:13.260 --> 19:14.640 or applying the scripture. 19:14.960 --> 19:17.340 Colossians chapter one, look at verse number 25. 19:19.120 --> 19:21.180 Where have I made a minister according to the dispensation 19:21.180 --> 19:23.060 of God which is given to me for you 19:23.620 --> 19:24.620 to fulfill the word of God? 19:24.960 --> 19:27.060 Even the mystery which have been hid 19:27.700 --> 19:29.660 from ages and from generations 19:30.380 --> 19:34.020 but now is made manifest to his saints 19:34.020 --> 19:36.260 to whom God would make known what is the riches 19:36.260 --> 19:37.840 of the glory of this mystery 19:38.380 --> 19:41.860 among the Gentiles which is Christ in you 19:41.860 --> 19:43.100 the hope of glory. 19:43.480 --> 19:47.280 So notice what is the mystery that Christ is in the Gentiles 19:48.280 --> 19:49.500 but what does the Bible say? 19:49.620 --> 19:52.060 The Bible plainly states in verse 26 19:52.480 --> 19:55.940 have been hid from ages and from generations 19:56.580 --> 19:59.440 so that everybody have the right understanding. 20:00.360 --> 20:03.220 Do we have to go back to the historical understanding? 20:03.460 --> 20:06.260 Well, this is what traditionally everybody understood 20:06.260 --> 20:07.880 for the last 500 years. 20:08.160 --> 20:10.320 Well, who gives a rip what that is 20:10.320 --> 20:12.400 because sometimes it's been hid. 20:12.900 --> 20:14.540 Sometimes it wasn't understood. 20:16.040 --> 20:17.640 People that all kinds of ideas 20:17.640 --> 20:19.340 of what the end time is gonna look like 20:19.340 --> 20:21.260 and how things are gonna be understood. 20:22.280 --> 20:24.400 Passages like, hey, knowledge is gonna abound 20:24.880 --> 20:26.620 and people are gonna be running to and fro. 20:27.240 --> 20:31.180 Well, if we read that verse in the 1600s, 1700s 20:31.180 --> 20:33.260 we would think like, oh yeah, look, 20:33.380 --> 20:34.720 people are going on ships and stuff 20:35.220 --> 20:36.960 but now it's like people are going on airplanes. 20:37.440 --> 20:40.280 People are traveling in all kinds of unique ways 20:40.280 --> 20:41.380 that we've never seen before 20:41.940 --> 20:43.660 and so we have an even better understanding 20:43.660 --> 20:44.820 of people going to and fro. 20:45.620 --> 20:48.660 I mean, at one point, they used to have the Concorde 20:48.660 --> 20:52.220 which is flying like 2000, I think miles per hour. 20:53.080 --> 20:56.400 You could take a flight from America over into Europe 20:56.400 --> 20:57.740 and it'd be like an hour or two 20:58.320 --> 20:59.440 because they were flying at high speeds 20:59.440 --> 21:00.800 now they've shut down that program 21:01.400 --> 21:03.600 but who knows what new programs 21:03.600 --> 21:05.260 may be invented or brought up 21:05.260 --> 21:08.200 and while we think we understand right now 21:08.200 --> 21:09.840 it could even get more advanced. 21:10.940 --> 21:13.900 We have no idea what technology is gonna do 21:14.280 --> 21:16.320 and we don't know exactly what the timeline is 21:16.780 --> 21:19.720 but I would venture to say we should be willing 21:19.720 --> 21:23.040 to accept the idea that when we get to the end times 21:23.040 --> 21:25.940 people may not have actually understood things correctly 21:25.940 --> 21:26.520 until then. 21:26.900 --> 21:29.200 We may not actually have the right doctrine 21:29.200 --> 21:31.040 and so we should always be cautious 21:31.040 --> 21:34.620 about our views of these mysteries in the end times 21:34.620 --> 21:36.400 and be willing to adapt. 21:36.840 --> 21:38.860 But here's the thing, we wanna make sure anything we believe 21:38.860 --> 21:40.220 is based on what the scripture actually says. 21:41.040 --> 21:43.420 We're always rooted and grounded in what the scripture says 21:43.940 --> 21:45.980 but we can't always just say, 21:46.120 --> 21:48.660 well, this is what was historically understood 21:49.150 --> 21:50.660 so therefore it must be right. 21:51.200 --> 21:52.420 Isn't the Bible plainly saying, 21:52.580 --> 21:54.280 hey, this is something that nobody even understood 21:54.280 --> 21:58.220 or nobody knew for generations, for ages. 21:58.940 --> 22:02.500 So, oh well, we trust tradition. 22:02.500 --> 22:04.040 Well, we don't trust tradition, we trust the scripture. 22:04.840 --> 22:06.900 We trust the scripture over whatever your tradition is 22:06.900 --> 22:08.240 because you know what, tradition could be wrong 22:08.240 --> 22:10.020 and tradition could be wrong for a long time, 22:10.120 --> 22:11.260 people could misunderstand things, 22:11.420 --> 22:12.760 people could be wrong on things 22:12.760 --> 22:15.820 and so we wanna make sure that anything we believe 22:15.820 --> 22:17.140 is based on the Bible itself. 22:17.260 --> 22:18.460 Go back if you went to Ephesians three. 22:19.800 --> 22:22.580 So I just wanted to show it's not like one passage here. 22:22.800 --> 22:24.200 There's a lot of passages bringing up 22:24.200 --> 22:25.100 how the mystery was, 22:25.600 --> 22:26.860 the Gentiles that we grafted in, 22:27.140 --> 22:28.540 crisis in the Gentiles, 22:28.960 --> 22:31.060 that the gospel is going to all nations 22:31.940 --> 22:35.440 and what's interesting about the wording here in verse seven, 22:35.960 --> 22:39.240 the apostle Paul says that the gift of the grace 22:39.240 --> 22:43.300 of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power, 22:43.560 --> 22:46.260 effectual, what do we mean by effectual? 22:47.180 --> 22:48.780 Effectual, think about it as effective, 22:49.780 --> 22:52.800 meaning that what happened really happened. 22:52.880 --> 22:54.800 It was very effective what was happening 22:55.300 --> 22:57.360 because look, when God is working with you, 22:57.620 --> 22:58.940 it's gonna be effective. 22:59.600 --> 23:02.720 You know, we have the God of the universe on your side 23:02.720 --> 23:05.080 working with you, something's gonna happen. 23:05.540 --> 23:08.380 So I don't believe in the power of God 23:08.380 --> 23:10.960 and the work of God on someone's life 23:10.960 --> 23:12.660 and we can't see any results. 23:13.300 --> 23:16.180 No, when the apostle Paul has God working on him 23:16.180 --> 23:18.080 and through him, it's very effective. 23:18.540 --> 23:21.620 It's the effectual working of his power. 23:22.260 --> 23:23.300 God is powerful. 23:23.740 --> 23:25.420 So if God's working with someone, 23:25.980 --> 23:26.960 it's gonna be powerful. 23:27.520 --> 23:29.960 I do not believe that God is working through someone 23:29.960 --> 23:33.040 and it's ineffective, it's not happening, 23:33.280 --> 23:35.160 there's no power, there's no might. 23:35.660 --> 23:37.540 No, no, when God is working with someone 23:37.540 --> 23:39.900 or through someone, it's gonna be effective. 23:40.480 --> 23:42.380 And so when you're not being effective, 23:42.960 --> 23:44.300 this is what you have to ask yourself, 23:44.440 --> 23:46.260 am I really working with God? 23:46.540 --> 23:48.440 Is God really working with me? 23:49.060 --> 23:51.900 You know, if you're just preaching sermon after sermon 23:51.900 --> 23:55.940 and it's having no effect, nobody's lives are changed, 23:56.460 --> 23:58.140 nobody's resonating with the preaching, 23:58.880 --> 24:00.640 nobody's abiding by the preaching, 24:01.000 --> 24:01.720 you kinda have to wonder, 24:01.900 --> 24:03.960 is God's power working through that preaching? 24:05.340 --> 24:07.620 If your evangelism method, 24:08.020 --> 24:09.220 like you're trying to get people saved, 24:09.480 --> 24:11.980 if your evangelism method is not effective, 24:12.440 --> 24:14.520 then God is not working through you. 24:15.180 --> 24:16.920 Because let me explain something to you, 24:17.000 --> 24:19.640 there's an effectual working of his power. 24:20.280 --> 24:20.860 And you know what? 24:21.480 --> 24:24.800 It is real that God works through evangelism 24:24.800 --> 24:27.220 because we can go and knock on someone's door 24:27.220 --> 24:28.780 with our method of soul winning 24:28.780 --> 24:32.700 and take them from being 20, 25, 30 years of Catholic 24:32.700 --> 24:35.300 and turn them into a fundamental Baptist in 15 minutes. 24:35.480 --> 24:37.280 That's effectual working of his power. 24:39.180 --> 24:42.180 And look, you can see the power of the gospel 24:42.180 --> 24:45.420 when you walk up to people that are not interested, 24:45.720 --> 24:48.700 don't care, ready to walk away at a moment's notice, 24:49.060 --> 24:50.460 and in 10, 15 minutes, 24:50.640 --> 24:53.040 you can totally change their entire world view. 24:53.560 --> 24:55.660 You can bring a grown man to tears. 24:56.260 --> 24:58.360 You can change people's complete outlook. 24:58.620 --> 25:00.180 You can take them from gloom 25:00.180 --> 25:03.880 and turn them into gladness with the power of the gospel. 25:03.960 --> 25:04.880 Because let me tell you something, 25:05.000 --> 25:06.660 the gospel is effectual, 25:06.920 --> 25:09.100 the gospel is effective and it does something. 25:09.640 --> 25:11.860 And you know, all these other gimmicky methods, 25:12.440 --> 25:14.720 all this Ray Comfort style soul winning 25:14.720 --> 25:17.420 where they're just pestering people about being a sinner 25:17.420 --> 25:18.440 and when you're gonna penny or cents, 25:18.720 --> 25:19.480 it's not effective. 25:20.420 --> 25:22.700 You know, I know Ray Comfort is not of God, 25:22.700 --> 25:24.520 because this method is not effective. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.960 When's the last time you've ever seen him 25:26.960 --> 25:29.320 upload a video of a successful conversion? 25:30.620 --> 25:33.580 The guy just uploads just video after video 25:33.580 --> 25:34.960 of him getting no one saved. 25:35.460 --> 25:38.360 Just video after video, fail after fail, 25:38.540 --> 25:39.980 after fail, after fail. 25:40.520 --> 25:42.900 You'd think like, do you realize 25:42.900 --> 25:44.800 that you're failing every single time? 25:45.800 --> 25:48.160 And look, I get that we have examples 25:48.160 --> 25:49.420 of someone like Jeremiah, 25:50.020 --> 25:54.260 where hey, the whole world is so evil and so wicked 25:54.260 --> 25:56.440 that even the greatest preaching ever 25:57.360 --> 26:00.980 isn't really turning a lot of people back to the Lord. 26:01.460 --> 26:06.600 But it's still very effective because everybody's flipping out. 26:07.680 --> 26:10.640 I mean, it's one thing to not reach people, 26:10.940 --> 26:13.720 but if you're reaching everyone 26:13.720 --> 26:14.760 and they're not converting, 26:15.080 --> 26:17.940 that's still the working of God, right? 26:18.420 --> 26:20.020 Ray Comfort isn't reaching anybody, 26:20.280 --> 26:21.300 because no one cares. 26:22.020 --> 26:24.000 What happened when Jeremiah got up and preached? 26:24.400 --> 26:25.260 They threw him in prison. 26:26.080 --> 26:27.080 Everybody's freaking out. 26:27.440 --> 26:29.100 They're trying to burn the letter that he wrote. 26:29.560 --> 26:31.960 Like everybody's mad and the whole nation 26:31.960 --> 26:33.280 is hearing the words of Jeremiah. 26:33.760 --> 26:36.020 Not only that, the Bible says that Jeremiah 26:36.020 --> 26:38.980 went to literally every single place in the world 26:38.980 --> 26:40.100 preaching the word of God. 26:41.160 --> 26:43.220 He went everywhere to the uttermost parts 26:43.220 --> 26:44.760 of the earth preaching the word of God. 26:44.940 --> 26:45.700 That's effective. 26:46.660 --> 26:49.560 The guy that preached to everyone and to everywhere 26:49.560 --> 26:50.880 and everyone's hearing the message 26:50.880 --> 26:52.380 and they're getting so mad 26:52.380 --> 26:54.940 and everybody wants to attack them and persecute them. 26:54.980 --> 26:56.200 Well, then that's still effective. 26:57.080 --> 26:58.960 Look, getting the word of God out 26:58.960 --> 27:02.140 to millions and billions of people is crazy 27:02.860 --> 27:04.740 because usually you're not even trying. 27:05.500 --> 27:07.960 You know, sometimes you'll see my preaching 27:07.960 --> 27:09.820 or other people's preaching go viral 27:10.460 --> 27:12.060 and I don't think that that's an accident. 27:12.880 --> 27:14.120 I mean, look, it's not like, 27:14.120 --> 27:15.600 oh, well, you can just get attention 27:15.600 --> 27:16.400 if you want to get attention. 27:16.680 --> 27:17.420 I don't believe that. 27:17.640 --> 27:18.560 I mean, think about it. 27:18.620 --> 27:22.140 How many Pentecostals are doing the craziest, weirdest stuff 27:22.140 --> 27:23.480 on the planet and no one cares? 27:24.000 --> 27:25.540 I mean, there's people with snakes 27:25.540 --> 27:27.660 and doing all kinds, I'm not doing anything like that. 27:28.500 --> 27:32.280 And again, sometimes they're just so weird and creepy 27:32.280 --> 27:33.420 that people give them attention 27:33.420 --> 27:35.880 but it doesn't, all it does is just 27:35.880 --> 27:38.300 everybody points and laughs and thinks it's done. 27:38.940 --> 27:41.380 Nobody's going to go persecute them, right? 