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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.40,0:00:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something that I know that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.12,0:00:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James and I encounter on a regular basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.60,0:00:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe some of the others of you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.26,0:00:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can relate to dealing \Nwith people like this
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.08,0:00:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even maybe in your own life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.21,0:00:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's these kind of wrestlings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.31,0:00:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From Joseph Foster:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.65,0:00:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pastor Tim,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.91,0:00:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like I'm spiritually dying."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.13,0:00:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I thought, that's probably
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.87,0:00:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a good name for the study tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.55,0:00:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like I'm spiritually dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.30,0:00:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My desires for God
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.22,0:00:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have come and gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.55,0:00:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't know what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.01,0:01:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe I committed the unpardonable
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.20,0:01:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my willful sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.48,0:01:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need help, because I can see God
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.41,0:01:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in everything except for my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.23,0:01:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that the gifts and call of God
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.72,0:01:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is without repentance,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.31,0:01:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but somehow I feel like He's done with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.34,0:01:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pray every day and ask the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.32,0:01:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to deliver me or shed light
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.79,0:01:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or show me what I must do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.53,0:01:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe I have some unrepented stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.31,0:01:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.21,0:01:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I know is God is silent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.49,0:01:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think He left me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.96,0:01:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, I'm still holding on and praying.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.50,0:01:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the worst ever,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.96,0:01:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I need help.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.30,0:01:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what to do or say to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.51,0:01:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please, if you could possibly pray for me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.55,0:01:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe pray about it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.19,0:01:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see what the Lord says to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.50,0:01:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd appreciate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.23,0:02:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if I'm even saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.62,0:02:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I heard God call me once.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.75,0:02:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember when He delivered me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.84,0:02:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and changed me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.27,0:02:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I've fallen into somewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.06,0:02:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never been in such \Na bad place spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.66,0:02:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't been a Christian long,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.09,0:02:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know the Word."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.61,0:02:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And obviously, you can see some
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.49,0:02:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back and forth here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.10,0:02:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if I'm even saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.32,0:02:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.89,0:02:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember when He delivered me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.51,0:02:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and changed me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.58,0:02:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says I haven't been a Christian long,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.80,0:02:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.92,0:02:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.90,0:02:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in a place where I never wanted to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.19,0:02:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never been in such \Na bad place spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.07,0:02:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may have committed the unpardonable sin
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.19,0:02:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my willful sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.60,0:03:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's obvious there's \Nlots of confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.33,0:03:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've fallen into somewhere \NI don't want to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.22,0:03:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never been in such \Na bad place spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.54,0:03:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't been a Christian long, \Nbut I know the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.13,0:03:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe, I don't know the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.42,0:03:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need help. Please."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.45,0:03:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James, how often do you get something
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.54,0:03:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this nature?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.70,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James: Every week.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim: Yeah, when the church phone
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.66,0:03:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rang my phone,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.73,0:03:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when my email address
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.15,0:03:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was public information,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.64,0:03:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got them oftentimes \Nmore than once a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.27,0:03:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, some people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.89,0:03:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once they start calling -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.79,0:03:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you get that?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.68,0:03:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the same people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.86,0:03:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over and over and over?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.10,0:03:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, sometimes even more than once a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.19,0:04:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James: I've been emailing him for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.09,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim: So, this is a guy that you didn't
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just get one message from.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.77,0:04:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James: Yeah, and he probably \Nsent that a year ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.31,0:04:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim: Probably.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.32,0:04:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought answering this
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.99,0:04:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not just good for him
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.12,0:04:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he happened to listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.54,0:04:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but numerous people -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.56,0:04:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for one, you've got numerous people
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.60,0:04:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they don't know if they're saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.06,0:04:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're back and forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.21,0:04:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I in? Am I out?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.90,0:04:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've got things happening in their life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.32,0:04:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're not certain \Nwhat to make of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.26,0:04:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I Christian? Am I not a Christian?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.36,0:04:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recognize something's not good.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.20,0:04:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something's not right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.99,0:04:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recognize God is silent.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.48,0:04:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on top of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.21,0:04:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have people all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.33,0:04:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it's a favorite with the devil
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.54,0:04:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really use the unpardonable sin
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.48,0:05:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to paralyze people spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.24,0:05:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know, when we did
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.41,0:05:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a full-blown message on the \Nunpardonable sin one time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.43,0:05:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mentioned in there
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.32,0:05:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own testimony that \Nshortly after I was saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.28,0:05:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came under the grips \Nof that kind of thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.89,0:05:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God took me through it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.09,0:05:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just gave me real assurance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.51,0:05:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my own soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.98,0:05:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you know, one of the things is
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.93,0:05:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James has been dealing with this guy
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.17,0:05:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.78,0:05:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And see, the thing about \None paragraph like this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.80,0:05:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there's so much
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.66,0:05:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you really need clarity on;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.66,0:05:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's so much that you need
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.42,0:05:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk to somebody about;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.74,0:05:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's so much you need to dig into.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.01,0:05:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because here's the problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.38,0:06:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people give you \Na paragraph like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.09,0:06:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thing is people often -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.88,0:06:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we kind of have this built-in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.04,0:06:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protection mechanism -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.55,0:06:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people often present things in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.59,0:06:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are wanting pity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.58,0:06:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you see this.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.59,0:06:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see this if you've got a situation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.01,0:06:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like in a pastoral situation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.40,0:06:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we've got a problem \Nbetween two people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.60,0:06:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know, if you \Nhear one person's side,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.77,0:06:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're going to get a story
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.34,0:06:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of times that is very one-sided
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.29,0:06:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you're getting their side,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.48,0:06:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's going to be that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.25,0:06:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And oftentimes, when \Nyou hear it presented,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.81,0:06:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, it's presented in a light -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.10,0:06:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're going to emphasize the things
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.88,0:06:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they want to emphasize,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.56,0:06:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is an agenda here
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.28,0:07:03.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prove oneself right.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.89,0:07:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oftentimes, it's not surprising
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.30,0:07:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people have defense mechanisms up
