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Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.63,0:00:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a tremendous privilege
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.42,0:00:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me and brother Leiter
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.98,0:00:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be here with you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.50,0:00:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tremendous privilege.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.36,0:00:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have been given sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.69,0:00:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an insurmountable or difficult task:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.13,0:00:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take an hour and preach everything
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.15,0:00:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that ought to be preached \Non a biblical church.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.81,0:00:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it would take \Nmuch longer than an hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.14,0:00:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we are going to look at \Na few things (incomplete thought).
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.37,0:00:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, well, be careful with \Nthat kind of statement.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.18,0:01:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may regret it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.71,0:01:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we are going to talk about church.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.22,0:01:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you are here tonight,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.79,0:01:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are probably here because you have
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.86,0:01:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an uneasiness or restlessness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.61,0:01:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the way things are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.10,0:01:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the spiritual \Ndecline in your country,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.90,0:01:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Europe as well as America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.56,0:01:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.24,0:01:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let me just share with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.10,0:01:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of people and a lot of movements that can give you something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.53,0:01:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are all sorts of things going on in Christianity today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.67,0:01:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like a circus offering certain aspects of Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.91,0:01:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain power, certain joy, certain life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.84,0:02:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many things, so many gimmicks, so many promises,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.41,0:02:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,healing, prosperity, life as you want it, your best life now,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.82,0:02:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolutely everything is laid before you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.15,0:02:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Jesus Christ lays before you is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.82,0:02:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the promise of eternal life, and a cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.86,0:02:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Jesus Christ lays before you is what really matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.64,0:02:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is a character conformed to his image.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.57,0:02:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The writers of the New Testament, although they speak quite frequently
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.82,0:02:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about all the blessings that God can pour out on a man,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.14,0:02:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the full counsel of Scripture tells us that the blessings of God are many,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.73,0:02:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for those who have come to know Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.92,0:03:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they have settled it in their heart
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.72,0:03:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that every blessing other than conformity to Christ is a lesser blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.63,0:03:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be like Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.02,0:03:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be conformed to his will,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.47,0:03:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just in some extravagant religious way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.78,0:03:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.72,0:03:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my personal relationship with God the Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.04,0:03:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.21,0:03:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the relationships in my life, especially the most intimate.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.89,0:03:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I bring this up because it is so very important to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.29,0:03:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was preaching several years ago in Austin, Texas.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.69,0:03:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after I finished my first sermon, this pulpit committee,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.77,0:03:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a committee in the church that is looking for a new pastor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.25,0:04:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it came up to me, and it said, "Would you be our pastor?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.16,0:04:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “What?”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.39,0:04:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, “Would you consider being our pastor?”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.26,0:04:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I looked at them and I said, “Are you crazy?”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.16,0:04:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, “Why do you say that?”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.16,0:04:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “You don’t know if I love my wife or not.”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.75,0:04:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point that I was making is: You know nothing about me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.68,0:04:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil preaches well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.09,0:04:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But true Christianity is seen in the life, the hidden life of a man, of a woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.48,0:04:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the dying to self,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.07,0:04:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the giving one’s self away in the name of Christ to God the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.63,0:04:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the power of the Holy Spirit, and giving that life to others.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.42,0:04:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hear a lot of talk today about doing everything for the glory of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.27,0:04:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.18,0:04:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a true statement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.32,0:05:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am afraid we sometimes use it to forget the Second Command.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.16,0:05:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.98,0:05:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second is to love your neighbor as yourself in sacrificial, joyful service.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.19,0:05:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the Christianity that I am talking about tonight
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.63,0:05:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not some gigantic religious show in a coliseum.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.94,0:05:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about you getting your best life now,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.17,0:05:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the car you want, the house you want or perfect health.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.80,0:05:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it's about is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.19,0:05:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's knowing God the Father and knowing Jesus Christ whom he has sent,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.59,0:05:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being conformed to his image.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.30,0:05:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What joy!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.81,0:05:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able, just think about this, to be able to love as he loves.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.63,0:06:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able to represent him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.97,0:06:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to know him. That is Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.87,0:06:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we are going to talk a bit about church.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.10,0:06:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of us have this ecclesiastical, organizational idea of church.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.63,0:06:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of buildings with steeples on top of them and crosses on top of the steeples.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.82,0:06:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of beautiful lawns.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.44,0:06:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of old men preaching very boring messages.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.15,0:06:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of all sorts of things when we think about church.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.20,0:06:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we need to understand what church truly is.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.04,0:06:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's none of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.24,0:06:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Church is not so much an organization, as it is an organism.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.90,0:06:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a living entity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.82,0:07:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a creation of God through his Son and for his Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.54,0:07:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is relational.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.85,0:07:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I want you to keep that word in the forefront of your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.90,0:07:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is relational.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.79,0:07:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Church, like your own personal life, is about a relationship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.62,0:07:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a relationship with brothers and sisters in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.66,0:07:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it is all about relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.26,0:07:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is all about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.11,0:07:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is so much that is done, dressed in religious garb,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.30,0:07:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really has so little meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.13,0:07:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has called us into a relationship with himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.91,0:07:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has done that as we are individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.55,0:07:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has done that collectively as a body,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.91,0:07:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God has called us to be in relationship with one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.48,0:08:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.44,0:08:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the first thing I want you to see is that when we talk about church,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.73,0:08:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are talking about an organism, something organic in nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.54,0:08:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there are two passages of Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.00,0:08:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are not going to spend much time there at all
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.78,0:08:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we are going to look at several things tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.34,0:08:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But just for a moment, I want you to go to Jeremiah
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.54,0:08:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want you to see the origin of the Church, its divine origin.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.78,0:08:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeremiah chapter 31, just quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.51,0:08:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if you look in verse 31 of Jeremiah 31,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.44,0:08:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.90,0:08:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.77,0:09:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.24,0:09:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.65,0:09:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My covenant which they broke,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.39,0:09:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD.”
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.28,0:09:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the first thing I want you to understand is something about the nation of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.04,0:09:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you honestly believe that everyone who came out of Egypt, led by Moses, was a believer?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.40,0:09:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.37,0:09:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a matter of fact, the great majority of them were idolaters.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.94,0:09:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were worshiping goat gods, demon gods, all sorts of things
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.50,0:09:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in the desert as they are being led around by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.32,0:09:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are looking at basically a physical nation that was called out of Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.23,0:09:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were of the blood of Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.45,0:09:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of them did not have faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.77,0:09:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why they died in the wilderness, all right?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.26,0:10:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were basically a carnal nation doing carnal things
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.46,0:10:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had to be subdued by laws and authorities and this and that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.46,0:10:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to be subdued, in a sense, by the whip in order to keep them in line.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.25,0:10:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.45,0:10:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because their hearts had not be changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.90,0:10:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I want you to think about something for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.12,0:10:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most churches today are that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.29,0:10:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Filled with a group of people whose hearts have not been changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.07,0:10:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And pastors spend a great deal of their time doing what?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.87,0:10:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trying to motivate, manipulate, push, shove, coerce,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.24,0:10:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throwing all sorts of little parties and all sorts of little gimmicks
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.28,0:11:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this and that, and so many other things
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.45,0:11:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to try to keep a group of people together in Jesus’ name.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.28,0:11:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold the power of the gospel!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.35,0:11:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not much gospel power manifested there, is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.55,0:11:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Countless people identified in this country, in my country
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.48,0:11:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some denomination or some church,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.42,0:11:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it has no power, no sway over their life whatsoever, nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.49,0:11:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The true Church is not that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.96,0:11:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your ideas of Church as a building;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.04,0:11:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an ecclesiastical, organizational structure of half hearted people attending,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.68,0:11:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having to be held together by manipulation and coercion and gimmicks,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not the Church.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.42,0:11:55.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now he is going to tell us what the Church is like.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.67,0:12:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look what he says: He says in verse 33,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.23,0:12:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.01,0:12:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,declares the LORD,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.17,0:12:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will put My laws within them, and on their heart I will write it.”