27:41.380 --> 27:43.460 I mean, there's like this Michael Todd 27:44.220 --> 27:46.380 of the transformation church in Tulsa. 27:46.760 --> 27:49.220 This guy is getting viral on a regular basis 27:49.220 --> 27:51.880 but because he's doing the creepiest, weirdest stuff 27:51.880 --> 27:52.920 I've ever seen in my life 27:53.520 --> 27:55.220 and everybody's just kind of like, whoa, this is weird. 27:55.540 --> 27:56.500 But you know what's not happening? 27:57.000 --> 27:58.620 People are coming and protesting him. 27:59.180 --> 28:00.760 You know, he's getting in trouble with the government 28:00.760 --> 28:02.200 or people are trying to attack him 28:02.200 --> 28:03.320 or persecute him or whatever. 28:03.880 --> 28:05.480 So all those messages he's doing 28:05.480 --> 28:06.880 is just making Christianity look bad 28:06.880 --> 28:08.320 and make him look bad. 28:08.560 --> 28:10.420 But it's like, hey, when you see good preaching 28:10.420 --> 28:11.620 go viral, what does it do? 28:11.940 --> 28:15.080 It causes all people to email and get all these voicemails 28:15.080 --> 28:18.500 and to attack and to persecute and rile and be equal up 28:18.500 --> 28:19.440 and people are getting mad. 28:19.820 --> 28:20.840 Hey, that's still effective. 28:21.980 --> 28:23.480 And that's what you see in the Bible 28:23.480 --> 28:25.980 is the men of God, when they preach the word of God, 28:26.280 --> 28:28.000 it has power, it has effect 28:28.000 --> 28:30.720 because it's not their words, it's not their message, 28:30.780 --> 28:31.720 it's the word of God. 28:32.000 --> 28:33.620 And the word of God has power. 28:33.980 --> 28:36.180 And you always wonder like, why is this preacher 28:36.180 --> 28:37.680 never going viral? 28:37.940 --> 28:38.880 Let me explain it to you 28:38.880 --> 28:40.780 because he never preaches the word of God. 28:42.000 --> 28:43.800 Because if you're preaching the word of God 28:43.800 --> 28:46.980 with power and authority and God's working through you, 28:47.260 --> 28:48.080 let me tell you something. 28:48.400 --> 28:49.820 God's gonna cause that message 28:49.820 --> 28:51.500 to be rung out throughout all the world. 28:52.280 --> 28:53.300 And not only is he gonna cause it 28:53.300 --> 28:54.320 to be rung out through all the world, 28:54.560 --> 28:56.140 it's gonna change people's lives. 28:56.540 --> 28:59.260 People are gonna be happy, mad, upset. 28:59.680 --> 29:00.960 People are gonna actually convert. 29:01.220 --> 29:02.160 People are not gonna convert. 29:02.340 --> 29:03.520 Some people might become reprobate 29:03.520 --> 29:04.820 by hearing the message enough. 29:05.060 --> 29:05.500 But you know what? 29:05.700 --> 29:06.740 Something's gonna happen. 29:07.160 --> 29:07.800 And you know what? 29:07.880 --> 29:09.940 When the apostle Paul went into the world 29:09.940 --> 29:12.380 and he preached the word of God, something happened. 29:13.080 --> 29:14.800 The whole town lost its mind. 29:15.440 --> 29:17.300 And of course, there was positive reaction. 29:17.700 --> 29:19.240 There was very negative reaction. 29:19.500 --> 29:20.820 But let me tell you something, there was reaction. 29:21.200 --> 29:23.820 And it was the effectual working of his power 29:23.820 --> 29:26.040 because God is real. 29:26.620 --> 29:28.360 The word of God is real. 29:28.440 --> 29:30.720 There's real power, there's real truth in it. 29:31.100 --> 29:31.780 So you know what? 29:32.200 --> 29:35.280 Why is it that there's so many pastors and preachers 29:35.280 --> 29:37.380 where we see nothing happening 29:37.380 --> 29:39.920 because they're not preaching the word of God 29:39.920 --> 29:41.540 and God is not working through them? 29:42.320 --> 29:42.880 That's why. 29:43.100 --> 29:45.000 Why are there evangelism accomplishing nothing 29:45.000 --> 29:46.600 because they're not preaching the word of God? 29:46.960 --> 29:47.480 And you know what? 29:48.180 --> 29:50.400 Where it's like, show your faith without your works. 29:50.580 --> 29:51.960 I'll show you my faith by my works. 29:52.320 --> 29:54.120 It's like, hey, I wonder where God's working. 29:54.480 --> 29:56.080 Well, how about, I don't know, maybe the Philippines 29:56.080 --> 29:57.220 where you see churches 29:57.740 --> 29:59.760 getting thousands of people saved every month 29:59.760 --> 30:02.540 and tens of thousands saved a year. 30:02.980 --> 30:04.180 That's where God's working. 30:04.860 --> 30:06.880 Not the missionary letter that's like, 30:06.900 --> 30:08.740 hey, we're now running 12. 30:09.780 --> 30:12.360 My family and these three people 30:12.360 --> 30:14.980 and this one guy's been coming to church for six months. 30:15.060 --> 30:16.780 I'm hoping he's getting saved one day. 30:17.560 --> 30:20.320 And I just learned another new word in our language, 30:20.920 --> 30:22.940 pray that I'll eventually be able to give the gospel 30:22.940 --> 30:24.580 and the foreign language. 30:25.060 --> 30:27.800 And it's just like, God's not working through that person. 30:28.700 --> 30:30.100 Like, I can't even understand 30:30.100 --> 30:33.060 how you could be on the mission field for seven years 30:33.060 --> 30:35.760 getting no one saved and then reading the book of Acts. 30:36.960 --> 30:38.660 Reading the gospel of Acts. 30:38.860 --> 30:41.620 And it's just like, 2,000 saved, 3,000 saved. 30:41.820 --> 30:44.620 Paul's getting everybody upset and making them mad. 30:44.840 --> 30:46.320 How could you be a missionary to Europe 30:46.320 --> 30:47.940 and no one's ever protesting you? 30:48.900 --> 30:50.440 No one's ever getting mad at you. 30:51.380 --> 30:54.080 I mean, how many missionaries are in Jerusalem? 30:55.040 --> 30:57.520 I don't understand how a new IP pastor would do 30:57.520 --> 31:01.340 or evangelists would be doing in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. 31:01.980 --> 31:04.920 You know, I mean like, something would happen. 31:05.180 --> 31:05.760 You know what I mean? 31:06.800 --> 31:09.300 And again, you look at ministries that are effective, 31:09.920 --> 31:10.900 something's gonna happen. 31:11.480 --> 31:13.100 You know, you look at Jack Hiles 31:13.100 --> 31:15.120 and people that have been graduates of Hiles Anderson 31:15.500 --> 31:17.760 that have gone out and followed his success. 31:18.400 --> 31:19.840 Look, something happened. 31:20.560 --> 31:22.040 You need to take Pastor Kevin Wynn goes down 31:22.040 --> 31:24.260 to Mexico City, now he's running 10,000 people. 31:24.560 --> 31:25.440 Something happened. 31:26.420 --> 31:28.300 That's evidence that God was working with him 31:28.300 --> 31:29.280 and it's very effectual. 31:29.720 --> 31:31.760 The effectual working of his power. 31:32.140 --> 31:33.620 And again, it's not about Kevin Wynn. 31:33.940 --> 31:34.740 It's about the Bible. 31:35.040 --> 31:35.880 It's about the gospel. 31:36.040 --> 31:37.340 It's about the word of God being priest 31:37.340 --> 31:38.640 that you see the results. 31:39.060 --> 31:40.180 And if you don't see the results, 31:40.360 --> 31:42.220 you have to ask this question, is God really working? 31:43.300 --> 31:43.760 But you know what? 31:43.840 --> 31:46.100 Where God is working, you will see results. 31:46.340 --> 31:48.240 You will see the effectual working of his power 31:48.760 --> 31:49.760 and we saw that. 31:50.220 --> 31:51.740 Paul went out under the Gentiles 31:51.740 --> 31:54.080 and we saw the effectual working of his power. 31:54.340 --> 31:55.780 We saw many people getting saved 31:55.780 --> 31:58.740 and churches being formed and people hearing the word of God. 31:58.740 --> 32:01.240 He turned the whole world upside down with the gospel. 32:02.260 --> 32:05.240 Idolatry is in jeopardy in many of these areas. 32:05.500 --> 32:07.380 Something is happening, okay? 32:07.580 --> 32:09.200 And then of course they call it drama. 32:10.640 --> 32:11.340 Well, guess what? 32:11.500 --> 32:13.520 You want no drama, go to a church 32:13.520 --> 32:14.520 where they won't preach the Bible. 32:15.440 --> 32:17.340 Because someone that's gonna preach the Bible 32:17.340 --> 32:18.620 is guaranteed drama. 32:19.380 --> 32:21.600 Someone that will not preach the Bible well, 32:21.720 --> 32:24.020 then you can have the least amount of drama 32:24.020 --> 32:25.360 and the least amount of turbulence 32:26.020 --> 32:27.820 and you can just have so much fun 32:27.820 --> 32:30.440 as we all become Democrat, you know? 32:31.220 --> 32:32.720 I mean, what's the point? 32:33.640 --> 32:35.000 I mean, do you really want to get along 32:35.980 --> 32:38.200 with the world and the direction they're headed? 32:38.940 --> 32:40.520 You just want to become Democrat light? 32:42.300 --> 32:44.140 I mean, you just want to become feminist. 32:44.340 --> 32:45.320 Well, we're on the second wave. 32:45.620 --> 32:47.100 I know the world's on the fourth wave 32:47.100 --> 32:48.400 but we just want to be on the second wave. 32:49.800 --> 32:50.940 And then when they get on the fifth, 32:51.100 --> 32:53.320 we'll probably think about the third a little bit, right? 32:54.160 --> 32:55.080 I mean, it's just like, 32:55.480 --> 32:56.780 I mean, look at the Republican Party. 32:56.780 --> 32:58.160 The Republican Party, you know, 32:58.200 --> 33:01.060 in this last midterm election just totally got destroyed. 33:02.860 --> 33:04.700 And I'm just trying to be honest with you, 33:04.820 --> 33:08.180 like, why are we in the situation that we're in? 33:08.600 --> 33:10.840 Okay, it's just because evil just keeps getting more, 33:11.060 --> 33:13.000 it just escalates more and more, okay? 33:13.600 --> 33:15.720 And the Republicans, while they're bad in their trash, 33:15.940 --> 33:17.620 I get it, they still represent 33:17.620 --> 33:20.180 kind of the little bit more moral party, 33:20.480 --> 33:22.880 at least on paper, at least by lip service, okay? 33:23.780 --> 33:25.640 And the problem is, is they say, 33:25.640 --> 33:29.540 okay, well, the moral party is the minority. 33:30.220 --> 33:33.480 So we can't win by just appealing by being moral, 33:33.840 --> 33:35.840 so we have to compromise a little bit 33:35.840 --> 33:36.920 to reach more people in the middle. 33:37.120 --> 33:38.500 And this is why you see the Republicans 33:38.500 --> 33:41.360 becoming the Democrats of the year, you know, five years ago. 33:41.940 --> 33:44.120 It's because they think we can't win 33:44.120 --> 33:47.380 by staying, you know, sticking to our convictions. 33:47.780 --> 33:51.400 So we're just gonna become a little bit more watered down. 33:51.600 --> 33:54.000 We gotta appeal to that middle group a little bit more. 33:54.000 --> 33:57.600 And so the Democrat party just becomes more like Satan 33:57.600 --> 33:59.080 and the Republicans are like, 33:59.080 --> 34:00.260 well, we gotta kind of move this way. 34:00.440 --> 34:03.100 And that's why you also see, it's like red wave, 34:03.420 --> 34:05.340 blue wave, red wave, blue wave. 34:05.480 --> 34:06.700 But really all it's doing is just ever 34:06.700 --> 34:08.760 just going this direction, just going towards Satan. 34:09.100 --> 34:10.780 He was all moving towards Satan or whatever. 34:11.340 --> 34:13.060 And of course, as you move further and further 34:13.060 --> 34:14.580 towards Satan, what happens? 34:14.780 --> 34:16.120 Well, the people that are steadfast 34:16.540 --> 34:17.940 just seem more crazy. 34:18.340 --> 34:20.020 Cause y'all keep going like this 34:20.020 --> 34:22.220 and we're just kind of like, hey, I'm over here. 34:22.220 --> 34:22.880 Okay. 34:24.280 --> 34:26.400 But, you know, by us being over here, 34:26.740 --> 34:28.460 we keep them even more anchored. 34:28.840 --> 34:30.640 We're like the anchor and that ship 34:30.640 --> 34:32.040 just keeps going and going and going, 34:32.160 --> 34:35.100 but it can only go so far because there's an anchor there. 34:35.340 --> 34:36.420 If we let go of the anchor, 34:36.680 --> 34:37.860 well then the ship's just gonna go. 34:39.800 --> 34:41.220 So don't get mad at me 34:41.220 --> 34:42.840 for keeping everybody anchored a little bit. 34:44.140 --> 34:47.360 You know, on false doctrine, on Bible versions, 34:47.960 --> 34:48.900 on all the other stuff. 34:48.980 --> 34:50.300 And again, it's not just me, it's us. 34:50.300 --> 34:53.220 Us as a church, because if it wasn't for you too, 34:53.580 --> 34:54.460 we wouldn't even have a church. 34:54.740 --> 34:57.120 We're the ones anchoring our country 34:57.120 --> 34:58.360 and our nation and our reality. 34:58.960 --> 35:02.560 And so it's important that we do our job 35:03.140 --> 35:04.760 so that we can reach the world. 35:04.920 --> 35:06.280 And look, we wanna be effective. 