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.71,0:07:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they want to protect themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.45,0:07:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they desire to be in the right,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.86,0:07:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they desire to have pity,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.61,0:07:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they desire other people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.25,0:07:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show compassion to them
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.30,0:07:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and feel for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.61,0:07:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's a sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.98,0:07:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you can present things,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.54,0:07:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't always get all the details.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.60,0:07:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes you don't get some \Nof the most relevant details,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.07,0:07:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and James, if he just \Nunfolded with this guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.00,0:07:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he could probably tell you things
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.12,0:07:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are not expressed here
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.28,0:07:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are really critical and necessary
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.79,0:07:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to properly diagnose
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.02,0:07:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a guy like this is at spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.54,0:07:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I think there's some general things
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.47,0:08:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can say about a situation like this
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.87,0:08:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can be really helpful.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.15,0:08:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about what he's saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.69,0:08:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the impression \Nthat you get here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.06,0:08:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get the feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.48,0:08:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that very often, very often,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.99,0:08:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get the feeling from people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.33,0:08:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are in a situation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.94,0:08:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if it was in their control,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.17,0:08:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would not be in.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.35,0:08:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See what I'm saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.54,0:08:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get this sense
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.74,0:08:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they want to be saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.70,0:08:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God's not saving them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.92,0:08:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or they want to have assurance,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.31,0:08:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God's not giving it to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.11,0:08:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it's presented in a way:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.23,0:09:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I want this. I want this.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.05,0:09:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would gladly be converted.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.97,0:09:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would gladly be a healthy Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.26,0:09:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would gladly have all this assurance,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.51,0:09:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it were in my power to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.92,0:09:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it were up to me, \Nthat's what I would have.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.27,0:09:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the condition I would be in.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.20,0:09:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be a very healthy Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.93,0:09:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have assurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.12,0:09:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be walking well.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.64,0:09:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be pleasing the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.67,0:09:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.25,0:09:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's presented in the way it comes across,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.16,0:09:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they believe that they're doing everything
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.71,0:09:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can possibly do
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.73,0:09:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to make things right with God,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.71,0:09:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God isn't coming through.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.30,0:09:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you didn't hear that in this,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.35,0:09:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me emphasize something again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.13,0:09:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.49,0:09:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Maybe I have some unrepented stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.39,0:09:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.45,0:09:57.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I know is God is silent,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.17,0:09:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think He left me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.18,0:10:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, I'm still holding on..."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.77,0:10:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God left me. I'm holding on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.19,0:10:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...and praying.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.65,0:10:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the worst ever and I need help."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.23,0:10:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see the feeling \Nthat you're getting?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.39,0:10:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need help and God's not helping me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.92,0:10:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I don't know what to do
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.80,0:10:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or say to Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.83,0:10:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, I've expended myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.69,0:10:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've gone to Him for help.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.66,0:10:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've said everything I know how to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.69,0:10:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've done everything I know how to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.53,0:10:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's not helping me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.26,0:10:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Please. If you could \Npossibly pray for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.27,0:10:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe pray about it
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.58,0:10:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see what the Lord says to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.86,0:10:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd appreciate it."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.41,0:10:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, you see what he's saying here?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.16,0:10:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying I'm holding on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.23,0:10:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm praying.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.82,0:10:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get this idea again
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.84,0:11:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he's assuming
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.82,0:11:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would gladly make \Neverything right with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.54,0:11:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, let me tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.04,0:11:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I feel for this guy in this sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.62,0:11:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there confusion? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.27,0:11:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there frustration? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.97,0:11:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there ignorance? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.43,0:11:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, to be in the place he is.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.71,0:11:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel pity for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.31,0:11:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But listen, we need to \Nlisten very carefully
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.72,0:11:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people speak this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.25,0:11:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, if anybody says to us;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.31,0:11:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come across in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.33,0:11:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm doing everything
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.82,0:11:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God won't save me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.80,0:12:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm willing to be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.60,0:12:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm willing to be right.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.68,0:12:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm willing to have a \Nrelationship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.81,0:12:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God is silent.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.19,0:12:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's not helping.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.04,0:12:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's not coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.83,0:12:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you need to be very careful -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.25,0:12:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very careful that you pity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.12,0:12:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an individual like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.55,0:12:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fall into basically
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.28,0:12:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting your arm around them
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.06,0:12:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and staring at God like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.52,0:12:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know? What are You doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.48,0:12:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, what are You doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.73,0:12:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.46,0:12:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.05,0:12:44.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to be real careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.100,0:12:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because look, the fact is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.17,0:12:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when you go to Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.66,0:12:54.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you ever find -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.95,0:12:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you ever find?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.60,0:13:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking the other day,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.63,0:13:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years ago, years ago, years ago...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.05,0:13:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw this Hollywood production -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.74,0:13:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was it called "The Robe?"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.01,0:13:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that was made
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.45,0:13:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about some Roman soldier.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.40,0:13:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was "Ben Hur" or it was \N"The Robe" or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.94,0:13:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.00,0:13:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,portrayed in the movie
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.78,0:13:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was basically on a stretcher -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.34,0:13:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a bed -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.18,0:13:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were hauling her around.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.90,0:13:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.98,0:13:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked the Master to heal me
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.23,0:13:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He didn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.35,0:13:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He told me that it was God's will
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.40,0:13:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I not be healed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.17,0:13:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody see that movie?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.85,0:13:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody know what I'm talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.97,0:14:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's probably best you don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.02,0:14:02.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've always remembered that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.65,0:14:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that how dare Hollywood do that!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.52,0:14:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How dare they do that!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.41,0:14:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is no small thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.20,0:14:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is no account \Nlike that in the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.07,0:14:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no account of somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.36,0:14:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genuinely going to the Lord for help
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.24,0:14:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He turned His back on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.08,0:14:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.70,0:14:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, do you know what you find?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.68,0:14:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.54,0:14:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How often I would have gathered you,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.100,0:14:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you would not."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.64,0:14:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we need to be aware