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.75,0:12:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you must understand God is not speaking here poetically.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.88,0:12:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now why do I say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.08,0:12:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because sometimes we hear such beautiful things in Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.06,0:12:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we say, “Oh, that is nice,” but we are not considering what he is saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.06,0:12:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is saying, in the Church through the coming of the Messiah,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.54,0:12:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is going to create a new people,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.41,0:12:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are not going to be a group of people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.88,0:12:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who merely have some tablets of stone that they look at and disobey.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.24,0:12:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is going to create a group of people and he is going to transform their heart
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.48,0:12:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he is going to put his will, his laws, his desires in their heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.28,0:12:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.26,0:12:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are going to be changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.35,0:13:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I use the word 'desire.'
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.79,0:13:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it can be sort of dangerous, but there is a reason for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.96,0:13:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I say he puts his laws in your heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.62,0:13:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can still have this mechanical idea
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.38,0:13:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, yes, those laws are in there and I must obey them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.32,0:13:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I say 'desires,' he is not just revealing his will to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.44,0:13:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is changing your heart so that his will is your will
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.78,0:13:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you desire to do what he desires.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.31,0:13:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why John writes in his epistle
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.52,0:13:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the commandments of God to the people of God are not burdensome.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.02,0:13:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They desire these things. Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.90,0:13:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what the Church is.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.92,0:13:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes on and he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.37,0:13:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I will put My laws within them, and on their heart I will write it;
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.23,0:13:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.09,0:14:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All throughout the Old Testament, there is this impassioned longing that we see
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.87,0:14:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the words coming out of the mouth of God
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.11,0:14:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which he is constantly saying, looking forward to the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.64,0:14:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“One day, they will be My people. I will be their God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.84,0:14:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will have a people on this earth, and I will be that people's God.”
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.10,0:14:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That time came with the coming of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.56,0:14:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through his death and resurrection; through the work of the Holy Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.59,0:14:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has created for himself a people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.57,0:14:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, they are not a people who have simply turned over a new leaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.01,0:14:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not a people who have simply decided
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.34,0:14:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they want to live a higher lifestyle.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.73,0:14:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not a people who just, one day, decided we are going to change and be better.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.64,0:14:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. They are people upon whom God has acted in his own power.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.34,0:15:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has transformed them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.27,0:15:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, are you that people?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.53,0:15:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know, I still, as we all, I struggle with many failures,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.76,0:15:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many weaknesses, many struggles in the Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.70,0:15:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is no doubt, the witness of my own, the people around me,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.96,0:15:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the people who knew me 25 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.30,0:15:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this guy is not even the same the person that I knew.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.76,0:15:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I know my desires have changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.15,0:15:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, one day just going from, "let’s go party, let’s get in a fight if we can,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.83,0:15:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let’s chase women, let’s get drunk, let’s do this,"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.16,0:15:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the very next day, "I don’t want to do all that anymore."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.40,0:15:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has happened to me?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.92,0:15:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.80,0:15:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to know him.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.99,0:16:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to please God and be pleasing to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.09,0:16:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that as a reality in your own life?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.38,0:16:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is your religion something that you are just trying to do the right thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.73,0:16:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or has Christ transformed you so that you want to know him,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.94,0:16:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to do his will, you delight to do his will?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.45,0:16:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, what has happened to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.00,0:16:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother Leiter says quite often that most people’s Christianity is basically this:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.66,0:16:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are trying to do all the good things they hate, in order to please God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.03,0:16:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.94,0:16:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christianity is when, "I want to do this."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.15,0:17:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you are not sad because you look at the will of God, and think, I have to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.04,0:17:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are sad when you look at the will of God and realize you have fallen short.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.32,0:17:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The burden doesn't come from obedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.02,0:17:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the burden comes when we see we have disobeyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.04,0:17:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.64,0:17:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are transformed. We are new creatures.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.88,0:17:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are saints of God. We are children of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.36,0:17:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are sons of the living God. We are led of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.93,0:17:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.45,0:17:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he says, “New creature,” when he says, “I will write it on their heart,”
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.63,0:17:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is not speaking metaphorically to the point where it no longer has meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.90,0:17:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is not speaking poetically so it's just some beautiful nonsense. No.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.72,0:17:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When a person is saved, they become a new creature.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.05,0:17:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what the Church is made up of.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.46,0:17:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now he says this:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.30,0:17:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.38,0:18:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me.”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.10,0:18:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not saying that in the Church there won’t be teachers or pastors,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.92,0:18:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evangelists and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.16,0:18:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what he is saying is:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.28,0:18:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people of Israel, although they saw these magnificent manifestations of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.83,0:18:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn’t understand them.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.77,0:18:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, they could see God part the water, and then go worship a goat idol.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.72,0:18:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could see fire coming down from heaven, and then make a golden calf.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.07,0:18:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn’t understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.80,0:18:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In witnessing to people—and I know many of you have had this same experience—
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.58,0:18:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you pour your heart out to someone about the grace of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.05,0:18:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don’t comprehend at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.99,0:18:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone says, “Sir, are you going to go to heaven when you die?”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.26,0:18:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, yes, I am going to go to heaven.”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.59,0:19:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Why do you think so?”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.48,0:19:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, I am a good man. I am a good man.”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.29,0:19:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you go through, for the next 20 minutes, every Scripture in the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.54,0:19:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that explains he is a wretched beast under the wrath of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.45,0:19:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says "Yes" to every one of the verses;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.11,0:19:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when you say, “Sir, are you going to go to heaven?”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.99,0:19:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Yes.”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.84,0:19:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Why?”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.48,0:19:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I am a good man.”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.12,0:19:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that is where you would be. Do you understand that?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.36,0:19:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your darkness would be to that extent and even worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.97,0:19:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what's happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.26,0:19:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This passage. He has taught you.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.74,0:19:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“They shall be taught of God.”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.76,0:19:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He himself illumined your mind and changed your heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.63,0:20:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many people walking around, especially these TV evangelists.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.53,0:20:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we ought to put most of them on a boat and just ship them somewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.87,0:20:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an island where there is no people.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.10,0:20:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are saying, “The supernatural nature of Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.04,0:20:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the supernatural this and the supernatural that.”
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.68,0:20:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Supernatural?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.78,0:20:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is more of the supernatural power of God
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.43,0:20:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manifested in the regeneration of a single heart
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.13,0:20:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than in the creation of the universe itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.10,0:20:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Supernatural; we are not marveling at what is truly supernatural.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.08,0:20:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, “Well, brother Paul, do you believe God can heal people?”
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.100,0:20:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen God heal people in the mountains where there were no doctors,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.78,0:20:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not frequently, but according to his will, his plan, his purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.93,0:20:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to tell you something, I did not get excited in comparison
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.11,0:21:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I have seen the Holy Spirit literally take a spiritually dead man and make him alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.07,0:21:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.71,0:21:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is the supernatural nature of Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.26,0:21:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but focus on what is truly supernatural and important.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.29,0:21:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he goes on and he says this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.55,0:21:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.”
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.78,0:21:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now will they all know him to the extent that Jonathan Edwards
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.49,0:21:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a Calvin or a Luther or somebody like that?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.36,0:21:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I am not even in their league.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.05,0:21:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what does this mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.95,0:21:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let’s go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.72,0:21:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, “For they will all know Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.18,0:21:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the LORD.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.57,0:21:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.50,0:21:54.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will enter into a relationship with him,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.12,0:21:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that he is the one true God,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.92,0:22:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they will have a keen awareness that by his hand he has cleansed them,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.15,0:22:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freed them from their sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.11,0:22:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will not be the smack of self-righteousness there.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.52,0:22:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will not say, "God and I have worked this out."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.29,0:22:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will have a keen awareness that God has taken care of their iniquity,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.26,0:22:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he did it all by himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.48,0:22:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, another thing. Let’s go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.92,0:22:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just jump over really quick to verse 38 of chapter 32.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.35,0:22:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God.”
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.30,0:22:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look what he says, “I will give them one heart and one way.”
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.14,0:22:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever seen these marches for Jesus, the unity marches that they have,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.71,0:23:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which all these different denominations come together,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.98,0:23:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are trying to prove to the world that there is unity between them
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.45,0:23:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when, in fact, there is very little unity at all between them.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.90,0:23:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are all marching together and singing "Kumbaya,"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.15,0:23:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are proving to the world that we are one.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.76,0:23:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not what Jesus meant, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.71,0:23:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not what Jesus meant.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.84,0:23:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bring two Christians together, two Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.73,0:23:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and although they may differ in some things,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.93,0:23:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you bring two Christians together and, my friend, you will find unity.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.68,0:23:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will find Spirit bearing witness with spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.93,0:23:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will find joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.21,0:24:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is amazing; I can sit down, for example, in an airplane in Zambia,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.12,0:24:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sit down beside a person I have never met in my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.98,0:24:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after a while pull out my Bible to kind of, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.89,0:24:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping this guy say something to me like, “What’s that?”