35:06.860 --> 35:08.660 I don't wanna just preach to no one. 35:08.740 --> 35:10.440 I don't wanna just, well, the world's getting bad, 35:10.520 --> 35:11.820 so let's just turn off the sermons. 35:12.720 --> 35:14.040 Let's just hide. 35:14.800 --> 35:16.080 Let's just stop letting people know. 35:16.380 --> 35:17.780 Now it's password protected. 35:19.100 --> 35:21.700 And as soon as the sermons been, you know, 35:21.760 --> 35:22.640 seen a couple of weeks, 35:23.020 --> 35:24.240 we'll just take it off the archives. 35:24.480 --> 35:25.840 No one can even access it anymore. 35:26.500 --> 35:28.200 Or hey, we'll make it on tapes 35:28.200 --> 35:29.460 and you have to pay for the tape 35:29.460 --> 35:30.940 and then you have to return it. 35:31.160 --> 35:32.740 Don't make any copies of it. 35:33.220 --> 35:35.120 And in fact, we'll put a copyright strike 35:35.120 --> 35:37.200 on your YouTube channel if you share it with anybody. 35:38.260 --> 35:40.520 You know, this is not the type of Christianity I want. 35:41.400 --> 35:43.440 And why would I want less people 35:43.440 --> 35:44.080 to hear the word of God? 35:44.560 --> 35:48.080 You know, the apostle Paul is going into a very heathen, 35:48.080 --> 35:51.020 pagan world that is not of God 35:51.520 --> 35:53.080 and he is being very effective. 35:53.680 --> 35:55.700 And so, you know, we need to do the same thing 35:55.700 --> 35:57.220 and be this bright and shining light 35:57.220 --> 35:58.540 and getting people saved, 35:58.680 --> 35:59.620 because if our gospel we hid, 35:59.700 --> 36:00.640 it's hid to them that are lost. 36:01.440 --> 36:02.740 Look back at verse eight. 36:02.860 --> 36:03.320 The Bible says, 36:03.460 --> 36:07.480 unto me who am less than the least of all saints 36:07.480 --> 36:09.220 is this grace given that I should preach 36:09.220 --> 36:12.160 among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ 36:12.600 --> 36:14.720 and to make all men see what is the fellowship 36:14.720 --> 36:15.340 of the mystery, 36:15.920 --> 36:17.040 which from the beginning of the world 36:17.040 --> 36:18.480 have been hidden God who created all things 36:18.480 --> 36:20.580 by Jesus Christ to the intent 36:20.580 --> 36:22.820 that now under the principalities and powers 36:22.820 --> 36:24.500 and heavenly places might be known 36:24.500 --> 36:26.960 by the church, the manifold wisdom of God. 36:27.300 --> 36:28.520 According to the eternal purpose, 36:28.680 --> 36:31.300 which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord 36:31.300 --> 36:32.940 and whom we have boldness and access 36:32.940 --> 36:34.440 with confidence by the faith of him. 36:34.880 --> 36:36.200 So again, this is just reiterating everything 36:36.200 --> 36:37.200 we've just been talking about. 36:38.520 --> 36:39.280 What is it? 36:39.620 --> 36:40.940 Hey, the fellowship of the, 36:40.940 --> 36:42.380 what was the mystery that we were fellowship 36:42.380 --> 36:44.800 that we have fellow heirs that were all joined together? 36:45.040 --> 36:46.340 Again, Jews and Gentiles. 36:47.380 --> 36:50.660 Notice which from the beginning of the world 36:51.300 --> 36:52.380 have been hidden God. 36:53.080 --> 36:55.320 So how long have people been wrong on this doctrine? 36:56.440 --> 36:57.300 The whole time. 36:58.340 --> 36:58.840 He's saying, hey, 36:58.960 --> 37:02.780 this was hidden from the beginning until now. 37:03.040 --> 37:04.920 It's not something that was really understood. 37:05.380 --> 37:06.720 People didn't really see it. 37:06.760 --> 37:07.840 People didn't really understand 37:07.840 --> 37:08.860 how this was gonna work. 37:09.240 --> 37:10.600 Now it's being revealed. 37:10.600 --> 37:12.180 Now we understand it. 37:12.780 --> 37:16.440 And of course it is something that in verse number 12 37:16.440 --> 37:17.800 in whom we have boldness 37:18.210 --> 37:20.960 and access with confidence by faith of him. 37:21.140 --> 37:23.460 So even if something is new, 37:23.880 --> 37:25.640 newly understood, newly revealed, 37:25.900 --> 37:28.200 we should still have boldness in our belief. 37:28.940 --> 37:29.960 You know, oh well, 37:30.340 --> 37:32.420 people haven't had that exact understanding. 37:32.640 --> 37:33.820 Okay, but is that what the Bible says? 37:34.300 --> 37:35.160 Then we should have boldness 37:35.160 --> 37:35.860 and we should believe it anyways. 37:36.320 --> 37:38.560 Verse 13, 37:38.560 --> 37:41.540 wherefore I desire that you think not at my tribulations 37:41.540 --> 37:42.900 for you, which is your glory. 37:43.480 --> 37:48.720 So he's wanting them to understand all of this doctrine 37:48.720 --> 37:51.300 and get all this stuff in their minds. 37:52.280 --> 37:53.720 And part of the reason is 37:54.220 --> 37:56.040 because Paul is constantly being persecuted. 37:56.460 --> 38:00.400 Paul is constantly experiencing pushback, negativity. 38:01.080 --> 38:03.220 And he doesn't want them to quit or give up 38:03.840 --> 38:05.220 because of what's happening to him. 38:05.540 --> 38:06.960 He says, hey, instead it should be a glory. 38:07.560 --> 38:10.080 And it's like, hey, LGBT terrorist documentary 38:10.680 --> 38:11.940 shouldn't be a reason to not come 38:11.940 --> 38:13.000 to Steadfast Baptist Church. 38:13.340 --> 38:15.600 It should be the glory of Steadfast Baptist Church. 38:16.080 --> 38:18.020 Look what we've gone through and look what we did 38:18.020 --> 38:19.040 and look what we accomplished 38:19.560 --> 38:21.540 and how we're still come on the other side. 38:22.140 --> 38:23.740 And you know, because we've gone through that, 38:24.220 --> 38:25.980 what we should do is we should say, hey, 38:26.800 --> 38:29.480 if we go through more tribulations in the future, 38:29.920 --> 38:33.180 instead of fainting, instead of giving up, 38:33.420 --> 38:36.080 instead of quitting, instead of being discouraged, 38:36.540 --> 38:38.760 we should say, hey, we're gonna count it glory. 38:38.940 --> 38:40.960 We're gonna count it joy to suffer persecution 38:41.540 --> 38:44.660 and to suffer tribulation because the reality is, 38:44.860 --> 38:47.360 I have no idea when the end times is gonna come, 38:47.600 --> 38:50.320 but there is future tribulation for sure. 38:52.080 --> 38:54.680 But even if you put aside the actual end times, 38:54.940 --> 38:57.120 the Bible says, yay in all that will love Godly 38:57.120 --> 38:59.280 and Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 39:00.340 --> 39:03.240 Well, but if I live in another state, 39:03.360 --> 39:04.220 then I won't be persecuted. 39:04.220 --> 39:05.160 That's just lies. 39:06.400 --> 39:07.340 You know why you won't be persecuted? 39:07.640 --> 39:08.800 Just cause you're not Godly. 39:08.900 --> 39:10.720 That's the only reason you won't suffer persecution 39:10.720 --> 39:11.500 or tribulation. 39:11.960 --> 39:13.560 So if you want to be Godly, 39:13.980 --> 39:16.580 you have to realize there's a consequence to this. 39:17.060 --> 39:18.940 It's the same way like, hey, I wanna get buff, 39:19.060 --> 39:19.700 I wanna get strong. 39:20.040 --> 39:20.760 Well, let me tell you something, 39:20.840 --> 39:21.600 you're gonna have to work out 39:21.600 --> 39:23.540 and working out, there's gonna be pain, 39:24.000 --> 39:25.840 there's gonna be difficulty, there's gonna be exhaustion. 39:26.440 --> 39:28.020 You know, you don't get buff and strong 39:28.540 --> 39:31.020 by using lightweight, low reps, 39:32.620 --> 39:33.780 inconsistent working out. 39:34.120 --> 39:35.320 No, you have to be steadfast, 39:35.540 --> 39:37.340 you have to be consistent, you have to push yourself, 39:37.800 --> 39:39.800 you have to exert yourself, it's gonna be difficult, 39:40.000 --> 39:42.820 there's pain, there's doms, delayed, 39:43.620 --> 39:45.520 onset muscle soreness or whatever. 39:45.820 --> 39:46.960 It's just like, good night. 39:47.800 --> 39:48.820 Dom's is rough. 39:49.820 --> 39:51.640 And doms is rough when you're 20s. 39:52.280 --> 39:54.700 Dom's is real rough in the 30s, 39:54.700 --> 39:57.060 especially towards the back end of the 30s. 39:57.580 --> 39:58.720 I haven't been in the 40s, 39:58.720 --> 39:59.620 so I can't speak or experience. 40:00.080 --> 40:01.300 I know it's gonna be rough. 40:02.380 --> 40:05.000 But I'm just saying like doms is a weird thing. 40:05.520 --> 40:07.360 They used to be like two days 40:07.360 --> 40:08.820 after you work out really hard, 40:09.020 --> 40:09.860 you kind of feel sore, 40:10.300 --> 40:12.440 and then maybe the third day you're kind of over it. 40:13.040 --> 40:15.580 At my age, it's like you're sore day one, 40:15.780 --> 40:17.960 day two, day three, day four, 40:18.040 --> 40:18.500 and you're pretty like, 40:18.740 --> 40:20.020 am I ever gonna feel good again? 40:20.420 --> 40:21.520 It's just like, dang. 40:22.300 --> 40:23.160 It's like I could do leg day 40:23.160 --> 40:25.120 two or three times a week when you're young, 40:25.500 --> 40:27.820 now it's like I can do it two times a month. 40:27.820 --> 40:29.820 It's like, oh man. 40:30.600 --> 40:31.800 And that's if you don't get injured. 40:32.880 --> 40:33.920 But at the end of the day, 40:33.980 --> 40:35.240 if you wanna stay strong, 40:35.680 --> 40:36.860 if you want those gains, 40:37.440 --> 40:38.700 well guess what, you gotta put in the work. 40:39.400 --> 40:40.200 And when it comes to Christianity, 40:40.520 --> 40:41.940 you wanna be godly, you want rewards, 40:42.200 --> 40:43.120 you wanna gotta be pleased with you, 40:43.400 --> 40:44.120 you gotta put in the work, 40:44.240 --> 40:46.460 and you gotta be willing to face some tribulation, 40:46.660 --> 40:47.940 face some persecution, 40:48.380 --> 40:49.760 face some opposition, 40:50.360 --> 40:51.960 and there's not gonna be this, 40:52.500 --> 40:53.940 your best life now 40:53.940 --> 40:55.700 and getting all the rewards in heaven. 40:57.020 --> 41:00.280 You can choose, well, I just wanna have my pleasure now, 41:00.940 --> 41:03.100 but you know, that's kind of one of the reasons 41:03.100 --> 41:05.820 why I like the fact that our world seems 41:05.820 --> 41:06.560 to be getting worse, 41:06.640 --> 41:08.180 is that maybe less people be deceived 41:08.180 --> 41:10.420 and the thing that they're gonna enjoy now anyways. 41:11.340 --> 41:15.980 Because maybe the facade of just living in this paradise 41:15.980 --> 41:17.780 is being stripped from you, 41:17.980 --> 41:20.260 so you'll quit trying to live in this paradise 41:20.260 --> 41:21.180 because it doesn't exist anyways. 41:22.180 --> 41:23.040 And you just live for God. 41:23.040 --> 41:25.820 You know, it's like, where should I live? 41:26.040 --> 41:27.080 Where are you gonna serve God the best? 41:27.240 --> 41:27.860 That's where you should live. 41:29.140 --> 41:30.460 What should I do with my life? 41:31.740 --> 41:33.760 You should serve God. 41:35.820 --> 41:37.860 Well, what do I do with my retirement? 41:38.760 --> 41:39.840 I don't know, get people saved. 41:40.500 --> 41:40.920 How about that? 41:41.280 --> 41:43.880 How about having an internal inheritance or something? 41:44.620 --> 41:45.720 That kind of a 401k. 41:46.040 --> 41:48.640 Because pretty soon, you're gonna lose it all anyways. 41:49.800 --> 41:51.280 And you don't even know when you're gonna lose it. 41:51.280 --> 41:55.380 Imagine, like, this is just such a reality, 41:55.600 --> 41:58.360 but imagine living your whole life 41:58.360 --> 41:59.620 saving for your retirement. 42:00.280 --> 42:03.040 Like, you started at 18 putting money in your 401k. 42:03.740 --> 42:06.540 I mean, you're just stuffing that 401k 42:06.540 --> 42:09.240 with 10% of your income, which is a little high percentage, 42:09.540 --> 42:17.600 at 18, 19, 20, 30s, you're 40s, you're 50s, you're 60s. 42:17.980 --> 42:19.860 You're like, all right, when I turn 65, 42:20.520 --> 42:22.260 I'm gonna pull out that retirement. 42:22.420 --> 42:23.700 I've been saving up. 42:24.000 --> 42:27.360 I've got $50 million saved up in my 401k. 42:27.680 --> 42:29.900 You turn 65 and you just die. 42:31.340 --> 42:33.580 You have to ask, what was the point of that retirement? 42:33.920 --> 42:36.240 What was the point of all that investment, 42:36.800 --> 42:38.160 all that money put away? 42:38.840 --> 42:39.840 And I mean, what's the chances 42:39.840 --> 42:41.620 of someone dying at 65 or younger? 42:42.280 --> 42:43.560 I mean, how many people just invest 42:43.560 --> 42:45.480 all this money in their 401k 42:45.980 --> 42:48.020 and then they never even take a dime out? 42:48.020 --> 42:48.340 Yeah. 42:49.300 --> 42:51.780 And then, you know, how many people are doing that 42:51.780 --> 42:53.460 and they have 1.7 children 42:54.180 --> 42:57.320 and their 1.7 children becomes some kind of like 42:57.320 --> 42:59.360 transgender, atheist freak. 42:59.560 --> 43:02.660 And then you just saved up $50 million for it and you die. 43:03.520 --> 43:04.480 Congratulations, Boomer. 