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.89,0:14:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of just how God presents \NHimself in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.90,0:14:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, what can happen is
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.37,0:14:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you begin to get exposed
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.38,0:14:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to accounts like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.05,0:15:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can begin to suppose
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.42,0:15:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is how they feel,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.18,0:15:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is cruel.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.86,0:15:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is standoffish.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.98,0:15:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God doesn't want to help me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.17,0:15:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is just up there
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.56,0:15:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in all my desperation
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.77,0:15:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all my cries for help,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.74,0:15:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just ignores me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.01,0:15:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not the case.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.29,0:15:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not how we find \Nthe Lord in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.20,0:15:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not how we find it at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.26,0:15:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know I've brought \Nthis verse up before,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.55,0:15:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think it's worth looking at again.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.50,0:15:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at Luke 14.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.31,0:15:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really dealt strongly with this text
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.61,0:15:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I dealt with hyper-Calvinism.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.19,0:15:52.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, we want to think right.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.19,0:15:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.85,0:16:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who claim to be seeking for \NGod and not find Him -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.56,0:16:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't ever let them \Nchange your view of God
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.12,0:16:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a solidly biblical view of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.49,0:16:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from a solidly biblical view
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.96,0:16:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the free offer of the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.74,0:16:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, we can take sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.16,0:16:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just far too much at their word
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.94,0:16:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the place where we \Nbegin to question God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.89,0:16:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to the place where \Na shadow comes over.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.13,0:16:37.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be careful
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.29,0:16:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when unconverted people
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.46,0:16:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or people like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.72,0:16:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who they don't know if they're in,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.48,0:16:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't know if they're out,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.78,0:16:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're doing everything
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.48,0:16:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He requires,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.62,0:16:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're praying,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.62,0:16:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're calling upon Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.04,0:16:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're believing,\Nand they're trusting,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.18,0:16:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're repenting,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.67,0:17:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God isn't doing anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.84,0:17:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that just isn't true.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.75,0:17:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, if God hasn't saved somebody,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.64,0:17:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be certain they have not believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.90,0:17:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be certain.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.16,0:17:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyway, Luke 14.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.11,0:17:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's look at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.25,0:17:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verse 16
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.37,0:17:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to have this in \Nour mind all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.70,0:17:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is such a helpful and balancing text.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.63,0:17:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.90,0:17:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'A man once gave a great banquet,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.09,0:17:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and invited many.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.29,0:17:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice the invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.31,0:17:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice that the people aren't
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.64,0:17:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing everything that they possibly can do
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.45,0:17:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get into the banquet,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.21,0:17:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's keeping them out.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.32,0:17:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture never paints a picture
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.82,0:17:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a banquet going on in here,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.57,0:17:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the crowds are \Namassed around the house
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.59,0:18:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to get in at the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.54,0:18:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now once the door's shut,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.10,0:18:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people try to get in.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.93,0:18:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After it's too late.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.29,0:18:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in this day, at this time,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.47,0:18:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this age of the free \Noffer of the Gospel,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.96,0:18:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is never a picture of a closed door.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.98,0:18:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The picture is: you're invited.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.82,0:18:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's never a picture of people
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.40,0:18:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gathered at the door saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.84,0:18:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please, let us in;\Nplease, let us in.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.68,0:18:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's saying, oh no,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.82,0:18:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no, you can't come in.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.95,0:18:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what we find.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.25,0:18:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember what Scripture says?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.12,0:18:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kindness of God
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.12,0:18:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is meant to lead us to repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.95,0:18:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to harden us.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.42,0:18:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God didn't give Joseph his meal
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.38,0:18:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the day that he wrote this
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.47,0:18:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to convince him that He was a cruel God
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.01,0:18:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unwilling to help sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.45,0:18:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.47,0:18:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the opposite message
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.90,0:19:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was sent by the meal he ate that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.46,0:19:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the way Scripture \Npresents it is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.69,0:19:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It presents it as here's this banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.48,0:19:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's this banquet - v. 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.56,0:19:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A man once gave a great banquet
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.33,0:19:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and invited many.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.02,0:19:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the time for the banquet,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.57,0:19:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sent his servant to say to those
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.31,0:19:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been invited,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.60,0:19:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Come, for everything is now ready.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.08,0:19:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what? They didn't flock there
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.10,0:19:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he turned them away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.72,0:19:41.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all alike began to make excuses.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.100,0:19:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The first said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.33,0:19:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I have bought a field.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.66,0:19:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must go out and see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.16,0:19:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please have me excused.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.50,0:19:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it's not God turning them away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.63,0:19:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's them making excuses and running away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.58,0:20:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we have to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.18,0:20:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look, if somebody comes along
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.86,0:20:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're questioning whether
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.54,0:20:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are even saved at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.61,0:20:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they put God in a bad light.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.47,0:20:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, be careful that \Nyou don't take sinners -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.87,0:20:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unconverted sinners -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.16,0:20:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much at their word
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.29,0:20:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as the picture they paint
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.27,0:20:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an unwilling God to save.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.76,0:20:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.24,0:20:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.36,0:20:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lost people are in the \Npower of the evil one.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.74,0:20:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lost people are deceived.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.27,0:20:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lost people do not have
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.32,0:20:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proper views of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.20,0:20:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be careful that you don't \Nbuy into that view.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.95,0:20:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what God does is
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.60,0:20:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He shows Himself in Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.90,0:20:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very willing to save.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.36,0:20:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He sends His Son into this world
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.20,0:20:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually even look at a city
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.35,0:20:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of His rejectors and weep tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.37,0:21:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say how often I \Nwould have gathered you,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.09,0:21:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a hen gathers her chicks,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.26,0:21:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you would not.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.83,0:21:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would not.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:07.60,0:21:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not, I would not. You would not.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.27,0:21:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how God communicated to this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.18,0:21:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the kind of Messiah \NHe sent into this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.20,0:21:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They all alike began to make excuses.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.39,0:21:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.45,0:21:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I bought a field. I \Nmust go out and see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.59,0:21:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please have me excused.'
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.76,0:21:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another said, 'I bought five yoke of oxen
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.71,0:21:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I go to examine them.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.19,0:21:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please have me excused.'
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.78,0:21:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another said, 'I've married a wife
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.48,0:21:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore I cannot come.'