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.44,0:24:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I pull out my Greek New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.43,0:24:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they will look at it and go, “What is that?”
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.39,0:24:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can’t read it very well, but it really makes a great witnessing tool.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.12,0:24:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter where I am in the Greek New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.85,0:24:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read John 3:16 when they ask me to read something to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.25,0:24:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can sit down with someone I have never met,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.15,0:24:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we start talking and discover that we are both believers in Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.46,0:24:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean it is a party for the rest of the flight.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.20,0:24:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are one.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.07,0:24:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People say, "There is so much disunity in the Church."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.39,0:24:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, there is not.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.53,0:24:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a lot of disunity with a bunch of carnal people
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.69,0:25:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are goats trying to act like sheep.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.72,0:25:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.77,0:25:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you bring believers together, there will be unity.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.86,0:25:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it mean that there will never be disunity?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.27,0:25:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it doesn’t mean, because there is sin in all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.85,0:25:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean there will never be disunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.64,0:25:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean there will never be disagreements.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.57,0:25:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it means when you look at the full course of the relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.82,0:25:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a fraternal love, a unity there.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.00,0:25:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember one of the illustrations that I just love to use on this,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.84,0:25:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was traveling through the mountains years and years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.30,0:25:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a red zone that the Communists, the Maoists controlled.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.65,0:25:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were lost and everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.80,0:25:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was pitch dark and we were scared, another missionary and myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.34,0:25:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we made our way into this little village and I kind of stood on the edge of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.76,0:25:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my brother that was with me was a Peruvian.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.90,0:25:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he went in and he came back out.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.69,0:25:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, “I don’t see any military.”
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.27,0:26:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we kind of walked in, and I kind of humped over so everyone would think I was short,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.78,0:26:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we came up to this drunk and we said, [?], “Are there brothers here?”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.70,0:26:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, [?], “The old woman over there. She is one of you.”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.60,0:26:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I went over there, and I knocked on the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.99,0:26:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after a few minutes, the door kind of creaks open.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.02,0:26:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a little mud, adobe hut carved into the back of a cliff.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.67,0:26:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this little woman, she is about this big,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.72,0:26:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she opened the door with her lantern and looked.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.70,0:26:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said [?], “We are brothers.”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.52,0:26:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She knew what that meant in Spanish.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.44,0:26:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are evangelicals, we are Christian, and we need help.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.52,0:26:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she went... I will never forget that face.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.22,0:26:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she just grabbed us and pulled us in,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.38,0:26:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,took us down to the basement that they had carved out of the side of the hill there,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.40,0:26:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put us down there.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.46,0:27:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little boy came. She gave him some instructions.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.88,0:27:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the sudden he took off.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.85,0:27:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He comes back, running.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.24,0:27:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then this man shows up. He has got two chickens;
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.61,0:27:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and another little poor farmer comes up with some yucca plant
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.12,0:27:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they start preparing.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.79,0:27:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we stayed there all night.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.72,0:27:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, now they were won to the Lord by a group of Nazarene missionaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.56,0:27:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nazarenes and I could sit down and debate some issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.01,0:27:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.71,0:27:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these were people who knew Christ and knew their sins had been forgiven,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.85,0:27:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because I was a preacher in Jesus’ name, willing to risk their life.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.22,0:27:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is unity.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.54,0:28:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, theology is extremely important. It is extremely important.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.39,0:28:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'll tell you this: I will not separate and break fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.84,0:28:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with someone who disagrees with me on some things.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.84,0:28:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I will separate with people who depart from historical Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.20,0:28:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who preach another Christ and so on and so forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.08,0:28:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you see, there is a unity there.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.02,0:28:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew Christ. They rejoiced in him.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.63,0:28:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what happens when you have a church
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.61,0:28:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a church of people who have been converted;
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.39,0:28:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been regenerated by the Spirit of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.14,0:28:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will there be immaturity? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.95,0:29:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will there be problems? Live with me for a while, you will get your answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.100,0:29:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But will people be able to see there is something different about this group of people
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.35,0:29:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that something is their love?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.64,0:29:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says, “They will know, the world will know you are my disciples
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.88,0:29:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the love you have for one another.”
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.20,0:29:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he says, “I will give them one heart and one way.”
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.28,0:29:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, “that they may fear Me.”
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.80,0:29:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is something about us as Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.90,0:29:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can make a mess, but there is something that God has done to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.30,0:29:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has put his fear in our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.23,0:29:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a marriage relationship, my own, sometimes I will act like a jerk.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.90,0:29:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what that word is?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.48,0:30:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not want to acknowledge it, not want to say to my wife, “I am sorry.”
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.78,0:30:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I will walk out there and I will go into my office,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.98,0:30:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got a book to write, I got a sermon to prepare.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.100,0:30:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the Lord's there, "That's fine, you are going to be doing it on your own
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.79,0:30:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,till you get this matter straight."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.28,0:30:30.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But do you know what? There is a fear in me.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.12,0:30:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.20,0:30:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an uneasiness, an unsettledness in my heart, a tremor.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.30,0:30:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know I have got to go back and I have got to apologize
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.60,0:30:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have got to make this matter right.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.32,0:30:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you have a group of people who have been given new hearts,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.11,0:30:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that new heart, the law of God has been written.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.100,0:31:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only the law of God has been written, but he has put his fear in us
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.64,0:31:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that even when we have conflicts, disagreements and problems,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.89,0:31:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the fear of the Lord that causes us once again to humble ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.18,0:31:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to acknowledge our wrong and to work for restoration.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.18,0:31:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the Church.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.29,0:31:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want us to go for a moment...Again, I said I would have to skip around.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.58,0:31:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want us to go to Matthew chapter 28.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.78,0:31:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the great commission in verse 18,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.40,0:31:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.66,0:31:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.’”
Dialogue: 0,0:31:43.79,0:31:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh this passage!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.60,0:31:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last month, I spent like three weeks on "All authority has been given unto Me.”
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.94,0:31:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, man, it just laid me on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.25,0:32:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have very little idea what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.61,0:32:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I would encourage you to read Daniel chapter 7 and Psalms chapter 2.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.48,0:32:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such authority has been given to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.78,0:32:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has so much authority that all the kings,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.50,0:32:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all their actions and decrees are inconsequential.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.05,0:32:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't even matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.20,0:32:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is as though they didn't even exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.68,0:32:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When his kingdom showed up 2,000 years ago, everything else came to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.03,0:32:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, he's allowing the kings and the nations to still play,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.14,0:32:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though they had life and power.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.52,0:32:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they have none. He rules over all.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.97,0:32:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, but it says this,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.98,0:32:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.70,0:33:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am so glad that he did not put here, “Go therefore and preach the gospel.”
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.81,0:33:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, “Well, why, brother Paul?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.04,0:33:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, on YouTube that is all you talk about, you only have one sermon."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.50,0:33:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it is so easy...now Adolphe Monod the famous French Reformed pastor
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.54,0:33:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, “Oh, the cross of preaching the cross,”
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.51,0:33:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning that preaching the cross was such a burden because of its grandeur,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.97,0:33:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because a preacher could never preach the cross as it ought to be preached.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.42,0:33:40.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is another sense in which the preaching of the gospel
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.76,0:33:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a lot easier than making disciples.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.70,0:33:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, someone hears a preacher like me on YouTube
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.75,0:33:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you see me preach right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.14,0:33:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't know me.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.89,0:34:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or I know how to make sentences connect together.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.91,0:34:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But do you really know me?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.05,0:34:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you really know if I am a godly man?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.07,0:34:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see in preaching the gospel, I can preach, go.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.99,0:34:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can stand in front of people and, boy, look like something very, very spiritual
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.90,0:34:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then go and you never see my life. Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.18,0:34:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is so easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.22,0:34:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he says, “Go and make disciples.” And what does that mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.52,0:34:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make disciples, that means you are going, at least for a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.44,0:34:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to imitate me as I imitate Christ, to follow me as I follow Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.36,0:34:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to teach you, not only with my words,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.32,0:34:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I am going to teach you as you watch me live 24 hours a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.83,0:34:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is tough.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.94,0:34:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is part of the work of the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:58.05,0:35:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has...you know, when I first was a missionary in Peru,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.67,0:35:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just discipled, discipled and discipled.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.76,0:35:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was tough because people watched your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.22,0:35:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I will tell you something that has been even more difficult:
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.02,0:35:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My three children. To disciple them.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.16,0:35:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, you know, they are just... they can, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.68,0:35:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Dad, you said this. Why did you do this?”