43:06.300 --> 43:07.640 I mean, like, what was the point in that? 43:08.380 --> 43:10.400 It's like, oh, let's contrast that with a guy 43:10.400 --> 43:12.080 that lives paycheck to paycheck and struggles 43:12.080 --> 43:15.640 and works, you know, overtime and can't really get by. 43:15.880 --> 43:17.520 But he goes soul winning every week 43:17.520 --> 43:19.020 and is getting people saved. 43:19.760 --> 43:22.200 You know, who do you want to be when they die? 43:23.300 --> 43:25.540 I want to be the guy that got somebody saved 43:25.540 --> 43:27.620 that did something for God and stands before God 43:27.620 --> 43:29.220 and it's not all wood, hay and stubble 43:29.220 --> 43:31.180 and just watching it all burn up. 43:31.880 --> 43:35.460 Now look, am I saying don't save for retirement? 43:35.600 --> 43:36.280 No, I'm not saying that. 43:36.760 --> 43:38.680 Am I saying that investing is bad? 43:38.840 --> 43:39.500 No, I'm not saying that. 43:39.760 --> 43:41.620 Am I saying be an idiot with your finances? 43:41.900 --> 43:42.760 No, I'm not saying that. 43:43.140 --> 43:45.420 But what I am saying is that more important 43:45.420 --> 43:47.660 than any of those things is investing 43:47.660 --> 43:51.260 in your spiritual inheritance and your spiritual 401k 43:51.720 --> 43:54.600 and serving God than any of those other things 43:54.600 --> 43:56.240 because they can be taken away for sure. 43:56.820 --> 44:01.300 Moth, rust and thieves, they can ruin all of your investment, 44:01.500 --> 44:02.820 all of your money, all of your net worth 44:02.820 --> 44:04.980 and none of that really is gonna matter 44:04.980 --> 44:05.660 at the end of the day. 44:07.420 --> 44:10.320 It matters but it doesn't matter at the end of the day. 44:10.380 --> 44:12.720 It doesn't matter when we're standing for Christ 44:12.720 --> 44:13.840 at the judgment seat of Christ. 44:14.540 --> 44:16.460 And so we shouldn't be putting that first. 44:16.600 --> 44:18.480 And here's the thing, when you put God first, 44:18.860 --> 44:20.260 those things take care of themselves. 44:20.820 --> 44:23.800 When you put the money first, you end up getting not neither. 44:25.060 --> 44:27.020 And so it's just kind of a fool's errand 44:27.600 --> 44:31.880 to always be striving for the carnal and the pleasure 44:32.440 --> 44:34.440 we should be striving for serving God 44:34.440 --> 44:37.680 and realizing, hey, the tribulations don't scare me 44:37.680 --> 44:39.940 because the worst thing you can do is kill me 44:39.940 --> 44:40.980 and then take me to heaven sooner. 44:43.000 --> 44:44.680 Oh, well, you could lose your money. 44:44.820 --> 44:45.560 I'm gonna lose it anyways. 44:46.800 --> 44:49.220 And if I believe God and if I trust God, 44:49.720 --> 44:53.960 didn't we sing a song about God in Psalm 147, 44:54.320 --> 44:55.740 how he's given food to the ravens? 44:56.600 --> 44:59.020 So God cares enough to give food to birds 44:59.020 --> 45:00.880 but he's not gonna take care of you. 45:02.020 --> 45:03.140 Oh, ye of little faith? 45:04.380 --> 45:07.000 I mean, he's clothing the grass of the field 45:07.000 --> 45:09.180 and he's taking care of birds 45:09.180 --> 45:12.020 and he's taking care of all this stuff going on in the world. 45:12.140 --> 45:13.640 He's putting grass on top of mountains 45:14.140 --> 45:15.320 that no one will even see. 45:16.440 --> 45:17.860 I mean, there's blades of grass 45:17.860 --> 45:19.720 that no one's ever seen that came and went. 45:20.880 --> 45:21.860 But God just did anyways. 45:22.800 --> 45:25.240 I mean, yeah, but you're so scared of serving God. 45:25.960 --> 45:27.660 Like God's like, oh man, here's a guy 45:27.660 --> 45:28.580 that's really serving me. 45:28.860 --> 45:29.980 I don't really care about him. 45:30.180 --> 45:32.880 But here's a bird, let's make sure he's taken care of. 45:33.620 --> 45:34.860 Right? Does that make sense? 45:35.280 --> 45:37.660 Does it make sense that a soul winning Baptist 45:37.660 --> 45:39.220 God doesn't care about, 45:39.500 --> 45:42.340 but he cares about a random bird in the middle of nowhere 45:42.780 --> 45:44.480 on an island that no one's seen 45:45.300 --> 45:46.820 until Charles Darwin comes 45:46.820 --> 45:49.200 and discovers evolution with it or whatever. 45:49.680 --> 45:51.180 The little beaks or whatever. 45:52.800 --> 45:55.000 The little bird that's just standing there 45:55.000 --> 45:56.960 and his mom comes and shoves some worms 45:56.960 --> 45:58.020 down his throat or whatever. 45:58.740 --> 46:01.840 The God cares more about that little baby bird 46:02.220 --> 46:04.160 than he cares about you as a soul winning Baptist. 46:04.480 --> 46:07.340 I mean, that's why Jesus is incredulous. 46:07.340 --> 46:08.880 He's like, oh, he has little faith. 46:09.520 --> 46:10.640 He's like, what the heck? 46:11.800 --> 46:14.760 Like, what's wrong with you to not trust me? 46:15.020 --> 46:16.060 But again, that's how people feel. 46:16.160 --> 46:18.420 People think like, oh, I can't be a Christian. 46:18.560 --> 46:19.800 I can't go to a good church. 46:19.920 --> 46:21.780 I can't serve God because, you know, 46:22.020 --> 46:24.580 I got to worry about, you know, the Democrats. 46:25.400 --> 46:28.280 I got to worry about, look, the Republicans are bad. 46:28.580 --> 46:28.720 Yeah. 46:30.820 --> 46:34.040 I'm like, oh, we're gonna have Muslims in Texas 46:34.040 --> 46:35.640 if the Democrats get in charge. 46:37.020 --> 46:38.440 Why do we have Muslims now? 46:40.880 --> 46:43.220 Well, we could have like mass immigration 46:43.220 --> 46:44.320 if the Democrats get in charge. 46:45.020 --> 46:47.380 What happened in 2020 to 2024? 46:47.840 --> 46:47.980 Yeah. 46:49.180 --> 46:51.720 Then we have like the largest mass immigration ever. 46:52.520 --> 46:54.020 Oh, well that's because Biden. 46:54.320 --> 46:54.760 Well, you know what? 46:54.800 --> 46:57.460 What if Abbott was actually a strong Texas ranger 46:57.460 --> 46:58.520 and just said, hey, I don't care 46:58.520 --> 46:59.540 what the federal government says, 46:59.540 --> 47:01.360 we're gonna stop these people from coming across 47:01.360 --> 47:03.640 the border and they can make me stop. 47:05.640 --> 47:06.900 I bet you Texas would have been like, 47:07.240 --> 47:08.860 amen, let's go, you know? 47:10.540 --> 47:12.520 And force the issue or whatever. 47:12.840 --> 47:14.760 But again, it's just like, they don't care. 47:14.980 --> 47:15.620 They're fake. 47:16.020 --> 47:17.640 And maybe now you just realize 47:17.640 --> 47:18.820 our government's fake anyways. 47:20.000 --> 47:22.220 It's fake and gay on both sides, all right? 47:23.480 --> 47:24.260 Good night. 47:25.680 --> 47:27.780 I have more to say on this, but let's finish this chapter. 47:27.940 --> 47:29.580 The Bible says in verse 14, 47:30.360 --> 47:32.100 for this cause I bow my knees into the father 47:32.100 --> 47:33.060 of our Lord Jesus Christ, 47:33.620 --> 47:35.980 of whom the whole family in heaven and earth his name 47:36.440 --> 47:39.200 that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory 47:39.580 --> 47:41.240 to be strengthened with might 47:41.800 --> 47:44.140 by his spirit and the inner man. 47:44.940 --> 47:47.360 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith 47:47.360 --> 47:49.500 that ye being rooted and grounded in love 47:49.500 --> 47:51.120 may be able to comprehend with all saints 47:51.120 --> 47:53.480 what is the breadth and length and depth and height 47:53.480 --> 47:54.860 and the know the love of Christ 47:54.860 --> 47:57.520 which passeth knowledge that you might be filled 47:57.520 --> 47:59.040 with all the fullness of God. 48:00.120 --> 48:02.780 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly 48:02.780 --> 48:05.400 above all that we ask or think, 48:05.520 --> 48:07.020 according to the power that worketh in us, 48:07.380 --> 48:10.160 unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus 48:10.160 --> 48:12.460 throughout all ages, world without end, amen. 48:12.680 --> 48:16.340 So here we have him saying that we should be rooted 48:16.340 --> 48:17.880 and grounded in love. 48:18.940 --> 48:21.940 And what is the comparison here in verse 18? 48:22.620 --> 48:25.460 That we would understand the breadth, length, depth 48:25.460 --> 48:27.360 and height to know the love of Christ. 48:28.180 --> 48:31.160 Breath is an often word that we would use for width. 48:31.320 --> 48:34.740 We usually use width when we're thinking of a shape 48:34.740 --> 48:36.360 but the Bible uses breadth often. 48:37.180 --> 48:40.560 So we think of the breadth, the length of an object, 48:41.180 --> 48:42.600 the depth of it and the height. 48:42.780 --> 48:44.520 And again, some of this is a little bit overlapping. 48:44.920 --> 48:46.620 Obviously in a three dimensional perspective 48:46.620 --> 48:50.000 you don't necessarily have all four in this context 48:50.000 --> 48:52.620 because depth and height are kind of accomplishing 48:52.620 --> 48:53.260 the same thing. 48:54.240 --> 48:56.420 But if you kind of think about it in the love of Christ 48:57.180 --> 48:58.440 and we think about the width 48:58.440 --> 48:59.960 and there's a lot of ways we could look at this, 49:00.300 --> 49:02.440 you could think of the love of Christ, the width of it, 49:02.800 --> 49:05.100 is it's to everyone, right? 49:05.260 --> 49:07.280 I mean, it really expands to all. 49:07.400 --> 49:09.340 Christ says his arms open to all, 49:09.840 --> 49:12.940 that it's to all nations, that the gospel is wide reaching, 49:13.520 --> 49:15.040 that it's not limited to the Jews, 49:15.600 --> 49:17.480 but what is the breadth of God's love? 49:17.760 --> 49:20.660 It's to all, that he's the savior of all men, 49:20.980 --> 49:22.340 especially those that believe, 49:22.900 --> 49:24.920 that he tasted death for every man. 49:24.920 --> 49:26.980 And so we know the breadth of God's love 49:26.980 --> 49:29.200 is just to everyone, that it reaches all. 49:30.060 --> 49:32.540 The length, how far is God's love? 49:32.700 --> 49:34.480 Well, I would say it's pretty far 49:34.480 --> 49:36.620 considering that he's willing to pay the full price, isn't he? 49:37.180 --> 49:38.300 He's willing to go all the way, 49:38.580 --> 49:39.980 that he was willing to send his son 49:39.980 --> 49:42.400 who was willing to go through all the pain and the agony 49:42.400 --> 49:43.680 all the way up through the cross 49:44.040 --> 49:46.580 and then still submit himself to the will of the Father 49:47.900 --> 49:50.600 to endure the shame, bearing the cross, 49:51.080 --> 49:53.620 to die, to go to hell, to rise again, 49:54.060 --> 49:55.400 that what's the length? 49:55.640 --> 49:56.920 He's willing to go all the way, isn't he? 49:57.780 --> 50:02.620 The depth, again, emphasizing how deeply God cares for us, 50:03.120 --> 50:04.400 you know, encompasses a lot of ideas. 50:04.560 --> 50:06.720 The idea of how much he deeply cares, 50:06.960 --> 50:08.160 he's willing to send his son. 50:08.720 --> 50:10.980 And that's a lot of, that's some deep love there. 50:11.540 --> 50:13.120 And from a Christ perspective, 50:13.260 --> 50:15.280 he's willing to go into the deep himself, 50:15.780 --> 50:17.200 the literal depths of hell 50:17.620 --> 50:19.340 to accomplish our salvation, 50:20.160 --> 50:23.500 death and hell, that's pretty low. 50:23.640 --> 50:25.380 He's willing to condescend to men of low estate 50:25.380 --> 50:26.140 to come to the earth, 50:26.420 --> 50:28.060 but he's willing to go even further down, 50:28.400 --> 50:29.740 he's willing to go to the depths of hell. 50:30.320 --> 50:33.980 So how low will God go for us to the very bottom 50:34.740 --> 50:35.580 to save us? 50:36.000 --> 50:37.660 Not only that, what is the height? 50:38.120 --> 50:40.520 Well, you could think of this as just how high a price 50:40.520 --> 50:41.520 is he willing to sacrifice, 50:41.780 --> 50:42.960 the highest price possible. 50:43.780 --> 50:45.300 For God so loved the world that he gave 50:45.300 --> 50:47.640 his only begotten son. 50:47.640 --> 50:49.980 You can't get any higher of a price, 50:50.120 --> 50:51.160 a higher picture of love 50:51.160 --> 50:53.320 than the sacrifice that God had for us. 50:53.800 --> 50:56.180 And so if we think about what he's saying, 50:56.360 --> 50:58.380 he's saying, hey, we should be rooted and grounded in love 50:59.000 --> 51:00.420 and it's the love that Christ had. 51:00.940 --> 51:02.600 What's the love that Christ had? 51:02.960 --> 51:04.540 Well, it's the love for everyone. 51:05.000 --> 51:07.280 It's the love that's willing to go all the way. 51:07.640 --> 51:09.920 It's the love that's willing to even go down 51:09.920 --> 51:11.140 as far as death and hell. 51:11.560 --> 51:13.900 It's a love that's willing to sacrifice himself 51:13.900 --> 51:14.880 for others. 