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.33,0:21:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the servant came and reported
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.90,0:21:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these things to his master.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.49,0:21:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the master of the \Nhouse became angry."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.69,0:21:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.86,0:21:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is He angry at a bunch of people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.57,0:21:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that want to be saved
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.05,0:21:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are standing at the door
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.47,0:21:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to get in to the banquet?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.01,0:21:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He's angry because \NHe didn't elect them?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.63,0:21:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.54,0:22:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's angry because the \Ninvitation was free;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.88,0:22:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was full;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.59,0:22:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they refused it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.69,0:22:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sinners on judgment day
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.47,0:22:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not talk like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.10,0:22:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They won't talk like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.70,0:22:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I know there's confusion here.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.99,0:22:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, did you hear?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.16,0:22:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said maybe I committed the unpardonable
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.24,0:22:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my willful sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.16,0:22:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what he's acknowledging here?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.54,0:22:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Willful sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.99,0:22:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what Scripture says?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.19,0:22:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you think of \Nanywhere in the Scriptures
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.42,0:22:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it speaks about willful sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.43,0:22:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two texts come right to my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.50,0:22:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you think of one?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.44,0:22:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hebrews 10:26. Let's turn there.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.36,0:23:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep your finger here because we \Nneed to finish out this account.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.78,0:23:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, he's acknowledging \Nthat he has had light.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.52,0:23:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's acknowledging that he has been
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.29,0:23:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exposed to the Gospel it would seem.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.24,0:23:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's acknowledging that he even believes
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.56,0:23:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was exposed to so much
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.37,0:23:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he thinks he may have been saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.02,0:23:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I haven't been a Christian long,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.41,0:23:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know the Word."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.97,0:23:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.91,0:23:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, he admits willful sin here.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.62,0:23:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hebrews 10:26
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.26,0:23:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If we go on sinning deliberately
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.57,0:23:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(or willfully)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.65,0:23:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after receiving the \Nknowledge of the truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.96,0:23:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there no longer remains \Na sacrifice for sins."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.01,0:23:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you something \Nelse you don't want to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.97,0:24:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't want to come to people like this
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.18,0:24:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assure them that \Neverything's going to be ok.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.12,0:24:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or even assure them that \Neverything is presently ok.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.96,0:24:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.07,0:24:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to worry.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.20,0:24:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You haven't committed \Nthe unpardonable sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.60,0:24:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You haven't gone too far.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.20,0:24:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You haven't been overly willful
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.06,0:24:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tread upon the blood of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.38,0:24:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't tell people that.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.97,0:24:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.08,0:24:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are such things in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.80,0:24:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you know the Word
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.52,0:24:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've been exposed to the truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.37,0:24:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you go on in willful sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.22,0:24:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is extremely dangerous.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.77,0:24:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you don't want \Nto tell people it's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.69,0:24:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't want to tell \Npeople at all that it's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.31,0:24:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, back to Luke 14.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.40,0:24:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Another said, 'I have married a wife
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.39,0:24:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(v. 20) and therefore I cannot come.'
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.04,0:24:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the servant came and reported \Nthese things to his master.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.53,0:24:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the master of the house became angry
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.22,0:24:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said to his servant,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.47,0:25:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Go out quickly to the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.70,0:25:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lanes of the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.35,0:25:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring in the poor and crippled
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.87,0:25:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blind and lame.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.17,0:25:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the servant said,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.61,0:25:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Sir, what you've commanded has been done.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.26,0:25:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still there is room.'
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.27,0:25:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The master said to the servant,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.77,0:25:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Go out to the highways and hedges...'"
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.02,0:25:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon preached a tremendous message
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.28,0:25:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this text called, \N"Compel Them to Come In."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.30,0:25:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice this.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.90,0:25:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice what the master is saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.87,0:25:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Compel people to come in
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.58,0:25:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my house may be filled.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.47,0:25:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For I tell you, none of those men
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.10,0:25:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were invited shall taste my banquet."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.91,0:25:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not because they got invited
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.64,0:25:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they desperately wanted to come
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.97,0:25:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were turned away.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.96,0:25:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only because \Nwhen the invitation came,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.100,0:25:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they thought there were better things
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.28,0:25:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.10,0:25:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, there's only one thing
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.55,0:25:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prevents people from coming
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.10,0:26:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.42,0:26:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's clearly that they loved other things
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.72,0:26:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than the banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.88,0:26:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were more important.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.15,0:26:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, one of the things is
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.27,0:26:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to be honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.95,0:26:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's obviously a young guy using "IDK."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.35,0:26:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That "IDK" shows up a lot of times here.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.57,0:26:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know. I don't know.\NI don't know. I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.30,0:26:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? You need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.23,0:26:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.14,0:26:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I tell you something?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.28,0:26:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind Bartimaeus is a great picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.72,0:26:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Why do I say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.27,0:26:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus came passing by \Non His way to Jericho.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.15,0:27:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind Bartimaeus - what did he do?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.33,0:27:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He heard the throng of people going by.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.44,0:27:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.63,0:27:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus, Son of David.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.88,0:27:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did he do?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.72,0:27:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did blind Bartimaeus do?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.31,0:27:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cried out!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.56,0:27:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did the crowd do?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.54,0:27:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James: Rebuked him. \NTelling him to be silent.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.80,0:27:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim: Shut up!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.24,0:27:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hold your tongue!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.49,0:27:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did he do?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.84,0:27:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He kept going.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.54,0:27:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know why?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.48,0:27:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two realities gripped that man.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.41,0:27:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be sure of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.39,0:27:44.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.35,0:27:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my only hope is Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.83,0:27:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you don't yell like that
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.66,0:27:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until there's a proper assessment
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.27,0:27:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of who you are, what your condition is,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.39,0:27:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who He is
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.56,0:27:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that your only hope is found there.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.31,0:28:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is key.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.72,0:28:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.78,0:28:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.70,0:28:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.75,0:28:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to be honest with ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.64,0:28:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what, no sinner ever gets saved
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.55,0:28:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until they come face to face
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.90,0:28:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with what they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.01,0:28:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do sinners flee to Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.34,0:28:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they come to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:28:18.83,0:28:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like blind Bartimaeus,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.43,0:28:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord..." I mean, they're \Nnot going to give up.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.47,0:28:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember that night
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.40,0:28:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I cried out.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.10,0:28:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I saw what I was.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.24,0:28:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He was my only hope