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.83,0:35:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it is so humbling, but it is so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.12,0:35:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would rather be crushed so that the hypocrisy would be torn out of me
Dialogue: 0,0:35:44.03,0:35:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than to put on a mask and make everybody think I am something I am not.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.91,0:35:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, make disciples, it means that you live with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.83,0:35:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You touch people. You get involved in their life.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.65,0:36:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was evangelizing one day and boy did I have a rude awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.63,0:36:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was out there, man. I was handing out tracts.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.09,0:36:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was preaching and people were throwing the tracts at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.23,0:36:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw this guy kind of look kind of a punk rocker guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.80,0:36:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he took off kind of one direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.70,0:36:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I walked up there and put a tract on him.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.50,0:36:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Here, this is a tract of the gospel about Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.86,0:36:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turned around and he goes, “You don’t care about me.”
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.23,0:36:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he, I mean, stopped me in my tracks.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.74,0:36:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes, "Do you care enough about me to be my friend,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.21,0:36:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come to my house,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:39.02,0:36:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get to know me and my problems and my messed up life,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.95,0:36:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are you just out here winning brownie points for God?”
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.54,0:36:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caring about people.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.50,0:36:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why even be very, very careful in your evangelism.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.45,0:37:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People can recognize just superficial, I want to just put another notch on my belt.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:00.04,0:37:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at me, "I am a preacher that everybody persecutes.”
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.48,0:37:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.98,0:37:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To disciple people, you have got to enter into relationships with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:09.78,0:37:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to have a church,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.27,0:37:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are committing yourself to enter into a profound relationship with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.38,0:37:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why one of our missionaries said,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.69,0:37:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Brother Paul, we need to start a church in this area.”
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.32,0:37:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “Well, why do you feel like we need to start a church?”
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.81,0:37:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We need to start a church here because if we start this church here,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.37,0:37:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we can start this church over here,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.14,0:37:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can use it as kind of a mother or a seed bed to plant other churches over here.”
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.56,0:37:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, “Stop. You don’t plant churches so that you can plant another church.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.95,0:37:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You plant a church because you care about the people.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.49,0:37:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you have any other idea about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.16,0:37:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you end up using people to fulfill your vision.”
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.96,0:38:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, church is for these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.09,0:38:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want you to think about some of the greatest writers among the reformers,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.85,0:38:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Puritans, the early Baptists.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.61,0:38:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to realize something.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.90,0:38:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never got on an airplane.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.80,0:38:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never traveled, some of them, outside of their country.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.56,0:38:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them even outside of their town.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.69,0:38:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as they pastored, and their sermons, their writings,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.23,0:38:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their life of pouring themselves into a flock has been used to change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.23,0:38:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adolphe Monod, the guy was so smart, his head must have been this big.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.52,0:39:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could do anything at the university.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:00.37,0:39:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could do critical studies in Hebrew.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.80,0:39:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they'd get him over here, critical studies in the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.63,0:39:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then over here, history of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.72,0:39:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the guy could do everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:09.92,0:39:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they wanted him in the university so bad,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.42,0:39:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, “No, I want to go pastor this little flock.”
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.03,0:39:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the book that he wrote [?] The Farewell,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.47,0:39:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are 19 sermons that he preached on his death bed to his flock.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.32,0:39:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the last few sermons he laid on his back like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.35,0:39:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and could only look up at the ceiling
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.84,0:39:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he couldn’t even turn his head to look at the flock anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.49,0:39:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That book is priceless.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.61,0:39:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we want to do so much that we don’t do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:44.25,0:39:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes we do so much and you can discern in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.34,0:39:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man, you are all about creating a name for yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.66,0:39:57.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're all about some great thing you're going to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.53,0:40:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was preaching last year in a place and people were coming from everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.52,0:40:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really wasn’t of the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.41,0:40:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was celebritism and it stunk.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.85,0:40:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I walked over in the corner and the pastor came up to me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.34,0:40:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, “Paul, maybe you just ought to go somewhere and die,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.19,0:40:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that no one will hear your name again.”
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.78,0:40:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what he meant is, maybe you need to walk away from this entire circus
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.64,0:40:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go pastor a little flock of people and just die there,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.64,0:40:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walk away from this mess.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.22,0:40:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, here is what I want you to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.26,0:40:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am 47. I mean, I am like, I am not as old as these two guys here,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.64,0:40:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I am getting older.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.42,0:40:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not as old as him but I am getting older.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.44,0:40:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm over the hill, and I figured out when you get over the hill,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.20,0:40:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start going down a lot faster.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.52,0:41:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm getting older and I don't want to waste my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.30,0:41:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I see is that a lot of the big stuff and big plans and big ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.94,0:41:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything we have about winning the world is nothing but flesh sometimes,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.64,0:41:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we want to touch everybody, but we don’t touch anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.89,0:41:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so he says, “Make disciples.”
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.14,0:41:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he says this. Look at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.87,0:41:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Make disciples of all the nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.85,0:41:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.78,0:41:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.”
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.72,0:41:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now think about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.47,0:41:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't just say, "Teach them."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.26,0:41:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, “Teach them to obey what I have commanded you.”
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.80,0:41:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can’t teach them to obey what God has commanded you
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.65,0:42:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you are obeying what God has commanded you.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.51,0:42:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Church gives us an opportunity to live, to flesh this out,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.69,0:42:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live in obedience before other people and to be an influence with our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.60,0:42:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Church is a community of people who have professed faith in Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.48,0:42:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and confessed his Lordship and have come together to worship him,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.48,0:42:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have also come together that they might mutually encourage one another
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.94,0:43:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards the goal of conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.30,0:43:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it is amazing. I was in Peru several years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:05.24,0:43:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a young American Marine, it was just a freak accident.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.67,0:43:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had his gun and he just turned... it went off and he shot himself in the head.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.43,0:43:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he laid there in the hospital basically brain dead for three or four days
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.88,0:43:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before they pulled the plug.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.75,0:43:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I didn’t know this, but I show up to try to witness to him
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.30,0:43:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is these two Marines in full dress standing on each side of the door like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.41,0:43:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked somebody, “What is this?”
Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.47,0:43:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Marine says, “No Marine dies alone.”