51:16.040 --> 51:17.880 So what should we be as Christians? 51:18.300 --> 51:19.880 We should be as Christians, one, 51:20.000 --> 51:21.020 that are willing to reach anyone. 51:22.300 --> 51:27.240 Regardless of nationality, creed, race, gender, 51:27.440 --> 51:28.860 we should be willing to reach to all 51:29.480 --> 51:31.460 and we should be willing to go as far 51:31.460 --> 51:34.040 as we can possibly go to get them saved, 51:34.380 --> 51:36.980 that we should be willing to lay down our lives 51:36.980 --> 51:40.800 for the brethren and for the lost to get them saved. 51:42.180 --> 51:45.420 And he's saying, if you think about in verse number 20, 51:46.280 --> 51:48.380 that what God is able to do, God is able to do 51:48.380 --> 51:52.480 exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, 51:52.840 --> 51:53.460 meaning what? 51:54.140 --> 51:56.980 There is nothing you could ask God for 51:57.490 --> 51:59.840 or need help from that he cannot do. 52:00.180 --> 52:03.340 In fact, it's kind of saying that more than you could 52:03.340 --> 52:05.100 even ask for, he would be willing to do. 52:05.720 --> 52:07.700 It's like, what is on the table that God's willing 52:07.700 --> 52:10.020 to do more than you could ever dream of? 52:10.980 --> 52:14.160 So it's like, well, I want to do something big for God. 52:14.280 --> 52:15.600 Well, he wanted to do something even bigger, 52:16.940 --> 52:19.640 but he's gonna always match you because he was willing 52:19.640 --> 52:21.340 to even go further than you were willing to go 52:21.340 --> 52:23.300 and he was willing to give more than you were willing 52:23.300 --> 52:24.980 to give and he was willing to help more 52:24.980 --> 52:26.080 than you needed help for. 52:26.340 --> 52:29.680 God is more abundantly willing to help us 52:29.680 --> 52:32.380 than we could even think, than we could even ask. 52:32.660 --> 52:35.360 Notice it says abundantly above all that we ask 52:35.360 --> 52:37.260 or think according to the power that work within us. 52:37.260 --> 52:39.700 You know what I think this, what does this mean practically? 52:40.740 --> 52:42.480 You know, it makes me think of a movie, 52:42.760 --> 52:44.380 sorry for the crude movie illustration. 52:44.640 --> 52:46.940 You know in Aladdin, maybe you've seen Aladdin, 52:47.080 --> 52:48.820 I don't know Aladdin is a movie where this guy's 52:48.820 --> 52:50.820 got a genie and he grants wishes for him. 52:51.260 --> 52:53.840 But in one scene Aladdin is chained 52:53.840 --> 52:57.420 and he's like falls in the ocean and he's gonna die 52:58.300 --> 53:00.900 and he can't really ask for help. 53:01.440 --> 53:04.160 But the genie's just kind of like, do you need help? 53:04.780 --> 53:06.760 And just because he's like nods his head slightly, 53:06.760 --> 53:08.360 he just brings him out of the ocean 53:08.360 --> 53:09.480 and saves his life or whatever. 53:09.980 --> 53:12.280 And it's just kind of like he's going above probably 53:12.280 --> 53:13.680 what he's even really asking for. 53:14.200 --> 53:17.540 And how I see this is, hey I asked God for help 53:17.540 --> 53:19.900 and God's gonna help me more than I even asked for. 53:21.280 --> 53:24.480 God's gonna do things for me that I didn't even think 53:24.480 --> 53:26.460 he's gonna go beyond what I even wanted or needed. 53:27.040 --> 53:28.800 It's kind of like what the Bible says that, 53:29.060 --> 53:30.540 hey if your brother asked to go a mile 53:30.540 --> 53:31.460 you go with him twain. 53:31.920 --> 53:33.520 Isn't that going above what you ask 53:34.000 --> 53:35.280 and above what you even thought? 53:35.780 --> 53:37.760 Like I was hoping you would go a mile with me. 53:38.100 --> 53:39.480 That was what I was gonna ask for. 53:39.700 --> 53:40.920 But he's like I'm gonna go twain. 53:41.040 --> 53:42.540 You're like wow that's abundantly above 53:42.940 --> 53:45.400 even that I thought and even that I asked 53:45.400 --> 53:46.500 you're gonna do more. 53:46.820 --> 53:47.620 You know the apostle Paul's like 53:47.620 --> 53:48.900 I hope to get some Gentiles saved. 53:49.100 --> 53:50.720 It's like bro you're gonna turn the whole world upside 53:50.720 --> 53:51.380 down with the gospel. 53:51.780 --> 53:53.500 You're gonna do more than you even thought 53:53.500 --> 53:54.880 and more than you even asked for. 53:55.160 --> 53:57.060 And God is able to do such a thing. 53:57.360 --> 54:00.740 And look if God is able to do exceedingly, 54:01.900 --> 54:04.820 abundantly above all that we ask or think 54:04.820 --> 54:06.660 according to the power that work within us 54:07.120 --> 54:10.180 then why are we afraid of serving God? 54:11.440 --> 54:13.480 We shouldn't be afraid of serving God 54:13.480 --> 54:16.220 when he says he's gonna go above and beyond to help us. 54:16.440 --> 54:18.280 And notice this, these are key words 54:18.280 --> 54:19.120 that we should understand. 54:19.740 --> 54:21.560 It says unto him be glory in the church 54:21.560 --> 54:24.780 by Christ Jesus throughout all ages. 54:25.580 --> 54:27.140 This is not first century. 54:27.840 --> 54:29.060 This is not second century. 54:29.400 --> 54:30.460 This is every century. 54:30.980 --> 54:33.100 This is 2026 America 54:33.720 --> 54:35.500 that we should be giving glory to Christ 54:35.500 --> 54:37.820 and that he's gonna be doing effectual works 54:37.820 --> 54:39.560 in this church right now. 54:39.940 --> 54:42.200 It does not matter what the world is doing 54:42.200 --> 54:43.140 because you know what? 54:43.340 --> 54:44.480 God still seated on the throne 54:44.480 --> 54:46.540 and God still wants to get people saved 54:46.540 --> 54:47.400 more than ever before. 54:47.820 --> 54:49.740 And we have more people on this planet 54:49.740 --> 54:51.020 to get saved than ever before. 54:51.400 --> 54:53.300 There's more work to do than ever before. 54:53.720 --> 54:55.180 And so the last thing we should do 54:55.180 --> 54:58.280 is to cower and to hide and to be in fear 54:58.280 --> 55:00.060 and to withdraw from the world. 55:00.060 --> 55:03.840 No, we should be going even more for the things of God 55:03.840 --> 55:05.860 and trying to get more people saved 55:05.860 --> 55:08.860 and do more works and preach more powerful sermons 55:08.860 --> 55:11.640 and shine even brighter than ever before. 55:12.960 --> 55:14.160 Nuts to what the world's doing. 55:14.240 --> 55:15.360 The world's gonna keep getting darker 55:15.360 --> 55:16.360 but we can keep getting brighter. 55:19.300 --> 55:20.700 I wanna go to John 17. 55:21.440 --> 55:22.620 And you know, there's been a lot of focus 55:23.140 --> 55:25.500 especially last night and online about Texas. 55:26.420 --> 55:28.780 And I just wanna, I wanna talk about that for a moment 55:28.780 --> 55:29.940 and I have been a little bit 55:30.340 --> 55:31.400 but I wanna talk about it more. 55:33.700 --> 55:35.160 And here's the thing. 55:36.080 --> 55:37.260 Some people are just like, 55:37.640 --> 55:40.020 oh, you know, Texas is bad now 55:40.020 --> 55:42.660 and Texas is blue now and all these kinds of things. 55:43.200 --> 55:44.960 And it's like, okay, sure. 55:45.620 --> 55:48.060 But let's talk about some other things that happened. 55:48.580 --> 55:49.760 Let's just talk about a few other things 55:49.760 --> 55:51.220 that happened last night. 55:53.000 --> 55:55.440 Alabama elected an open tranny 55:56.780 --> 55:58.220 to the House of Representatives. 55:59.540 --> 56:02.840 We have a man pretending to be a woman 56:03.460 --> 56:04.840 and they, Alabama. 56:05.700 --> 56:07.900 I know they act like, oh, Texas has fallen. 56:08.220 --> 56:10.840 Let's run off to all these other Bible Belt states. 56:11.700 --> 56:12.420 They're safer. 56:12.540 --> 56:13.620 Let's go to these smaller states 56:13.620 --> 56:16.100 where they're electing open trannies. 56:18.060 --> 56:19.620 It got 53% of the vote 56:20.360 --> 56:23.860 which accumulated to approximately 12,456 votes. 56:23.860 --> 56:28.740 12,000 people voted for a tranny, a faggot. 56:29.520 --> 56:33.880 Not only that, the same state elected Brett Jones 56:34.370 --> 56:38.380 and openly game in as the county sheriff. 56:41.080 --> 56:44.140 I mean, you think that we've got this persecution. 56:44.440 --> 56:48.280 Can you imagine if our sheriff was a faggot open faggot? 56:50.600 --> 56:51.600 And let me tell you something. 56:52.160 --> 56:54.020 God forbid Texas has ever do such a thing 56:54.020 --> 56:57.540 but I'm not changing my preaching for some faggot sheriff. 56:59.080 --> 57:01.820 Boy, you think that persecution or tribulation 57:02.440 --> 57:04.820 we've experienced, you don't even know what could happen. 57:05.760 --> 57:08.820 Oh, well, that's somewhere where it's Democrat. 57:08.980 --> 57:10.140 That's Alabama, man. 57:11.680 --> 57:14.060 There's no safe place to run to, folks. 57:15.280 --> 57:17.860 You know, the Bible doesn't say run to the safe place 57:17.860 --> 57:19.820 and try to serve God quietly there. 57:20.380 --> 57:21.440 That doesn't even exist. 57:22.240 --> 57:23.360 That's a misnomer 57:23.360 --> 57:25.700 and there's never really been that kind of a place. 57:26.240 --> 57:27.760 God's people have always been persecuted. 57:28.240 --> 57:30.780 God's people have always been harassed. 57:30.920 --> 57:34.040 Now look, when you and your whole church 57:34.040 --> 57:35.920 are gonna be just murdered and killed 57:35.920 --> 57:37.980 and you just run to another town 57:37.980 --> 57:40.040 or you run to another country, I get it. 57:40.520 --> 57:42.440 I mean, obviously America exists for a reason. 57:42.860 --> 57:44.380 Why, because the Roman Catholic Church 57:44.380 --> 57:46.940 just didn't even really allow people 57:46.940 --> 57:48.580 to even serve God in any capacity 57:48.580 --> 57:50.360 so they're just fleeing just to live. 57:51.120 --> 57:55.120 But when you can still live and eat and drink and do stuff, 57:55.480 --> 57:57.700 hey, I don't think that you necessarily need 57:57.700 --> 57:58.380 to be on the run. 57:59.400 --> 58:01.040 And what does the Bible say in John 17? 58:01.200 --> 58:01.800 Look at verse 14. 58:02.560 --> 58:05.120 I have given them my word and the world has hated them 58:05.120 --> 58:07.060 because they are not of the world 58:07.520 --> 58:08.860 even as I am not of the world. 58:08.940 --> 58:10.900 Notice this, why do people hate us 58:11.400 --> 58:12.740 because God gave us his word? 58:14.820 --> 58:17.520 God gave us his word and people hate God's word. 58:17.980 --> 58:20.320 I pray, verse 17, I pray not 58:20.320 --> 58:22.640 that thou shouldest take them out of the world 58:23.160 --> 58:25.560 but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 58:26.440 --> 58:28.920 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 58:29.340 --> 58:31.260 Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth, 58:31.560 --> 58:33.380 as thou sent me into the world 58:33.380 --> 58:36.940 even so have I also sent them into the world. 58:37.040 --> 58:38.320 So what is the Bible's teaching? 58:38.960 --> 58:42.580 Not that we should go find ourselves in a commune 58:42.580 --> 58:44.100 and go run off and hide, 58:44.580 --> 58:46.180 rather we should go into the world 58:46.180 --> 58:47.960 and be a light under the Gentiles, 58:48.080 --> 58:50.300 be a light under the world to get people saved 58:50.300 --> 58:53.220 and we pray that God will keep us from the evil. 58:54.320 --> 58:57.880 I'm not saying that, hey, I'm not saying like, 58:58.060 --> 59:00.920 oh, this guy's gonna kill me if I go talk to him, 59:01.080 --> 59:02.080 let's go talk to him. 59:02.460 --> 59:04.860 I'm not saying, you know, 2027, 59:05.380 --> 59:07.400 our mission is tripped to North Korea, who's going? 59:08.840 --> 59:11.080 Okay, but at the same time 59:11.500 --> 59:13.280 we shouldn't just be hiding completely either. 59:13.900 --> 59:16.200 I'm not saying abandon all common sense. 59:16.720 --> 59:19.380 I'm not saying ignore danger. 59:20.080 --> 59:21.860 Hey, we can pray that God will keep us from the evil, 59:22.160 --> 59:22.660 but you know what? 59:23.060 --> 59:25.460 We should still be in the world preaching the gospel. 59:25.880 --> 59:26.720 Hey, you know what, praise God, 59:27.340 --> 59:29.300 even as bad as things are getting 59:29.300 --> 59:31.380 and as bad as people wanna make things out to be, 59:31.660 --> 59:33.460 you can still homeschool your children, 59:33.900 --> 59:35.480 you can still teach them all the word of God, 59:35.880 --> 59:37.200 you can still go get a job, 59:37.460 --> 59:38.760 you can still pay your bills, 59:39.040 --> 59:40.740 you can still go to church three times a week. 59:41.040 --> 59:42.540 Like, how is it that bad? 59:42.540 --> 59:45.060 I mean, show me a generation in times past 59:45.060 --> 59:46.400 that had it as hard as you. 59:48.160 --> 59:50.740 Show me the Christians in Europe having as hard as you. 59:50.940 --> 59:52.940 Show me the pioneers having it as hard as you, 59:52.980 --> 59:53.640 even in America. 