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.91,0:28:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my only help.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.81,0:28:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.90,0:28:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you remember what Jesus said.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.86,0:28:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said the doctor comes for the sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.66,0:28:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, if you waffle around.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.05,0:28:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes the thing with people
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.44,0:28:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who they don't know if \Nthey're saved or lost,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.50,0:29:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the real issue is:
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.55,0:29:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't know if \Nthey're a sinner or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.07,0:29:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the real issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.88,0:29:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the real issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.48,0:29:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I don't know if I'm \Nreally that bad or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.22,0:29:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, blind Bartimaeus was not waffling
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.27,0:29:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about his blindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.21,0:29:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.36,0:29:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew. We need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.44,0:29:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to do serious and honest
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.91,0:29:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual evaluation.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.16,0:29:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really do.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.24,0:29:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.49,0:29:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody, until they recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.46,0:29:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.38,0:29:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see those people in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.35,0:29:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was desperation.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.18,0:29:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The woman - she had that issue of blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.44,0:29:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've got to get to Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.64,0:29:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the one thing that occupied her.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.55,0:29:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Versus what?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.39,0:30:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luke 14
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.32,0:30:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What were they occupied with?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.10,0:30:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bunch of other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.74,0:30:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunches of other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.47,0:30:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's one thing that keeps those people.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.87,0:30:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's their idols.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.79,0:30:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's their sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.72,0:30:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's when you love that ox,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.87,0:30:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that team of oxen;
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.01,0:30:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's when when you love that wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.68,0:30:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that land more than the banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.96,0:30:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your heart is pulled after other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.21,0:30:29.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they don't recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.85,0:30:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when you get to the place
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.57,0:30:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Bartimaeus is,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.29,0:30:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.01,0:30:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, remember those words?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.16,0:30:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember when the invitation came to him?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.88,0:30:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember when the invitation
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.32,0:30:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the banquet came to him?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.56,0:30:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He's calling you."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.79,0:30:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you have that looked up?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.71,0:30:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have Mark's account?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.63,0:31:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen when they call him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.83,0:31:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Read what happens when they call him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.97,0:31:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And Jesus stopped and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.69,0:31:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Call him.'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.90,0:31:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they called the blind man,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.42,0:31:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.58,0:31:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Take heart. Get up. He is calling you.'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.17,0:31:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throwing off his cloak,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.37,0:31:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sprang up and came to Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.80,0:31:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.23,0:31:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Jesus said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.10,0:31:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'what do you want Me to do for you?'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.52,0:31:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the blind man said to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.37,0:31:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Rabbi, let me recover my sight.'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.20,0:31:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.72,0:31:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Go your way. Your faith \Nhas made you well.'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.99,0:31:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And immediately he recovered his sight
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.92,0:31:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and followed Him on the way."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.32,0:31:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you love that?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.19,0:31:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.72,0:31:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.13,0:31:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.71,0:31:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's calling you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.30,0:31:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly Luke 14.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.50,0:31:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go call them.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.69,0:31:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Master's calling you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.99,0:32:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, there was a master there?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.79,0:32:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The invitation went out.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.14,0:32:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Master's calling you.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.33,0:32:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know why the wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.70,0:32:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the field, the oxen?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.02,0:32:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you don't really know
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.50,0:32:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you are and how bad you need that.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.23,0:32:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that's the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.18,0:32:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we have to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.59,0:32:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.25,0:32:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? I don't know if I'm sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.96,0:32:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know where I'm at.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.26,0:32:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.82,0:32:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the thing that \Nyou find in Scripture -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.26,0:32:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that leper that went to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.93,0:32:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he knew he was a leper.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.22,0:32:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blind man that went to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.89,0:32:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he knew he was blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.85,0:32:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Syropheonician woman
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.49,0:32:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew her daughter had a demon.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.17,0:32:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The man down there at the bottom
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.77,0:32:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Mount of Transfiguration
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.34,0:32:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew his son had a demon.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.40,0:32:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in Scripture - they knew.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.13,0:32:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew they had a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.03,0:33:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew - my daughter is sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.94,0:33:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got an issue of blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.42,0:33:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.62,0:33:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've got to get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.73,0:33:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there's only one \Nway to come to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.38,0:33:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is desperate,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.82,0:33:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is helpless,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.03,0:33:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is broken,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.44,0:33:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is seeing in Him our only help
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.47,0:33:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.86,0:33:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I feel like I'm spiritually dying."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.35,0:33:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.02,0:33:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what, we have to step back
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.00,0:33:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:31.39,0:33:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, is there not a cause?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.34,0:33:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, is there not a cause?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.70,0:33:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to ask ourselves that
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.82,0:33:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if we're in a place
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.32,0:33:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we're solidly \Ngrounded as Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.55,0:33:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we start getting into a cold state,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.02,0:33:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a backslidden state,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.72,0:33:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some kind of spiritual declension,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.24,0:33:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to ask ourselves this.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.81,0:33:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there not a cause?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.15,0:34:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did I not get here some way?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.11,0:34:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we have to be honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.70,0:34:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really have to be honest
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.50,0:34:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the state of our own souls.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.35,0:34:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the people that run to Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.21,0:34:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ones that look up and recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.61,0:34:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have anything to offer.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.59,0:34:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.47,0:34:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have any righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.16,0:34:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, I'm guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.19,0:34:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.49,0:34:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where I was.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.51,0:34:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have any righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.16,0:34:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't have any hope
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.84,0:34:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than in Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.46,0:34:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am hellbound and I'm going there
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.89,0:34:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I deserve to go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.92,0:34:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if Christ doesn't save me,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.48,0:34:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.41,0:34:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I cried out.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:51.80,0:34:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when you get to the place
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.08,0:34:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you do know
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.68,0:35:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're a leper;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.08,0:35:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do know
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.09,0:35:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lazarus is dead in that grave;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.62,0:35:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do know you're blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.28,0:35:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you do know