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.92,0:43:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.77,0:43:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I started talking to somebody and I found out
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.69,0:43:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if a bunch of Marines are running,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.81,0:43:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first Marine arrives when the last Marine arrives.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.94,0:43:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They arrive together.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:55.95,0:43:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you are running first, and this guy is last,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.95,0:44:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don’t think about crossing that line until you get him and bring him with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.30,0:44:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you talk about an example of the Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.90,0:44:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am growing."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.89,0:44:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, what about your brother? What about your sister in Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.02,0:44:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, without a church we can’t do any of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.68,0:44:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to have a biblical church?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.52,0:44:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you want to have a biblical church
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.43,0:44:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you can say you have a biblical church?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.32,0:44:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you want to have a biblical church so that, you know, I mean...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.39,0:44:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you can start a bunch of biblical churches?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.37,0:44:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or do you just want to honor God and love people,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.38,0:44:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether anything happens or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.10,0:45:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it goes on, and I want us to go for a moment just to Ephesians four.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:05.96,0:45:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk about leadership for a moment, chapter four.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.64,0:45:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaking of Christ in verse 11,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:14.22,0:45:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:16.78,0:45:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.29,0:45:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the equipping of the saints for the work of service,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.27,0:45:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the building up of the body of Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.46,0:45:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this is both a beautiful text and a very dangerous text.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.24,0:45:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:38.56,0:45:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has given gifted men to the Church to do what? To equip the saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.21,0:45:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of the time when this is preached,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.30,0:45:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is preached in a militant sort of way.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.95,0:45:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.11,0:45:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is preached to the..."Look, in our church, man, we have got to get going,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.93,0:45:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have got to get doing stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.51,0:46:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I train you so that you can go out and do the ministry,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.62,0:46:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that ministry is winning people and making this church grow."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.76,0:46:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what am I doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.72,0:46:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am turning this thing back again into a factory,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:13.70,0:46:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a place where the saints come to labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.97,0:46:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.48,0:46:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are a worker in the beehive, in the anthill.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.63,0:46:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We have got to go. We have got to grow. We have got to build.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.57,0:46:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have got to do. I train you, you go."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.92,0:46:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People have asked me several times today,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.35,0:46:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how is it that some churches start out wanting to be biblical
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.61,0:46:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then eventually they just kind of go the way of all other churches?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.65,0:46:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:52.18,0:47:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They turn church life into almost some kind of a factory, a work house.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.32,0:47:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now are we to do works of service?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:03.49,0:47:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We absolutely are to do works of service.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.11,0:47:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want you to look at this in a little bit different way.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:10.06,0:47:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has given us gifted men for the equipping of the saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.78,0:47:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the equipping of the saints just doesn't mean so that they can go out and work
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.63,0:47:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring in more people.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.51,0:47:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The equipping ot the saints means to prepare them, to grow them to maturity,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.26,0:47:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help them be able to enter in strongly into a personal devotional life,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.79,0:47:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a personal walk with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:43.56,0:47:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just about training them to go out to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.38,0:47:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's training them so that they can be something.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.20,0:47:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be like Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.77,0:47:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also this equipping is for the building up of the body of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.43,0:48:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, of course, that includes evangelism.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.67,0:48:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I need to equip you, not to just go out and win somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.70,0:48:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring them in and they remain just as immature as the rest of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.73,0:48:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to equip you to be able to minister to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.82,0:48:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To minister to the body also, to help us grow into maturity.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.62,0:48:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to equip husbands to do what? To minister to their wives.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.50,0:48:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to equip fathers to do what? To minister to their children.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.70,0:48:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to equip women to minister to their husbands and their children.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.41,0:48:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see how we will just take a verse and automatically assume this is what it means?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.35,0:48:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get them all equipped so they can go out there and do a bunch of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.02,0:48:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get them equipped so that they can be like Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.22,0:49:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,minister to one another, and witness to the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.03,0:49:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not in a machine, cog in a wheel, factory sense of a beehive sort of thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.76,0:49:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an anthill where everyone goes out, gathers and comes back in.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.58,0:49:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, again, look at what we are talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.73,0:49:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationships, loving one another, caring about one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.43,0:49:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not so concerned about coming across the line first,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.65,0:49:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but coming across the line with our other brothers and sisters in Christ as a church.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.30,0:49:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he goes on and he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.30,0:49:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For the equipping of the saints for the work of service,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.85,0:49:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the building up of the body of Christ.”
Dialogue: 0,0:49:46.78,0:49:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, you can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.96,0:49:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Until we all attain to the unity of the faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.54,0:49:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.83,0:50:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.”
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.13,0:50:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be a part of a church is to make a commitment to be biblically,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.89,0:50:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,practically concerned for the other people in that body,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.47,0:50:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they might become everything that God desires for them to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.90,0:50:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, let’s go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:28.89,0:50:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want us to go now to 2 Timothy chapter three.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.50,0:50:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Church, its doctrine, its practices
Dialogue: 0,0:50:42.50,0:50:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must be founded upon the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.61,0:50:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he says here, “That from childhood you have known the sacred writings
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.87,0:50:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.49,0:51:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through faith which is in Christ Jesus.“
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.95,0:51:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does a person come to know the Lord?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.14,0:51:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through the sacred writings, through Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.32,0:51:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me share with you. We will maybe talk about this tomorrow about evangelism,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.10,0:51:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I have seen recently people come to know the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.25,0:51:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as a result of a one time encounter or witnessing through a tract.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.60,0:51:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen people come to the Lord after eight months of Bible study,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.32,0:51:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after eight months of the study in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.69,0:51:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My brother-in-law, John Green, from England is a great evangelist.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.24,0:51:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn’t preach. He shouldn’t preach.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.62,0:51:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as far as one on one dealing with people...
Dialogue: 0,0:51:58.47,0:52:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he just recently brought a guy to my office
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.18,0:52:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he had been dealing with for about eight months,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.49,0:52:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bible study after Bible study,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.68,0:52:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going through the Scripture, going through the Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.62,0:52:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to me: Preach on the streets? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.07,0:52:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Witness to people, tracts? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.33,0:52:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever thought about entering into a relationship with some of these people?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.80,0:52:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inviting to meet them at a coffee shop once a week, twice a week,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.36,0:52:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going through Scripture, studying Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.36,0:52:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just hit and miss, like a sniper with a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.27,0:52:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving them one shot to come to know the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.62,0:52:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but maybe saying, “I am going to pour my life into that person.”
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.22,0:52:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:56.29,0:52:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.72,0:53:04.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.85,0:53:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in seminary several years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:08.38,0:53:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my professor, he stood in front of the class one day
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.77,0:53:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he goes, “Sh... sh, listen.”
Dialogue: 0,0:53:21.96,0:53:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“What?”
Dialogue: 0,0:53:23.13,0:53:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Listen. I hear footsteps.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.50,0:53:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. They are the footsteps of Aristotle walking through these halls
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.52,0:53:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are louder than the footsteps of the apostles.”
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.45,0:53:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point he was making was,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.76,0:53:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much of what we were doing had more to do with Greek philosophy
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.38,0:53:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it did with the New Testament, saying it was wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.76,0:54:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to know something, not only walking through church,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:02.64,0:54:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but walking through your mind and your heart is psychology, sociology,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.62,0:54:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anthropology, doctrines of this age, and they will destroy you.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:24.39,0:54:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do not need to augment the Scriptures with the social sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:54:30.08,0:54:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to have a church.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:32.80,0:54:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A church is founded upon the Word of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.80,0:54:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it needs no help from any outside source.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.73,0:54:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will give you an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.29,0:54:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to teach on, right now, on the father's responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.39,0:54:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be the primary educator in the life of his child,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.16,0:55:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of you would be going... because that is not practiced here.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:04.83,0:55:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.34,0:55:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or if I began to teach on the biblical submission of the wife to the husband,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.64,0:55:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of you women would probably grow horns and claws
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.04,0:55:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attack me right now, because that is not practiced here.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.13,0:55:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hated. It is despised.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:25.24,0:55:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years and years and years of training, and all the dark arts you have received.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:34.20,0:55:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You went to preschool. They did not teach you Psalms one.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:40.47,0:55:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They taught you the ways of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.00,0:55:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You went to grade school, they taught you all the doctrines of this age.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.86,0:55:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You went to high school and they did the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.80,0:55:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a child, every time you turned on the television set,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:53.99,0:55:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they taught you in a manner completely contrary to Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:58.57,0:56:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now you wonder why it is so difficult to live the Christian life?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.45,0:56:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.66,0:56:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are things that Scripture teaches that if I taught them right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:14.21,0:56:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe some of you would rise up in anger and just jump right through that window
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.62,0:56:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or throw me through that window,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:22.56,0:56:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can’t even begin to address the issue
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.94,0:56:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you have been taught the contrary over and over and over.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.36,0:56:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not bring those sciences into the Church
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.74,0:56:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because social sciences are not sciences by the pure definition of science.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.17,0:56:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And do not bring something into the Church whose major theories change
Dialogue: 0,0:56:46.84,0:56:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about once ever three years.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.29,0:56:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are to found the Church upon the Scriptures,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.43,0:57:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Church and the Scriptures need no outside help.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:00.51,0:57:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me give you a perfect example of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.49,0:57:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go to a Christian counselor who is also a psychologist
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.55,0:57:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you say, “I need some counseling.” He goes, “Ok.”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:17.12,0:57:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You walk in.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.77,0:57:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, “Now, before we get started, I understand you are a Christian psychologist.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.03,0:57:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is your basis of authority?”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.43,0:57:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that is a proper question in debate, apologetics, secular philosophy, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.38,0:57:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the basis of your authority?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:36.21,0:57:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you are going to start telling me things.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.80,0:57:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the basis of your authority?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.85,0:57:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you say, “Well, the Bible.”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.10,0:57:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go, “What are all these other books?”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:47.90,0:57:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, I just... you know, the truth of Scripture, but all truth is God’s truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:54.41,0:57:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the truth we also find in these books are true, too.”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.93,0:58:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, I got a problem.”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.08,0:58:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, what is your problem?”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:03.51,0:58:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, I see there Freud, Rogers and Skinner,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:10.99,0:58:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three main guys in the West with regard to psychology.”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.38,0:58:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Yes, so?”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.87,0:58:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, Freud said that Rogers and Skinner were idiots.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.96,0:58:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Rogers and Skinner said that Freud was a pervert.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.72,0:58:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Skinner said Rogers didn’t know what he was talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.91,0:58:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything Rogers wrote contradicted Skinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:34.69,0:58:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now here's my question:
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.32,0:58:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If all three of them contradict each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:40.57,0:58:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all three of them contradict the Bible, who is the authority?”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:46.19,0:58:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes, “Well, I choose..you know, the Bible, of course, is the authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.13,0:58:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I choose out of these men what's true”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.22,0:58:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“So now you are the authority.”