59:54.660 --> 59:56.600 You know, it's like, it's not even that bad. 59:57.280 --> 59:58.640 And people are already freaking out. 59:58.740 --> 01:00:00.120 It's like, how are you gonna do 01:00:00.120 --> 01:00:02.640 when there's actual real persecution and real tribulation 01:00:02.640 --> 01:00:04.680 and you have a faggot sheriff or whatever? 01:00:06.780 --> 01:00:09.800 Oh, I can't wait to leave and go get a faggot sheriff. 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:15.440 The state of Georgia elected Keisha Bottoms, 01:00:15.980 --> 01:00:17.400 the first black woman. 01:00:17.720 --> 01:00:19.100 It was the first woman governor 01:00:19.100 --> 01:00:21.380 and the first black governor, I think, 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.460 the first woman black, which is like so many firsts. 01:00:25.940 --> 01:00:26.900 Look, this is a curse 01:00:26.900 --> 01:00:29.760 when you're bringing in women to rule over you. 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:31.860 In fact, I looked it up, 01:00:34.180 --> 01:00:37.600 17 of the governors of the United States are women. 01:00:37.600 --> 01:00:38.920 Wow, wow. 01:00:39.380 --> 01:00:40.820 Three of them are Republican. 01:00:41.640 --> 01:00:42.720 This is a joke. 01:00:45.180 --> 01:00:47.920 In America, before this election, 01:00:48.060 --> 01:00:50.660 24 of the governors were Democrat, 26 are Republican. 01:00:51.140 --> 01:00:53.560 Now we have at least 28 confirmed Democrat governors. 01:00:55.020 --> 01:00:57.520 And look, some of these Republicans, again, are women. 01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:58.100 Yeah. 01:00:59.580 --> 01:01:02.240 Now, again, it's silly to think that 01:01:02.240 --> 01:01:05.720 the entire United States is gonna be given over to Satan 01:01:05.720 --> 01:01:07.560 and you're gonna go hide in the woods and be fine. 01:01:08.500 --> 01:01:09.660 Okay, that's just not how it works. 01:01:09.940 --> 01:01:10.940 In fact, in the book of Jeremiah, 01:01:11.640 --> 01:01:14.280 there is a guy that runs off into Egypt to try and hide 01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:16.600 and he's the one that's drug out and killed 01:01:16.600 --> 01:01:18.660 and Jeremiah is the one that survives 01:01:19.040 --> 01:01:20.080 and makes it the end. 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:22.640 So, you know, running and hiding 01:01:22.640 --> 01:01:23.760 is never the right option. 01:01:25.120 --> 01:01:27.260 Go to 2 Timothy 2, go to 2 Timothy 3. 01:01:27.560 --> 01:01:29.560 If God is able to do exceeding 01:01:29.560 --> 01:01:31.320 and abundantly above all that we ask or think, 01:01:31.620 --> 01:01:33.020 why would we run and hide? 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:36.640 The children of Israel live in Goshen, 01:01:36.740 --> 01:01:38.760 while Egypt is experiencing plagues, 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:41.420 is experiencing some of the craziest stuff 01:01:41.420 --> 01:01:42.080 that's ever happening. 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:44.280 I guarantee there's a lot of temptation to run away, 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:44.760 but you know what? 01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:46.980 You stay in the fight, you stay with the group, 01:01:47.380 --> 01:01:48.840 you stay serving God. 01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:51.720 And look, what is your recommendation, Pastor Shelley? 01:01:52.580 --> 01:01:54.480 Live where there's a good church and you can serve God. 01:01:55.040 --> 01:01:57.100 And I'll tell you this, I would rather live 01:01:57.660 --> 01:02:01.460 in the most democratic, evil state and country 01:02:02.160 --> 01:02:05.100 that has a great church than live in Alabama 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:07.640 with some Zionist do nothing church 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:09.660 that I'm not gonna really serve God with. 01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:11.400 Because you know what? 01:02:11.540 --> 01:02:13.680 It's better to be serving God somewhere 01:02:14.240 --> 01:02:17.320 and doing right than just living it up 01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:18.900 on your little farm or whatever 01:02:19.820 --> 01:02:22.980 that Monsanto will eventually sue you in takeaway anyways. 01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:26.880 Yeah, you could go start a farm 01:02:27.460 --> 01:02:28.760 and you know what Monsanto will do? 01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:30.900 It'll buy the land next to your farm. 01:02:31.620 --> 01:02:35.700 And then their seeds will blow into your farm 01:02:35.700 --> 01:02:38.000 because of wind and you will not be able to get them out. 01:02:38.340 --> 01:02:40.560 And then your next crop will come up 01:02:40.560 --> 01:02:44.340 and they'll send some little guy with a clipboard 01:02:44.340 --> 01:02:47.160 to come do soil samples on your farmland. 01:02:47.700 --> 01:02:49.960 And they'll notice, oh Monsanto's seeds 01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:53.640 are in your farmland, you have these crops, 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:55.040 they're not legally yours. 01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:56.780 And so they'll sue you into oblivion 01:02:56.780 --> 01:02:57.800 or just sell us your farm 01:02:57.800 --> 01:02:58.600 and you just have to sell the farm. 01:03:00.740 --> 01:03:03.540 You're like, well, okay, then I'll buy all the farmland 01:03:03.540 --> 01:03:06.480 around myself to protect myself, a moat of farmland. 01:03:06.940 --> 01:03:07.700 But guess what? 01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:09.260 Then Monsanto will buy the farmland around that 01:03:09.780 --> 01:03:10.960 and it'll do the same thing 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:12.140 and eventually it'll just be taken. 01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:15.440 Like you can't outsmart the Jew 01:03:16.040 --> 01:03:18.160 because he's evil and deceptive 01:03:18.160 --> 01:03:20.440 and he's just gonna take what he wants. 01:03:21.020 --> 01:03:22.460 And he doesn't play by the rules. 01:03:22.820 --> 01:03:24.380 Lawyers don't play by the rules. 01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:28.160 You think you can just go hide somewhere 01:03:28.160 --> 01:03:30.460 and they can't get you, it's just a lie. 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:35.040 Ohio elected Amy Acton as their governor, 01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:36.500 another woman governor. 01:03:38.700 --> 01:03:41.160 Michigan elected Abdul El Said. 01:03:42.260 --> 01:03:44.960 Give you a couple guesses on what religion he is. 01:03:47.680 --> 01:03:49.140 Where are you gonna go? 01:03:51.340 --> 01:03:52.880 And you know, it's so funny, 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:56.180 like the one true church, the Roman Catholic Church, 01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:58.820 you know, 50% of Catholics vote for Democrats. 01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:02.780 Here's the thing. 01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:05.320 They always talk about how we're unified 01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:06.760 and we're the one church 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:09.100 and you know, we have this binding authority. 01:04:09.420 --> 01:04:12.800 Why is it that they're exactly split on voting? 01:04:15.120 --> 01:04:17.960 And look, I'm not saying that 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:19.580 we should vote for Republicans necessarily, 01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:25.240 but voting for Democrats is satanic at this point. 01:04:25.540 --> 01:04:27.740 And I think in times past, you know, 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:29.040 you could have some Christians 01:04:29.040 --> 01:04:30.980 that like some of the Democrat policies 01:04:30.980 --> 01:04:33.460 or maybe they had a little bit of nuance here. 01:04:33.700 --> 01:04:36.200 But in 2026 America, voting for the Democrats 01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:37.160 is just voting for Satan. 01:04:38.720 --> 01:04:41.440 How is 50% of your church voting for Satan? 01:04:41.860 --> 01:04:43.880 And then you're the one true church. 01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.940 Where's your normative binding authority 01:04:46.940 --> 01:04:48.540 to correct all these Catholics 01:04:48.540 --> 01:04:50.060 for being so evil and wicked 01:04:50.540 --> 01:04:52.080 that they're voting in this nonsense? 01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:54.820 I mean, one of Roman Catholicism's points 01:04:54.820 --> 01:04:55.860 is they're against abortion, 01:04:56.300 --> 01:04:58.320 yet that's like one of the main talking points 01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:00.740 for Democrats is being for abortion. 01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:04.580 And 50%, I mean, if 100% of Catholics 01:05:04.580 --> 01:05:05.820 were all voting Republicans, 01:05:06.200 --> 01:05:07.400 Democrats probably never win. 01:05:08.200 --> 01:05:10.000 But we have this huge divide. 01:05:10.540 --> 01:05:11.460 Why? Because guess what? 01:05:11.700 --> 01:05:13.360 The Roman Catholic Church is a fake church 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:14.940 filled with unsaved people. 01:05:17.660 --> 01:05:20.560 I asked AI, I said, 01:05:21.980 --> 01:05:24.140 what is the lowest rate, 01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:25.220 like of religions, 01:05:25.460 --> 01:05:27.400 what would be the lowest rate voting for Democrat? 01:05:27.780 --> 01:05:29.860 And it told me it was the independent funnel of abdice. 01:05:31.720 --> 01:05:32.780 Isn't that interesting? 01:05:33.520 --> 01:05:34.600 The independent funnel of abdice 01:05:34.600 --> 01:05:36.280 are the least likely to vote Democrat. 01:05:36.860 --> 01:05:39.940 And then you have the Roman Catholics at 50%. 01:05:41.520 --> 01:05:42.960 I wonder who's the true church? 01:05:43.180 --> 01:05:43.500 I know. 01:05:44.560 --> 01:05:46.580 I know it's one I would go to. 01:05:46.580 --> 01:05:49.040 And again, like, I don't even know, 01:05:49.180 --> 01:05:51.260 I don't know what the exact percentage of the IFB is, 01:05:51.560 --> 01:05:54.240 but apart from just some like missionary black churches 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:55.180 being thrown in there, 01:05:55.420 --> 01:05:58.620 it's probably virtually like 0% of IFBs 01:05:58.620 --> 01:06:01.000 are voting Democrat, okay? 01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:03.360 Probably almost 0%. 01:06:04.260 --> 01:06:05.820 And it's like, I wonder who's right. 01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:06.800 I wonder who's of God. 01:06:07.580 --> 01:06:09.360 How about the people that would never vote for Satan? 01:06:11.460 --> 01:06:13.340 Look at Second Timothy chapter two, verse seven, 01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:15.000 the Bible says, consider what I say 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.540 and the Lord give the understanding and all things. 01:06:16.640 --> 01:06:18.560 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seat of David 01:06:18.560 --> 01:06:20.720 was raised from the dead according to my gospel, 01:06:20.860 --> 01:06:22.340 wearing myself for trouble as an evildoer, 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:22.980 even under bonds. 01:06:23.600 --> 01:06:24.920 But the word of God is not bound. 01:06:25.260 --> 01:06:27.400 Therefore I endure all things for the elect sakes 01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:29.340 that they may also obtain the salvation 01:06:29.340 --> 01:06:30.660 which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:33.180 Why am I painting this picture? 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:34.420 Because you know what? 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:35.400 I don't know what's gonna happen. 01:06:35.780 --> 01:06:36.320 But you know what? 01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:38.320 If I lived in Alabama and I had a great church, 01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:40.460 I'm not gonna leave just because there's a faggot sheriff. 01:06:41.080 --> 01:06:43.880 I'm not gonna leave just because we're voting in trainees. 