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.65,0:35:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your daughter has a demon.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.52,0:35:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not ignorant.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.85,0:35:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not playing games.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.29,0:35:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.46,0:35:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of times when we say we don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.71,0:35:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.39,0:35:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the fact is we do know.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.49,0:35:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This statement here,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.60,0:35:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Maybe I have some unrepented stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.67,0:35:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.04,0:35:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.08,0:35:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do know.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.07,0:35:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.50,0:35:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I'm not talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.63,0:35:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking under rocks for stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.74,0:35:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.76,0:35:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're sinners by nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.71,0:36:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've done things in our life
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.48,0:36:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have idols
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.77,0:36:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're wrecked in ways we do know.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.18,0:36:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you know, the truth is
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.49,0:36:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this guy even is a genuine Christian -
Dialogue: 0,0:36:16.26,0:36:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he is after all this -
Dialogue: 0,0:36:19.62,0:36:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.90,0:36:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, if we begin to go into a place
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.61,0:36:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we find ourselves spiritually dying,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.67,0:36:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way out is honesty.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.79,0:36:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.90,0:36:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only way you get \Nsaved in the first place
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.31,0:36:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is honesty.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:41.70,0:36:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a sinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.78,0:36:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that was the tax collector.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.67,0:36:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, be merciful to me, the sinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.73,0:36:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God doesn't save the righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.78,0:36:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never has.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.24,0:37:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't save those who are well.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.92,0:37:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know how any sinner
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.71,0:37:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who really gets saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.86,0:37:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets saved in the beginning?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.50,0:37:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come desperate.\NThey come broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.55,0:37:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come bankrupt.\NThey come guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.86,0:37:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come vile.\NThey come filthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.87,0:37:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come a sinner
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.42,0:37:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a Savior.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.62,0:37:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, the thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.18,0:37:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we begin to fall into some kind
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.70,0:37:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of spiritual lethargy,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.62,0:37:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same way we came honest
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.43,0:37:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the beginning, we need to come again.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:30.12,0:37:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, the truth is,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.99,0:37:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do have things in my life \NI need to confess to You,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.18,0:37:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I need to repent of.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.46,0:37:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we do know.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.28,0:37:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.27,0:37:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a matter of being honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.01,0:37:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we really think,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.57,0:37:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we really think...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.40,0:38:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we do know.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.06,0:38:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, no concealment.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.00,0:38:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No concealment.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.53,0:38:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we confess our sins,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.22,0:38:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's faithful and just to forgive.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.87,0:38:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really believe there's so much
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.14,0:38:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1 John 1 about fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.24,0:38:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.24,0:38:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true when we come at first
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.54,0:38:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's true in maintaining
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.98,0:38:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that relationship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.93,0:38:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot be hiding things.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.56,0:38:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No concealment.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.81,0:38:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There needs to be honesty.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.57,0:38:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't be compromised.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.29,0:38:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unreserved openness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:39.55,0:38:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We talked about, Sunday,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.81,0:38:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with open face.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.66,0:38:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to deal with God
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.15,0:38:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an unveiled, open face.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.10,0:38:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open hearts before Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.41,0:38:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go to Christ as sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.83,0:38:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once we're saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.26,0:39:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we go to Him as we really are.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.90,0:39:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, the thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.34,0:39:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the same whether \Nwe go to Christ at first
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.10,0:39:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether we go to Him now.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:09.32,0:39:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is that we go to Him to receive.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:19.07,0:39:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't want anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.87,0:39:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what He says.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.89,0:39:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water of life without price.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.74,0:39:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know the same thing goes
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.25,0:39:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.04,0:39:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, He expects us as Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.53,0:39:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be living the righteous life,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:36.89,0:39:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's still abiding in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.63,0:39:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He supplies all of our needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.60,0:39:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He supplies through His riches.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.74,0:39:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't come from us.\NIt doesn't originate with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.38,0:39:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no starting point with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.61,0:39:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not the source.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.16,0:39:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not the originator
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.34,0:39:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of anything we need to live this life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.24,0:39:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can lose sight of that
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.58,0:39:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we walk in this Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.26,0:39:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can lose sight of the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.76,0:40:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are just as dependent on God now
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.96,0:40:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we were at the very beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.00,0:40:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we become careless and negligent
Dialogue: 0,0:40:06.57,0:40:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.69,0:40:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become self-sufficient;
Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.18,0:40:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become independent.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.85,0:40:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look, we need to be honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.96,0:40:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't conceal anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.56,0:40:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's admitting willful sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.85,0:40:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he says maybe I have things
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.84,0:40:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I need to repent of - I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.27,0:40:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the kind of attitude
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.78,0:40:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to leave you
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.11,0:40:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a condition like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.64,0:40:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, look, when you recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.76,0:40:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just like blind Bartimaeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.42,0:40:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless the Son of David comes to me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:50.17,0:40:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and answers my cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:54.37,0:40:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no help.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.59,0:40:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so what do you do?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.88,0:40:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you really recognize you're blind
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.69,0:41:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you really recognize \NHe's your only help
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.12,0:41:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is no other,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.20,0:41:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are going to cry in desperation
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.23,0:41:09.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until He says, "Call him."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.14,0:41:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Come."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.26,0:41:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then what do you do?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.42,0:41:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You throw off the garment and you run!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.85,0:41:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because you really saw what you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.18,0:41:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you really saw that \NHe is your only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.08,0:41:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says here,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.22,0:41:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I feel like He's done with me."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.88,0:41:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I don't know that \Nand he doesn't know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.31,0:41:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.54,0:41:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Christ is the only Savior of sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.64,0:41:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is no other hope this guy has.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.50,0:41:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we going to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.50,0:41:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we feel this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.74,0:41:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if somebody else feels this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.48,0:41:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are we going to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.42,0:41:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, ok, you feel like God's done with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.89,0:41:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? Should you assume He is?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.26,0:41:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just be content to go to hell?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.15,0:42:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't advise that.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.12,0:42:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't advise anybody to take that.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:05.31,0:42:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm sitting there \Nlike blind Bartimaeus,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.57,0:42:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might I say to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.80,0:42:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.24,0:42:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm real bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.28,0:42:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm so bad that I don't know \Nif there's any hope for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.26,0:42:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, He's the Savior and if \Nanybody's going to help me;
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.86,0:42:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if anybody's going to provide \Nhope for me it's Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.68,0:42:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, help me.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.02,0:42:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help somebody that's committed \Nthe unpardonable sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.54,0:42:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to be saved!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.56,0:42:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, brethren, you guys understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.08,0:42:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saving faith is not \Nbelieving you're saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.33,0:42:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's assurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.09,0:42:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saving faith is like blind Bartimaeus