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.43,0:59:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see the problem?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:00.54,0:59:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one authority and it is Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:03.04,0:59:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they speak not according to the Law and the Prophets, there is no light in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.54,0:59:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it has become the religion of the age
Dialogue: 0,0:59:18.28,0:59:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the greatest hindrances to biblical church, a great hindrance.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.83,0:59:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I realize that I may have made people mad
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.07,0:59:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I did so by my attitude I apologize,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.66,0:59:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what I said, I do not apologize for. It is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.54,0:59:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Churches today are overrun with the ideas of secular anthropology,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.37,0:59:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,secular psychology and secular sociology.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.84,0:59:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, don’t think you are going to have a biblical church
Dialogue: 0,0:59:52.38,0:59:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by purging that out of your evangelism.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:57.15,1:00:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to purge it out of your marriage, your idea of man, your idea of truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:06.64,1:00:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to purge it out of everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:09.77,1:00:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God’s Word is true.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:13.22,1:00:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if something does not line up with God’s Word, it is not true
Dialogue: 0,1:00:16.98,1:00:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not additional truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.64,1:00:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:22.59,1:00:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you, let me ask you a question, you would possibly say,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:26.100,1:00:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Yes, brother Paul, I believe in the inspiration of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.89,1:00:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a conservative Christian. I believe in the inspiration of Scripture;
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.16,1:00:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Scripture was God breathed, that it is infallible, inerrant;
Dialogue: 0,1:00:40.10,1:00:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it is a faithful communication of God's truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:43.95,1:00:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok. You believe in the inspiration of Scripture?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.91,1:00:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have only won half the battle.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:50.99,1:00:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is the next question:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:52.61,1:00:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But do you believe in the sufficiency of Scripture?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:58.02,1:01:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe that the Scripture is sufficient
Dialogue: 0,1:01:03.72,1:01:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make the man of God adequate for every good work
Dialogue: 0,1:01:08.30,1:01:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or does the man of God also need Freud, Skinner, Rogers and everything else
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.53,1:01:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to counsel God’s people, in order to teach God's people,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:18.70,1:01:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to train God’s people?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.42,1:01:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is what Scripture is saying.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.85,1:01:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:30.70,1:01:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
Dialogue: 0,1:01:34.64,1:01:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:41.35,1:01:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every good work that needs to be done in the body, every good work,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.76,1:01:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Scripture can adequately prepare us for that.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:50.56,1:01:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bible says in 2 Peter chapter one,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.26,1:02:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that we need for life and godliness has been granted to us.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:02.44,1:02:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything we need to direct our marriages have been granted to us in this book.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.98,1:02:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything we need to raise our children have been granted to us in this book.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:12.93,1:02:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is found there. It is.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:19.20,1:02:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have to make a decision.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:21.47,1:02:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you want a biblical church, or do you want a halfway biblical church?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:28.38,1:02:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no, like the philosopher said,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.81,1:02:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens?”
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.65,1:02:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does Christianity have to do with all these doctrines of the age
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.26,1:02:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that give no light and bring no blessing
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.49,1:02:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kill all fruitfulness in the life of a person?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:51.34,1:02:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want to go to one other thing and then we will bring this to a close,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.74,1:03:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I know I have gone on very long.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:01.99,1:03:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s just look for a moment at body life.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:06.14,1:03:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want us to go to chapter twelve of the book of Romans, verse 3,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.31,1:03:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For through the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you
Dialogue: 0,1:03:17.89,1:03:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.48,1:03:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to think so as to have sound judgment,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:24.35,1:03:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.”
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.24,1:03:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen. As you grow in your Christian walk,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:34.76,1:03:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are going to come across true, honest believers
Dialogue: 0,1:03:39.37,1:03:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are not quite as mature, that are rather problematic.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:44.56,1:03:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to constantly be asking yourself this question.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:47.30,1:03:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I have that I have not received,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:49.62,1:03:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I have received it, why do I boast?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.51,1:03:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who made you what you are?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:55.85,1:03:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By God’s grace you have been saved.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.45,1:04:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By God's grace, a work of sanctification continues in you.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.63,1:04:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no room for boasting in the Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:06.69,1:04:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is no room for comparison of setting one saint against another.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:14.94,1:04:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember one time a woman who had done a great deal of damage
Dialogue: 0,1:04:20.28,1:04:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with her wickedness in the Church,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:22.77,1:04:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one morning she came just running down the aisle.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.18,1:04:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was preaching, and she was weeping,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:29.85,1:04:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she just fell on the steps of the platform
Dialogue: 0,1:04:33.16,1:04:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was crying out to God for forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:35.88,1:04:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I looked up and I saw the faces of the people in that crowd.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:40.02,1:04:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I mean, they were like, unbelieving, unforgiving.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:50.13,1:04:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The woman had done some bad things.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:53.86,1:05:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went down and I put my hand on her shoulder and I prayed for her.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:00.80,1:05:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afterwards, some people came up to me and they said,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:05.55,1:05:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How could you touch that woman?”
Dialogue: 0,1:05:09.52,1:05:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, “Because if she doesn’t get forgiven, I have to go to hell too.”
Dialogue: 0,1:05:15.43,1:05:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the point?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.28,1:05:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mercy...you know,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:20.14,1:05:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you need evidence that we are not perfected at the moment of our conversion,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:27.30,1:05:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you need evidence of that,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:29.56,1:05:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then just listen to this one statement by Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:33.77,1:05:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.03,1:05:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That shames me, that verse; and I will tell you why.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:43.17,1:05:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man like me who has received such mercy,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:47.55,1:05:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to be told to be merciful?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:51.82,1:05:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to be reminded to be merciful?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:54.51,1:05:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the mercy I have received,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:56.34,1:05:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the things I have done and been forgiven.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:58.96,1:06:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to be reminded to be merciful? That is pathetic.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.27,1:06:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so body life is, again, built around humility.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:14.93,1:06:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is built around a mercy.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:17.27,1:06:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's built around thinking more of others.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:20.96,1:06:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says: "For just as we have many members in one body
Dialogue: 0,1:06:24.50,1:06:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the members do not have the same function,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:28.61,1:06:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:31.68,1:06:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and individually members one of another."