01:06:44.540 --> 01:06:46.740 If I'm in Ohio, if I'm in these states, 01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:48.820 like I'm not gonna leave because of the politics. 01:06:49.160 --> 01:06:51.140 I'm not gonna leave because of these bad governors 01:06:51.140 --> 01:06:53.560 because frankly speaking, it's a fool's errand. 01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:55.980 Wherever you go in America, it's screwed up. 01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:00.780 There's like one politician that I had any respect for 01:07:00.780 --> 01:07:03.440 was Thomas Massey and he got primaried 01:07:04.120 --> 01:07:07.080 because he won't support the synagogue of Satan Israel. 01:07:08.380 --> 01:07:10.620 But you know, am I gonna move to Kentucky 01:07:10.620 --> 01:07:11.820 just for Thomas Massey? 01:07:11.820 --> 01:07:14.020 Look, I've driven through Kentucky recently 01:07:14.020 --> 01:07:16.040 and you know what I saw in all these little tiny towns? 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:18.980 Mosques, believe it or not. 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:22.120 People are like, oh, Texas is becoming Muslim. 01:07:22.580 --> 01:07:23.320 That's everywhere! 01:07:26.520 --> 01:07:28.840 Oh well, America's getting better. 01:07:28.980 --> 01:07:29.560 How about Europe? 01:07:31.720 --> 01:07:33.020 Where are you gonna go, my friend? 01:07:33.200 --> 01:07:34.740 Look, the world is getting worse. 01:07:34.900 --> 01:07:35.840 The world is waxing worse. 01:07:36.040 --> 01:07:36.100 Why? 01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:37.720 Because Christians won't be Christians 01:07:37.720 --> 01:07:39.940 and Christians won't actually have a backbone 01:07:39.940 --> 01:07:41.920 and Christians won't preach what the Bible says 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:43.440 and they won't just stand up 01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:44.800 and they won't endure hardness 01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:46.740 and they're afraid of being persecuted. 01:07:47.060 --> 01:07:48.340 But you know what the apostle Paul says? 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:51.080 Hey, I'm willing to go even under bonds here. 01:07:51.420 --> 01:07:52.740 I'm gonna preach the gospel 01:07:52.740 --> 01:07:54.120 and I'm gonna suffer affliction 01:07:54.120 --> 01:07:55.340 and I'm gonna preach what's right. 01:07:55.660 --> 01:07:56.020 And you know what? 01:07:56.080 --> 01:07:57.840 We need Christians to have a backbone again 01:07:57.840 --> 01:07:59.220 and preach the word of God 01:07:59.220 --> 01:08:01.340 and to endure all things for the elect's sake. 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:04.560 And instead of going hiding and just running off 01:08:04.560 --> 01:08:06.980 in the woods and starting your little family farm 01:08:06.980 --> 01:08:07.920 or whatever you wanna do, 01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:10.360 you need to stick and fight with God's people. 01:08:12.300 --> 01:08:13.780 And look, I get the temptation, 01:08:14.420 --> 01:08:16.360 but at the end of the day, we should fight. 01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:17.420 That's what we're called to do. 01:08:17.480 --> 01:08:18.880 We should earnestly contend for the faith. 01:08:19.400 --> 01:08:21.120 And if we look a little ahead in Ephesians, 01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:23.140 what does the Bible say in chapter six? 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:25.360 It says in verse number 10, 01:08:25.820 --> 01:08:27.860 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord 01:08:27.860 --> 01:08:29.480 and in the power of his might 01:08:29.480 --> 01:08:31.180 put on the whole armor of God 01:08:31.180 --> 01:08:32.480 that you may be able to stand 01:08:32.480 --> 01:08:34.080 against the wiles of the devil 01:08:34.080 --> 01:08:36.480 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:38.860 but against principalities, against powers, 01:08:39.020 --> 01:08:41.200 against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:44.100 against spiritual wickedness and high places. 01:08:44.700 --> 01:08:45.560 What does he say? 01:08:45.860 --> 01:08:47.960 Hey, we're supposed to wrestle with these Democrats. 01:08:48.380 --> 01:08:50.200 We're supposed to wrestle with these women governors. 01:08:50.540 --> 01:08:52.700 We're supposed to wrestle with all these wicked Jews 01:08:52.700 --> 01:08:54.720 and positions of power and authority. 01:08:55.020 --> 01:08:57.820 We're not supposed to run away and hide and tower. 01:08:58.240 --> 01:09:00.060 No, we're supposed to rest in the power of his might. 01:09:00.280 --> 01:09:02.200 We're supposed to put on the whole armor of God. 01:09:02.460 --> 01:09:04.280 We're supposed to put on the helmet of salvation. 01:09:04.280 --> 01:09:06.300 We're supposed to take the sword of the spirit 01:09:06.300 --> 01:09:07.400 which is the word of God. 01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:09.420 We're supposed to actually take them to task 01:09:09.420 --> 01:09:11.540 and preach the word of God and get people saved 01:09:11.540 --> 01:09:12.960 not to sit around and do nothing. 01:09:13.500 --> 01:09:15.380 Oh, well, I'm just gonna move somewhere 01:09:15.380 --> 01:09:16.400 where there's good politics. 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:17.780 Well, when was that? 01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:22.080 Is the Bible saying move to the place 01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:24.160 where there's not spiritual wickedness and high places? 01:09:24.620 --> 01:09:25.480 Show me that. 01:09:26.380 --> 01:09:27.640 Show me that century. 01:09:28.160 --> 01:09:29.380 Show me that area. 01:09:29.820 --> 01:09:30.760 Cause let me tell you something. 01:09:31.280 --> 01:09:33.480 The devil rises to the top in these areas. 01:09:33.480 --> 01:09:35.800 I mean, it's the ruler, the prince of the power of the air. 01:09:36.240 --> 01:09:37.580 He's the one ruling over this. 01:09:37.640 --> 01:09:39.280 The rulers of the darkness of this world. 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:40.580 What is that? 01:09:41.040 --> 01:09:42.820 Oh, no, I wanna find the place where it's light. 01:09:44.180 --> 01:09:45.320 That doesn't exist. 01:09:46.120 --> 01:09:47.100 They're all corrupt. 01:09:47.240 --> 01:09:47.880 They're all wicked. 01:09:48.040 --> 01:09:48.720 They're all evil. 01:09:49.240 --> 01:09:50.280 They're all in it for money. 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:53.480 They're virtually all satanic. 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:57.060 And I'm not saying that it's 100%, 01:09:57.060 --> 01:09:58.880 it's just like 99.9, okay? 01:09:59.660 --> 01:10:01.540 So someone's gonna find somebody and be like, 01:10:01.540 --> 01:10:02.660 why like this guy? 01:10:02.860 --> 01:10:04.600 Okay, Ron Paul, go for it, right? 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:06.060 But did Ron Paul win? 01:10:06.740 --> 01:10:09.300 Did Ron Paul get positions of authority? 01:10:09.760 --> 01:10:11.640 Or did he get voted out and primaried 01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:13.760 and probably cheated and defrauded and pushed aside 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:14.980 and didn't get his time to air? 01:10:15.260 --> 01:10:15.460 Why? 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:17.120 Because the rulers of the darkness of this world 01:10:17.120 --> 01:10:19.160 don't want a good person in position of authority. 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:22.840 And if you are someone that threatens them, 01:10:23.140 --> 01:10:24.800 they'll just Charlie Kirk you real fast. 01:10:25.340 --> 01:10:27.460 They'll just JFK you real fast. 01:10:27.940 --> 01:10:30.380 They'll just building seven you in seven seconds flat. 01:10:33.120 --> 01:10:35.780 And if you don't believe that, you're gollible and naive. 01:10:37.740 --> 01:10:39.400 Only the gollible and naive think, 01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:42.080 oh, we should have Pastor Anderson run for president. 01:10:42.420 --> 01:10:43.760 What, so he can just die real quick? 01:10:46.160 --> 01:10:47.200 And again, it's not like 01:10:47.200 --> 01:10:49.020 he's gonna get the popular vote anyways, all right? 01:10:49.140 --> 01:10:50.320 Let's just be honest, okay? 01:10:51.780 --> 01:10:54.800 But even if, you know, they're not gonna let that stand. 01:10:55.320 --> 01:10:56.360 They're not gonna let that take over. 01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:57.680 I mean, they're willing to kill, 01:10:57.800 --> 01:10:59.600 you know, millions of people through war. 01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:01.100 They're gonna kill thousands of people 01:11:01.100 --> 01:11:03.360 through false flag events like 9-11. 01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:05.660 They're gonna assassinate people left and right, 01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:08.220 but they wouldn't touch a fundamental Baptist running 01:11:08.220 --> 01:11:09.940 for president or running for a position of authority. 01:11:10.080 --> 01:11:11.020 You're kidding yourself. 01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:14.600 Because what if they have to lose everything? 01:11:15.080 --> 01:11:17.760 They're not gonna let the Epstein files come out. 01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:20.200 They're not gonna let their hand be exposed. 01:11:20.600 --> 01:11:22.820 They're not gonna, I mean, they've already killed. 01:11:23.500 --> 01:11:25.540 They're gonna kill you before they let you 01:11:25.540 --> 01:11:27.060 just show their hand, 01:11:27.220 --> 01:11:28.820 before they let you expose their files 01:11:28.820 --> 01:11:30.140 or something like that, it's nonsense. 01:11:30.820 --> 01:11:33.240 So instead of just going down a rabbit trail 01:11:33.240 --> 01:11:35.240 of trying to expose all the evil in this world, 01:11:35.400 --> 01:11:36.840 why don't you just go out and preach the gospel? 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:37.520 Because you know, that's what, 01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:39.000 you can actually make an impact in this world. 01:11:39.460 --> 01:11:42.600 You can go to a good church, you can homeschool your kids, 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:45.080 you can preach the gospel, and you know what? 01:11:45.380 --> 01:11:47.180 You can just do right. 01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:48.260 Bless the brethren. 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:50.220 And you can make a huge impact. 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:53.220 No, no, no, I'm gonna vote for the lesser of two evils. 01:11:54.420 --> 01:11:55.380 What is that gonna accomplish? 01:11:55.860 --> 01:11:57.520 I'm gonna go out and hand flyers 01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:01.200 for the next Zionist Republican that's probably gay 01:12:02.320 --> 01:12:03.620 to see if we can get, 01:12:03.700 --> 01:12:05.240 see if we can get him voted in Texas 01:12:05.240 --> 01:12:06.380 because I wanna preserve Texas. 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:07.840 You know, that's not gonna preserve Texas. 01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:09.200 You know, preserve Texas is getting people saved 01:12:09.820 --> 01:12:10.700 and preaching the truth 01:12:10.700 --> 01:12:11.520 and preaching the Bible 01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:12.960 and being unapologetic about it. 01:12:13.360 --> 01:12:17.340 And for too long, we've allowed accusations of racism 01:12:17.340 --> 01:12:18.920 and other stuff to prevent us 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:20.160 from preaching against false religion. 01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:23.980 I'm not a racist person, 01:12:23.980 --> 01:12:25.680 but I'm just gonna be honest with you, 01:12:25.740 --> 01:12:27.740 we've imported a lot of minorities 01:12:27.740 --> 01:12:29.840 and it's not the skin color that's the problem, 01:12:29.980 --> 01:12:30.580 it's the religion, 01:12:31.020 --> 01:12:32.320 but they're so tightly coupled 01:12:32.320 --> 01:12:34.580 that people use this excuse of racism 01:12:34.580 --> 01:12:36.100 to stop you from preaching the truth. 01:12:37.740 --> 01:12:38.280 And you know what? 01:12:38.380 --> 01:12:40.580 The demographic change in America is a huge problem 01:12:40.580 --> 01:12:42.380 because of the religious changes bring with it. 01:12:43.480 --> 01:12:45.900 And for too long, we've just allowed ourselves to just, 01:12:46.480 --> 01:12:48.140 oh, I'm just afraid of offending anybody 01:12:48.140 --> 01:12:48.860 or being persecuted. 