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.03,0:42:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:57.06,0:43:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is my only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.68,0:43:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm trusting Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.39,0:43:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm trusting Him to save sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.27,0:43:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as He shows in His Word
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.06,0:43:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He will for those who trust Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.63,0:43:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faith believes,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.64,0:43:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that I'm saved;
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.35,0:43:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faith believes in the Person
Dialogue: 0,0:43:27.42,0:43:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the work of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.52,0:43:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that that alone is my hope
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.100,0:43:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it satisfied God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.81,0:43:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.64,0:43:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I think my primary reason
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.03,0:43:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for bringing this up
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.62,0:43:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we want to be careful, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.31,0:43:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't think wrongly of God
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.87,0:44:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we find sinners struggling,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:04.46,0:44:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assuming and wanting to convince you
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.05,0:44:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're doing \Neverything in their power
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.16,0:44:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that they're actually responding
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.94,0:44:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a biblical manner,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:12.13,0:44:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God wants nothing to do with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.86,0:44:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't fall for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:16.81,0:44:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't fall for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.25,0:44:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, those who do not \Nwant to give up their sins,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:26.58,0:44:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,typically find the Gospel \Nvery difficult to understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.45,0:44:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and typically find fault with God
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.84,0:44:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for not saving them on their terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.56,0:44:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People that are scared to death of hell,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.95,0:44:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but love their sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.70,0:44:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will tell you stories
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.98,0:44:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will cast a shadow \Nover God's character.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.04,0:44:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.18,0:44:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason they will
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.41,0:44:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because they want to get to heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.24,0:44:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding their sins,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.16,0:44:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God won't save them
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.13,0:45:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they want to skip hell
Dialogue: 0,0:45:03.08,0:45:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hold on to the sin \Nthey so dearly love.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.46,0:45:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see, that is precisely the thing
Dialogue: 0,0:45:10.95,0:45:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only thing
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.21,0:45:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that keeps men and women from responding
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.55,0:45:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.69,0:45:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They love their stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:22.75,0:45:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They love their sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.78,0:45:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, you can imagine the guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.27,0:45:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can imagine the guy, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.84,0:45:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That went to see his oxen?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.21,0:45:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once he comes to recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.77,0:45:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, ok, I've checked them out now.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.86,0:45:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might like to get into the banquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.76,0:45:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, God's going to keep me out?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.58,0:45:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, be careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.36,0:45:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture says that if you hear
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.32,0:45:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fullness of this truth;
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.68,0:45:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you hear about the blood of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.28,0:45:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you go on willfully sinning,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.78,0:45:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may find that the Master is angry
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.30,0:46:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll never get in.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.05,0:46:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be very careful.\NBe very careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.46,0:46:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the big thing \Nthat I want to stress
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.26,0:46:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in situations like this
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.34,0:46:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we want to stand for \Nthe character of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:15.67,0:46:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in Scripture, God sent His Son
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.79,0:46:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this world
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.80,0:46:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shed tears over His rejectors,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.34,0:46:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to shed tears
Dialogue: 0,0:46:28.36,0:46:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to exclaim with great pathos
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.35,0:46:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would have gathered you.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.97,0:46:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have gathered you
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.46,0:46:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you would not.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.46,0:46:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that is the character
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.03,0:46:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the God that we find in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.15,0:46:54.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody want to add anything to that?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.31,0:46:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James: We could maybe just give a thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.49,0:46:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you mentioned a couple times:
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.22,0:47:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come to Christ broken,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.06,0:47:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and constant response to that is
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.30,0:47:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they look inwardly and think,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.84,0:47:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am I broken enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.51,0:47:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tim: Yes, and that's so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.22,0:47:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just reading \NLloyd-Jones the other day,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.62,0:47:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said this:
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.61,0:47:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said there was a day
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.44,0:47:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the term repentance
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.41,0:47:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communicated weakness.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.31,0:47:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.17,0:47:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a thing to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.19,0:47:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, I get this distinct feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.20,0:47:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we talk about repentance,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.34,0:47:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't make people think of weakness.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:46.62,0:47:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes people think of \Nsomething they need to do
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.75,0:47:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to get God's attention
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.26,0:47:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to get on God's right side
Dialogue: 0,0:47:56.97,0:47:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to twist His arm.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.76,0:48:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, the very \Nnature of saving faith
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.74,0:48:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the very nature of true repentance -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.86,0:48:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's blind Bartimaeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.22,0:48:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's, "Lord, I don't have \Nanything to offer."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:21.90,0:48:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that's what repentance is.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.04,0:48:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of repentance is this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.70,0:48:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that remember, we talked about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.31,0:48:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's re-thinking, but more than that,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.31,0:48:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Greek term metanoia has to do
Dialogue: 0,0:48:34.44,0:48:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with changing your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.49,0:48:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.07,0:48:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, basically, we're going along
Dialogue: 0,0:48:39.72,0:48:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're thinking we're pretty good.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.61,0:48:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we're not blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.49,0:48:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we have strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:46.56,0:48:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we have something to offer God.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.44,0:48:57.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really think - we heard \Nit today at the funeral -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.17,0:49:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people assume that they're good.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.05,0:49:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind Bartimaeus was in a position
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.16,0:49:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there was no assumption
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.78,0:49:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he had sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.48,0:49:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, repentance is really a mindset
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.63,0:49:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ is mighty
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.26,0:49:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't have anything to offer.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:27.01,0:49:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then saving faith is beholding,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.92,0:49:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's trusting Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.20,0:49:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's seeing the reality of Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:34.97,0:49:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's hearing this One can restore sight;
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.12,0:49:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this One can cure the leper;
Dialogue: 0,0:49:40.29,0:49:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this One has raised the palsied;
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.06,0:49:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's raised the dead;\NHe's calmed the storm.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.39,0:49:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, that's what I need.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.70,0:49:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's not so much,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.20,0:49:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, what can I do
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.87,0:49:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I can get to heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.72,0:49:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All it's about is in my desperation
Dialogue: 0,0:49:56.94,0:49:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my emptiness
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.25,0:50:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my bankruptcy,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.19,0:50:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just have to get ahold of Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.67,0:50:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to get His attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:05.51,0:50:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's blind Bartimaeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.90,0:50:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cried out. People told him to shut up.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.29,0:50:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he wasn't going to shut up. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.49,0:50:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because his mind had been changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.31,0:50:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.41,0:50:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may have been a day
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.84,0:50:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Jesus didn't mean anything to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:19.92,0:50:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may have been a day when
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.39,0:50:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had no idea about Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:50:23.32,0:50:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having that ability,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.49,0:50:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but somewhere along the line