Dialogue: 0,1:06:34.61,1:06:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, In 1 Corinthians, Paul deals with this in greater length
Dialogue: 0,1:06:41.54,1:06:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I didn’t want to go there
Dialogue: 0,1:06:42.71,1:06:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I didn’t want to spend the entire night having you just sitting here.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:54.64,1:06:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I look at my wife
Dialogue: 0,1:06:59.36,1:07:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, you know, men are really bad in that we begin to think at times
Dialogue: 0,1:07:04.78,1:07:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our wives are an extension of us,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:07.81,1:07:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our children are an extension of us.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:11.36,1:07:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forget that they are persons in their own right.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:17.70,1:07:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will be things between our wives and Christ that we know not of.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:23.41,1:07:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But sometimes I sit there and I try to remember this:
Dialogue: 0,1:07:27.75,1:07:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is God's daughter.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:32.47,1:07:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I don’t know if any of you have daughters.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:35.34,1:07:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have a little daughter.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.22,1:07:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know where my Christianity would go if somebody tried to hurt her,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:44.40,1:07:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I would do everything in my power to stop them.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:48.57,1:07:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, If you really don't want to be my friend,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:53.96,1:07:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then do something bad to my daughter.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:58.34,1:08:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't even imagine; someone would have to restrain me
Dialogue: 0,1:08:01.42,1:08:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if somebody did something to my daughter.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:04.27,1:08:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I always try to remember my wife in that context with her Father.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:11.29,1:08:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is God’s daughter.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:15.68,1:08:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to mess with her?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:19.03,1:08:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to hurt her?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:21.44,1:08:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I being evil can love my daughter so much
Dialogue: 0,1:08:24.61,1:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would throw myself in front of a train for her,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:27.01,1:08:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or fight any man on the face of the earth at least for two seconds
Dialogue: 0,1:08:31.13,1:08:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before he knocks me out,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:34.52,1:08:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am I going to suppose that I want to deal with God in that way,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.78,1:08:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treating harshly his daughter?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:40.48,1:08:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now let’s take that farther.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:42.48,1:08:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, C S Lewis said this one time and I can’t quote him directly,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:48.19,1:08:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but basically he said this, “There are no common people.”
Dialogue: 0,1:08:53.51,1:09:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every person you meet will either be, one day, a monster in the bowels of hell
Dialogue: 0,1:09:05.84,1:09:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or will be a creature so splendid and glorious
Dialogue: 0,1:09:10.61,1:09:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you could see them now in that future state,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:13.80,1:09:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would fall down on your face and have a tendency to worship them.”
Dialogue: 0,1:09:18.40,1:09:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, now I want you to think that about your brother in Christ for a moment,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:22.83,1:09:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your sister in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:24.07,1:09:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't deal with this person in a harsh manner.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:30.37,1:09:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realize what they are.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:32.92,1:09:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realize what has been paid for them.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:36.38,1:09:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realize what they are going to become.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:39.41,1:09:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realize the relationship they have with God,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:44.04,1:09:46.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you will begin to treat them differently.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:47.00,1:09:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,1:09:48.29,1:09:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not just some common little believer who attends church.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:55.13,1:10:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are God’s and one day they will be more glorious
Dialogue: 0,1:10:00.50,1:10:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than anyone could even imagine.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:06.95,1:10:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is church.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:10.05,1:10:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes on and he says that we are members.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:16.84,1:10:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am told that I am one with my wife
Dialogue: 0,1:10:19.68,1:10:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that only an insane man tears at his own flesh.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:24.92,1:10:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only an insane man practices self mutilation, I mean, we all now that.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:31.10,1:10:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see a man on the side of the street,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:33.89,1:10:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he is ripping his arm off,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:35.30,1:10:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don’t say, “Hey, how is it going?”
Dialogue: 0,1:10:38.01,1:10:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you say, “That is a very problemed person.”
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.52,1:10:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, now, to attack my wife is insanity, the worst form, to rip at her.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:52.52,1:10:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother and sister in Christ, same thing, members.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:59.30,1:11:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just remember this:
Dialogue: 0,1:11:00.56,1:11:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are not just ripping at one of your members.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:05.48,1:11:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are ripping at one of Christ’s members, part of his body.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:11.63,1:11:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Church in Corinth was sternly warned that anyone destroys the body,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:16.71,1:11:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God will destroy them.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:20.87,1:11:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you need to have a heightened view of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:24.27,1:11:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have heard that over and over.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:25.57,1:11:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to have a heightened view of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:27.91,1:11:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's true. Do you know what else though?
Dialogue: 0,1:11:29.75,1:11:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to have a heightened view of other believers;
Dialogue: 0,1:11:38.93,1:11:44.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what they are, what they will be, what was paid for them.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:44.16,1:11:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are members.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:46.05,1:11:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, gosh, I can do this in America,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:48.98,1:11:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here in Europe you guys are a lot more civilized.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:54.56,1:11:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am going to do this anyways.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:56.22,1:11:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s see. Who has got tennis shoes on?
Dialogue: 0,1:11:59.36,1:12:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who wants to volunteer? Who is really brave? Is anybody brave?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:03.73,1:12:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t need tennis shoes, you can do it in socks.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:06.27,1:12:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, stand up.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:08.12,1:12:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, really, guys, if I am out of line, just realize I am an American,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:11.61,1:12:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am from the South. I have no culture, ok?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:15.17,1:12:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I want you to run over to that rail as fast as you can, and then run back.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:23.68,1:12:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As fast as you can.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:25.79,1:12:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:28.93,1:12:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ooh, I should have got tennis shoes on him. He almost went out the window.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:33.07,1:12:38.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, now I want you to grab one foot like this,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:39.00,1:12:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want you to run over there half way, and then come back.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:44.04,1:12:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Halfway? yeah, just half way. We don't want you going out the window.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:48.15,1:12:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok. Slower, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:51.87,1:12:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Now grab this foot like this,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:55.62,1:12:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grab the other one and pull it back.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:58.22,1:12:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:59.51,1:13:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look. I removed one member and he could not move as fast,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:07.59,1:13:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as quickly and definitely he wasn’t as graceful.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:11.32,1:13:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I removed one member.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:13.22,1:13:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remove two members and I incapacitated him completely.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:18.23,1:13:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He couldn't even walk.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:21.06,1:13:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, do you think every member in the body of Christ is important?
Dialogue: 0,1:13:27.78,1:13:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not only an encouragement for every saint
Dialogue: 0,1:13:31.95,1:13:36.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come to understand their giftedness and their part in the body of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:36.20,1:13:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is also necessary for us to appreciate every saint
Dialogue: 0,1:13:41.13,1:13:45.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to encourage them to be a part of the body, because we need them.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:46.00,1:13:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if you tell saints, “Look. We need you to minister according to your gifts.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:54.42,1:13:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need you to be a part of this body because, man, we are out to do this.”
Dialogue: 0,1:13:59.66,1:14:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, that is mechanical.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:02.88,1:14:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just want you to be part of the factory.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:05.65,1:14:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you say, “We need you in this body to minister to your gifts
Dialogue: 0,1:14:11.08,1:14:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we as a body need you.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:15.75,1:14:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need your giftedness.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:17.01,1:14:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need what God has done in your life.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:19.03,1:14:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need you as a person. We need you.”
Dialogue: 0,1:14:21.82,1:14:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is church, you see, that is church;
Dialogue: 0,1:14:26.80,1:14:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are members of one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:29.51,1:14:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he goes on and he says this...
Dialogue: 0,1:14:34.20,1:14:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to just run down to nine because of the lack of time.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:39.91,1:14:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Let love be without hypocrisy.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:42.31,1:14:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:45.21,1:14:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be devoted to one another."
Dialogue: 0,1:14:48.43,1:14:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you want to have a church?
Dialogue: 0,1:14:51.17,1:14:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you willing to be devoted to one another?
Dialogue: 0,1:14:54.74,1:14:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not talking about showing up on Sunday,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:58.42,1:15:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to a sermon and running away.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:03.94,1:15:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am talking about actually entering into relationships.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:07.61,1:15:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, Christianity, especially now in reformed circles,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:12.69,1:15:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in many ways has become like almost going to the theater.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:18.67,1:15:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People got their favourite preacher,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:21.99,1:15:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their favorite worship, and so they go in
Dialogue: 0,1:15:25.57,1:15:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they take their seat in the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:29.28,1:15:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ought to get a thing with a popcorn holder
Dialogue: 0,1:15:32.12,1:15:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a place where you can put your Coke to watch your favorite preacher,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:37.55,1:15:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to watch your favorite worship guy, and then to say good bye.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:42.81,1:15:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best part is, it's free.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:46.35,1:15:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless you're in a baptist church and then they make you pay a tithe.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:51.55,1:15:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's free.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:53.07,1:15:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not church.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:54.21,1:15:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear ministers say all the time,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:55.95,1:15:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Bible says you shall not forsake the assembling of yourselves together.”