01:12:49.280 --> 01:12:50.100 Well, nuts to that. 01:12:50.980 --> 01:12:51.400 You know what? 01:12:51.580 --> 01:12:53.180 Safety's gonna come from saying what's right. 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:55.900 You know, what if I never preached on fags or trannies? 01:12:56.120 --> 01:12:57.220 Is that gonna make the church safe? 01:12:58.220 --> 01:13:00.560 Well, we won't get protested, 01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:02.580 but then you'll have fags and trannies in the church. 01:13:02.820 --> 01:13:04.060 So you have to choose your safety. 01:13:04.380 --> 01:13:06.580 Do you wanna be protested and hated of this world 01:13:06.580 --> 01:13:07.920 but then be safe inside? 01:13:08.400 --> 01:13:10.440 Or do you want all the danger to come inside 01:13:10.440 --> 01:13:12.840 but no one outside's criticizing you about it? 01:13:14.200 --> 01:13:16.800 I was like, oh, it's okay that the kids get molested 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:17.880 as long as no one criticized me, 01:13:17.940 --> 01:13:18.540 but here's the thing, 01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:21.340 you let the fags in and then they molest the kids 01:13:21.340 --> 01:13:22.840 and then they'll criticize you anyways 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:25.360 for letting the fags in and then molesting the kids. 01:13:26.360 --> 01:13:29.400 So you might as well just go ahead and say nuts to you. 01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:30.780 I don't care what the world thinks. 01:13:31.140 --> 01:13:31.980 I hate you. 01:13:32.200 --> 01:13:32.880 You're wicked. 01:13:33.280 --> 01:13:33.900 You're of Satan. 01:13:34.320 --> 01:13:34.740 And guess what? 01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:36.240 We don't let Satan into the house of God. 01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:40.180 I mean, who am I trying to impress here? 01:13:41.320 --> 01:13:42.260 I'm not trying to impress. 01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:43.840 You know, I'm not here to please men. 01:13:44.580 --> 01:13:45.880 I'm not the servant of men. 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:46.840 I'm not here to please men. 01:13:46.940 --> 01:13:47.820 I'm here to please God. 01:13:48.200 --> 01:13:48.680 And you know what? 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:51.460 I love Texas and I love our culture 01:13:51.460 --> 01:13:53.480 and I love our history and it's being eroded 01:13:53.480 --> 01:13:56.640 and it makes me mad and I would love to fight for Texas. 01:13:56.840 --> 01:13:57.340 But you know what? 01:13:57.580 --> 01:13:58.740 The spiritual battle is more important. 01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:01.180 And if you really love Texas anyways, 01:14:01.440 --> 01:14:02.500 you would just fight the spiritual battle. 01:14:03.100 --> 01:14:05.840 And if you say, well, I'm gonna move to Arkansas. 01:14:07.080 --> 01:14:08.180 Okay, well, you know what? 01:14:08.320 --> 01:14:09.780 It better be a better church than this one. 01:14:11.240 --> 01:14:11.940 They are moving for. 01:14:14.060 --> 01:14:15.600 What should I do, Pastor Shelley? 01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:16.520 Where should I go? 01:14:16.580 --> 01:14:17.180 I don't know what to do. 01:14:17.180 --> 01:14:17.960 I don't know who to vote for. 01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:19.620 Ignore all that. 01:14:20.120 --> 01:14:21.600 Where can you serve God the best? 01:14:21.780 --> 01:14:22.680 That's what you should be doing with your life. 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:25.340 No matter where you are, no matter what you're doing, 01:14:25.780 --> 01:14:28.000 where can you serve God the best in your life 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:29.540 and you should just go all in on that 01:14:29.540 --> 01:14:30.460 because that's the only thing that matters. 01:14:31.400 --> 01:14:32.340 And who cares about others? 01:14:32.540 --> 01:14:34.720 Don't get discouraged by our politics being bad. 01:14:35.740 --> 01:14:37.700 I'm honestly, I'll be honest with you. 01:14:38.240 --> 01:14:39.740 I was kind of hoping that the Democrats 01:14:39.740 --> 01:14:40.840 would blow out the Republicans. 01:14:41.180 --> 01:14:44.120 And I know that probably sounds like sadistic 01:14:44.120 --> 01:14:44.600 or something. 01:14:47.460 --> 01:14:50.780 But one of the reasons why is just because I think 01:14:50.780 --> 01:14:54.000 that our Republican leadership is almost as bad anyways. 01:14:54.580 --> 01:14:57.620 But now people won't think that it was good magically 01:14:57.620 --> 01:15:00.560 or something or think that it was somehow like wonderful. 01:15:01.200 --> 01:15:02.760 They'll be like, oh, it is bad. 01:15:03.240 --> 01:15:05.560 And just identifying the problem 01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:07.320 is sometimes the first part of the solution. 01:15:08.820 --> 01:15:11.080 And maybe some people will just wake up and realize, 01:15:11.420 --> 01:15:13.080 look, I hate Democrats being in charge 01:15:13.080 --> 01:15:14.280 because they persecute us. 01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:15.020 They attack us. 01:15:15.080 --> 01:15:15.780 There's lawfare. 01:15:16.140 --> 01:15:16.800 They're evil. 01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:17.620 They're satanic. 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:18.620 They want to bring an abortion. 01:15:19.080 --> 01:15:20.700 I mean, all these videos of women just being like, 01:15:21.140 --> 01:15:21.880 yay, abortion! 01:15:22.860 --> 01:15:24.860 It's just like, that's how I say it. 01:15:24.980 --> 01:15:27.100 They said a little bit more feminine like, 01:15:27.380 --> 01:15:29.580 but it's just like, how can you be so bloodthirsty 01:15:29.580 --> 01:15:30.920 to murder children and stuff? 01:15:32.080 --> 01:15:32.680 It's gross. 01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:36.040 It's gross that in the church is just like, 01:15:36.260 --> 01:15:37.700 well, let's just bring them in and love on them. 01:15:37.720 --> 01:15:38.660 Let's embrace grace. 01:15:39.180 --> 01:15:40.800 No, let's say you're evil and satanic 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:42.080 and you deserve the death penalty. 01:15:42.080 --> 01:15:43.420 That's what we should say to these people. 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:45.040 And maybe someone will wake up 01:15:45.040 --> 01:15:46.580 and get out of their feminist nonsense 01:15:47.200 --> 01:15:49.260 and realize that children are not someone 01:15:49.260 --> 01:15:53.040 to be brutally tortured and murdered by a doctor. 01:15:54.140 --> 01:15:56.160 I thought the Hippocratic oath said, I will do no harm. 01:15:56.920 --> 01:15:59.300 And then they're just murdering babies in the womb. 01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:01.620 It's gross. 01:16:01.860 --> 01:16:02.380 It's disgusting. 01:16:02.660 --> 01:16:03.080 I hate it. 01:16:03.580 --> 01:16:06.360 And for that reason, it's hard to ever want Democrats 01:16:06.360 --> 01:16:08.280 to ever have even one ounce of power. 01:16:08.780 --> 01:16:09.560 But here's the thing. 01:16:09.700 --> 01:16:10.780 There was a lot of abortion going on 01:16:10.780 --> 01:16:12.000 under the public control anyways. 01:16:13.220 --> 01:16:14.500 Maybe people could wake up. 01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:16.300 We need someone to wake up, 01:16:16.700 --> 01:16:18.600 someone to get a grip on this world. 01:16:19.280 --> 01:16:22.100 It's getting weird and it's getting worse by the second. 01:16:22.700 --> 01:16:23.680 So how do we fix it? 01:16:24.220 --> 01:16:26.440 How do we get people to vote the right way? 01:16:27.380 --> 01:16:28.820 People are like, oh, well, it's demographics. 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:32.460 It's the women and it's the minorities, 01:16:32.540 --> 01:16:33.360 they're voting wrong. 01:16:33.820 --> 01:16:34.640 Well, you know what'll fix it? 01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:36.320 Making them an independent fundamental Baptist. 01:16:36.980 --> 01:16:38.100 That's what Grock told me, 01:16:38.120 --> 01:16:39.020 so they don't vote Democrat. 01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:43.920 So I don't, and you know what? 01:16:44.160 --> 01:16:45.480 It's not about color here. 01:16:46.080 --> 01:16:47.180 It's about being saved. 01:16:48.740 --> 01:16:50.780 Of course, expect the unsaved 01:16:50.780 --> 01:16:52.040 to do all kinds of dumb stuff. 01:16:52.840 --> 01:16:53.240 But you know what? 01:16:53.340 --> 01:16:54.700 Getting them saved, getting them in a good church, 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:56.940 getting them a Bible, that'll fix the issue 01:16:56.940 --> 01:16:57.520 for that person. 01:16:58.060 --> 01:16:59.720 And that's the only thing we can do. 01:17:00.360 --> 01:17:01.420 We're not gonna fix it permanently 01:17:01.780 --> 01:17:02.880 until Christ comes back, 01:17:03.020 --> 01:17:04.360 but you know, we can do the best we can. 01:17:04.940 --> 01:17:06.340 And you know, you'll be rewarded in heaven 01:17:06.340 --> 01:17:06.860 for what you did. 01:17:07.040 --> 01:17:09.100 And it's just to get that one more person saved anyways. 01:17:10.440 --> 01:17:11.700 I know I preached a long time, 01:17:11.780 --> 01:17:13.200 but you know, I wanted to, so. 01:17:14.980 --> 01:17:15.840 Don't get discouraged. 01:17:16.580 --> 01:17:20.260 You know, love Christ more than the state and America anyways. 01:17:21.200 --> 01:17:22.400 It's all gonna burn one day. 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:23.380 Let's close in prayer. 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:25.120 Thank you Heavenly Father, so much for your word. 01:17:25.240 --> 01:17:28.540 Thank you so much for the mystery being revealed to us, 01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:30.280 that the Gentiles would be fellow heirs 01:17:30.280 --> 01:17:32.520 and get to come into Christ's promises 01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:34.880 and be partakers of all of his promises. 01:17:35.100 --> 01:17:36.940 Thank you that you're willing to do 01:17:38.400 --> 01:17:40.620 exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. 01:17:40.740 --> 01:17:41.940 I pray that people in this room, 01:17:42.240 --> 01:17:43.460 that their faith would increase 01:17:43.460 --> 01:17:44.560 in their hearts and their minds. 01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:47.420 They wouldn't be discouraged by the evils 01:17:47.420 --> 01:17:48.600 and the wickedness of this world, 01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:50.300 but realize that we're supposed to contend with them. 01:17:50.820 --> 01:17:52.160 We're supposed to wrestle with them. 01:17:52.520 --> 01:17:53.740 We're supposed to take them to task. 01:17:53.860 --> 01:17:54.740 We're supposed to preach the truth. 01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:56.320 We're supposed to preach what the word of God says. 01:17:56.900 --> 01:17:59.140 I pray that you would use this church mightily 01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:01.440 so that the word of God could be effective 01:18:01.940 --> 01:18:03.860 and be effectual and people could be saved. 01:18:04.320 --> 01:18:06.080 People could be turned to things of God, 01:18:06.080 --> 01:18:08.820 to the righteousness that we could see people baptized, 01:18:09.220 --> 01:18:12.420 that we could see people changing their life 01:18:12.420 --> 01:18:14.240 to serve God, to becoming soul winners, 01:18:14.380 --> 01:18:15.180 to becoming disciples. 01:18:16.360 --> 01:18:18.180 I pray that you would encourage people 01:18:18.180 --> 01:18:20.120 to go on more missions trips and do more soul winning 01:18:20.120 --> 01:18:21.440 and the lean end of the things of God. 01:18:22.040 --> 01:18:24.340 And I pray that as we put you first, 01:18:24.820 --> 01:18:27.060 that you would help take care of all of our carnal needs 01:18:27.060 --> 01:18:29.720 and that we could see our faith come to sight 01:18:30.240 --> 01:18:31.240 through the blessing of God. 01:18:31.320 --> 01:18:32.820 And I pray that you continue to bless this church 01:18:32.820 --> 01:18:34.520 and keep us safe, keep us from the evil, 01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:36.180 but don't take us out of the world. 01:18:36.260 --> 01:18:37.160 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.