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.85,0:50:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he came to learn about this Savior.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:28.71,0:50:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to learn about this One:
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.11,0:50:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can heal.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:33.34,0:50:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Word came to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.88,0:50:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:35.88,0:50:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was the very thing that Jesus said
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.79,0:50:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to those cities where most of \NHis mighty works were done.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.04,0:50:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He faulted them for not having repented
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.96,0:50:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after He did those mighty works.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.43,0:50:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, here's Bartimaeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.59,0:50:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he caught wind of those works.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:55.43,0:50:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And something happened in his mind
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.46,0:50:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and something happened in his thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.35,0:51:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wasn't thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.51,0:51:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, how can I produce a repentance
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.16,0:51:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is somehow going to \Nwork out God's favor here.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.31,0:51:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the whole idea of repentance
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.12,0:51:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is weakness.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.59,0:51:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real repentance brings us to a mindset
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.80,0:51:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of weakness; not of strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:16.88,0:51:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he recognized, I can't do a thing
Dialogue: 0,0:51:20.52,0:51:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to restore my own sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.81,0:51:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I can just cry out to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:26.38,0:51:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is my only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.11,0:51:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cry doesn't save me.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:29.90,0:51:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the cry to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:31.61,0:51:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to get to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.14,0:51:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's my only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.93,0:51:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, think about when he heard those words:
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.78,0:51:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He's calling you."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.07,0:51:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He threw off his cloak.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:44.42,0:51:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.73,0:51:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind men don't throw off their cloak.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.50,0:51:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind men are going to keep in contact
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.42,0:51:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the stuff that is precious to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.37,0:51:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I guarantee you a blind man
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.98,0:51:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have valued his cloak.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.40,0:52:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He threw it off because it \Ndidn't matter anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.46,0:52:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it wasn't like the wife
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.94,0:52:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the oxen or the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.99,0:52:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.02,0:52:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's calling me and He's my only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.12,0:52:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I can get to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.27,0:52:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care about anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.21,0:52:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to get to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.84,0:52:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:15.27,0:52:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People that talk like this guy talks,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.46,0:52:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then if you were to take a snapshot
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.40,0:52:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their life and see them \Nsurfing the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:23.98,0:52:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see them spending hours on video games
Dialogue: 0,0:52:27.28,0:52:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see them watching smut on TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:31.97,0:52:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, when you know He's my only hope,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.22,0:52:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm sick and I'm blind
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.71,0:52:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm bankrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:52:44.07,0:52:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm in trouble
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.38,0:52:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm guilty
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.38,0:52:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm a sinner before God
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.05,0:52:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to hell -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.60,0:52:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will cry out.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.03,0:52:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bartimaeus did not all of a sudden
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.20,0:52:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decide that he was going to go
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.100,0:52:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over to the other side of Jericho
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.62,0:52:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beg for awhile
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.73,0:53:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he would worry \Nabout finding Jesus later.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.42,0:53:09.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you come to the realization,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:09.86,0:53:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you do a proper spiritual inventory
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.15,0:53:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.20,0:53:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am lost and I'm going to hell
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.38,0:53:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am under God's wrath,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.96,0:53:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is not well with my soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.48,0:53:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to perish,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:23.16,0:53:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I need Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:24.69,0:53:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is my only hope and my only help.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.42,0:53:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.08,0:53:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.72,0:53:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're here in that condition,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.02,0:53:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throw off the cloak
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.86,0:53:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and run.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.44,0:53:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the throwing off of the cloak
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.13,0:53:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the running don't do you anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.03,0:53:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't look at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.18,0:53:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine him?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.12,0:53:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He threw off those things.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:53.42,0:53:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine him?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:55.47,0:53:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine watching,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.82,0:53:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here's a blind man.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.62,0:54:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had some idea of the direction
Dialogue: 0,0:54:01.65,0:54:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Jesus was in.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.01,0:54:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He might have heard Jesus even.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.15,0:54:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, but he took off.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.05,0:54:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine a blind man just running?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.22,0:54:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like he didn't care.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.84,0:54:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His one thought:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.32,0:54:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:20.34,0:54:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.83,0:54:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:24.100,0:54:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his life proved it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.15,0:54:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he did proved the \Nnature of that repentance
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.57,0:54:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of that faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.28,0:54:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, such a question, it would be
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.06,0:54:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so ridiculous to Bartimaeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.08,0:54:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you blind enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.94,0:54:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you sense your blindness enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.94,0:54:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, he was blind enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.68,0:54:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And obviously, he did sense his blindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.26,0:54:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But his focus was on that reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.02,0:55:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've got to get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.48,0:55:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to get to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:10.39,0:55:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody have anything else?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.60,0:55:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.52,0:55:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, we know that You save sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:31.85,0:55:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, we know that from beginning to end,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:36.68,0:55:40.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't love first. You love first.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:40.100,0:55:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't call first. You call first.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:48.20,0:55:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't see first. You see first.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:57.97,0:56:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being saved does not originate
Dialogue: 0,0:56:01.100,0:56:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our own minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.36,0:56:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being able to behold the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.80,0:56:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our only hope being in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.48,0:56:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We even read about this on Sunday.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.01,0:56:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a veil.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.40,0:56:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We recognize that the god of this world
Dialogue: 0,0:56:21.66,0:56:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blinds the eyes of unbelievers
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.17,0:56:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those that are perishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:26.06,0:56:30.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, have mercy and save sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.57,0:56:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, please, in this day,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:34.14,0:56:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring sweeping - Lord, sweeping salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:56:40.19,0:56:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to multitudes, we pray, Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.75,0:56:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may this be a day of salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:44.77,0:56:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May today be the day of salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.33,0:56:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, would You have mercy upon
Dialogue: 0,0:56:49.95,0:56:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the masses of humanity in our country.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.22,0:57:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, I pray for Joseph.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.17,0:57:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, I pray. I pray for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.34,0:57:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, there's no sinner beyond Your reach.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.92,0:57:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just pray that You'd have mercy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.64,0:57:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray, Lord, have mercy upon sinners,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.43,0:57:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like him.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.56,0:57:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like we were; maybe some of us are.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.12,0:57:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mercy, Lord. We pray for mercy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.33,0:57:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aside from Your mercy,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.52,0:57:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aside from Your compassion -
Dialogue: 0,0:57:30.98,0:57:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, You sent Your Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.62,0:57:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we see His tears by faith
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.55,0:57:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as articulated there for us in Luke 19.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.72,0:57:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see those tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:47.28,0:57:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, may the reality of those tears
Dialogue: 0,0:57:51.80,0:57:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be demonstrated in our presence
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.46,0:58:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:01.83,0:58:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by You sweeping many into the Kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.83,0:58:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray this in Christ's name,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:06.52,0:58:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.