Dialogue: 0,1:15:58.96,1:16:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what he is saying is,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:00.06,1:16:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Listen, you need to come hear me preach.”
Dialogue: 0,1:16:02.58,1:16:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what it is saying is you don’t forsake the assembling of yourselves together
Dialogue: 0,1:16:05.92,1:16:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you can minister to one another,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:07.72,1:16:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exhort one another, encourage one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:10.16,1:16:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why, at least, there is less obstacles in doing this sort of thing in a small fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:21.91,1:16:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the fellowship grows larger, to either,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:25.58,1:16:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the members that are in that fellowship that are from a certain part of town,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:29.45,1:16:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,send them over there to start another church,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:31.31,1:16:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least break this thing up in some sort of house churches and things like that,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:35.74,1:16:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you can actually get involved in ministering to one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:39.50,1:16:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing that is very important.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:41.39,1:16:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was preaching down in a place in Alabama a few weeks ago
Dialogue: 0,1:16:46.81,1:16:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a group of people in Tharptown, Alabama.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:49.89,1:16:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just love these people, they are just wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:52.48,1:16:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was preaching, and it was going a little bit long.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:58.38,1:17:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you can’t believe that, but it was going a little bit long
Dialogue: 0,1:17:01.53,1:17:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, “Now, stop that.”
Dialogue: 0,1:17:04.25,1:17:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all kind of looked up. I said, “I know what you are thinking.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:07.19,1:17:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are all thinking about leaving here and going to El Rancho.”
Dialogue: 0,1:17:10.10,1:17:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,El Rancho is the most favorite Mexican restaurant there near the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:16.01,1:17:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a matter of fact, it is the only restaurant in the whole entire town.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:20.84,1:17:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, “I know what you are doing.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:23.07,1:17:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not thinking about church anymore,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:24.95,1:17:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're thinking about going to El Rancho."
Dialogue: 0,1:17:27.95,1:17:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were like, you know, all feeling guilty.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:31.31,1:17:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I said that because I wanted to teach them something.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:33.72,1:17:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Now stop. Ask yourself right now. Are you doing church?"
Dialogue: 0,1:17:43.66,1:17:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "I want you to look at something a little bit different.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:47.11,1:17:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, you are sitting under the preaching of the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:50.93,1:17:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have worshiped collectively and we have prayed collectively.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:54.77,1:17:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you think you have done something spiritual,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:57.72,1:18:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you are going to leave and you are going to go to El Rancho
Dialogue: 0,1:18:01.60,1:18:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do something not so spiritual.”
Dialogue: 0,1:18:05.19,1:18:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “Actually, the way you need to look at it is,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:08.45,1:18:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are leaving here to go to church.”
Dialogue: 0,1:18:13.00,1:18:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are like, “Well, what do you mean?”
Dialogue: 0,1:18:14.75,1:18:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “Now, if you go there and talk about your favorite football team or something,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.58,1:18:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not necessarily.”
Dialogue: 0,1:18:20.35,1:18:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “But do you realize, you are not talking to each other right now.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:24.61,1:18:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are not ministering to one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:26.96,1:18:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are listening to a sermon, which is necessary,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:29.68,1:18:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have worshiped collectively and prayed collectively,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:32.29,1:18:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is all necessary and good and it is part of church.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:34.83,1:18:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what do you say now that as soon as I dismiss this,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:38.38,1:18:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we all go over to El Rancho and have church?”
Dialogue: 0,1:18:44.39,1:18:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go over there, sit down at a table with a fellow believer,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:51.71,1:18:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk to them, get to know them,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:54.44,1:19:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find out what is going on in their life, eat some chips. God is good.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:01.56,1:19:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just get to know one another,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:04.51,1:19:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to love one another, to bless one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:08.33,1:19:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, their whole idea of church revolved around coming into that place,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:12.60,1:19:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worshiping collectively, listening to a Bible study and then leaving.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:18.26,1:19:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not Church.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:19.61,1:19:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a very essential part of Church.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:22.51,1:19:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But see, there you go again just identifying it with a service, a meeting, a meeting place.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:29.07,1:19:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is you collectively caring for one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:33.26,1:19:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a pastor down in Argentina, and he had grown the church to about 600,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:38.79,1:19:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is the language he used.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:40.19,1:19:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, “Because I had grown the church to 600.”
Dialogue: 0,1:19:43.01,1:19:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, “I was miserable.”
Dialogue: 0,1:19:45.03,1:19:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, “Finally I came under such... I didn’t even know why.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:49.40,1:19:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just knew something was wrong; knew something was terribly wrong.”
Dialogue: 0,1:19:52.11,1:19:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he set aside time for prayer and fasting, and studying the Scriptures,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:56.83,1:20:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just seemed that the Lord impressed upon his heart through the study of Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:00.88,1:20:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everything he had built was just hay, wood and stubble,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:06.34,1:20:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he needed to start again.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:07.69,1:20:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is a really personable guy, a really great speaker, knew how to do things,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:12.42,1:20:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean people were coming to that church in the droves.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:15.39,1:20:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God was saying...
Dialogue: 0,1:20:18.20,1:20:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is what he did.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:19.74,1:20:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next Sunday, you know, they got the big worship service and everything,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:25.27,1:20:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the music director goes, “And now, pastor Ortiz,” let’s say,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:30.50,1:20:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“is going to come and give us the Word of God.”
Dialogue: 0,1:20:33.28,1:20:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he got up and he walked over there,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:35.35,1:20:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he goes, “Love one another as Jesus loved you.”
Dialogue: 0,1:20:48.55,1:20:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he sat down.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:50.08,1:20:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the music director hopped up
Dialogue: 0,1:20:51.95,1:20:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, “We will have another song now before the main sermon.”
Dialogue: 0,1:20:55.91,1:21:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he sings another song and then, “Now our pastor will come and...”
Dialogue: 0,1:21:00.20,1:21:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes, “No, really. Love one another as Christ loved you.”
Dialogue: 0,1:21:10.36,1:21:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said he did that for six weeks.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:13.73,1:21:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said on the sixth week, two of the deacons sitting in the front pew;
Dialogue: 0,1:21:20.60,1:21:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one in the front pew, the other one in the second pew;
Dialogue: 0,1:21:22.70,1:21:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one in the front pew turned around,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:24.66,1:21:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, “As soon as I got through saying, ‘Love one another,’
Dialogue: 0,1:21:27.81,1:21:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deacon turned around and goes, ‘Hey,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:31.85,1:21:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I know what he is trying to tell us.’”
Dialogue: 0,1:21:35.99,1:21:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened was they started serving one another,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:40.34,1:21:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caring for one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:41.85,1:21:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Spirit of God began to work.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:45.71,1:21:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The deacons started searching out the widows in the church who were alone.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:50.61,1:21:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, just all kinds of things. Do you see?
Dialogue: 0,1:21:57.37,1:22:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is church. That is church.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:01.67,1:22:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he goes on and says, “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love;
Dialogue: 0,1:22:11.32,1:22:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give preference to one another in honor.”
Dialogue: 0,1:22:16.07,1:22:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy. We are not a people who know much about honor.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:21.76,1:22:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In America, we pride ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:24.60,1:22:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We don’t have a king and we are never going to have a king.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:28.58,1:22:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don’t care who you think you are.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:31.14,1:22:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am just as good as you are."
Dialogue: 0,1:22:34.06,1:22:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's our mentality.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:35.55,1:22:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Independent spirit - I bow my head to no one.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:41.19,1:22:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not Christian.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:46.49,1:22:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Give preference to one another in honor,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:49.96,1:22:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.”
Dialogue: 0,1:22:55.48,1:22:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look. But this lagging behind, look what it is in.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:59.46,1:23:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't lag behind in being devoted to one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:02.45,1:23:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't lag behind in giving preference to one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:06.83,1:23:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:09.58,1:23:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devoted to prayer,” for your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:14.16,1:23:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.”
Dialogue: 0,1:23:18.82,1:23:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you do that? Do you practice hospitality?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:23.06,1:23:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Invite people into your home, feed them?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:30.13,1:23:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call over other believers?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:32.12,1:23:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, come on over to my house tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:35.75,1:23:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to put a pot of stew on and we'll just talk about the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:39.32,1:23:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you open your home?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:40.45,1:23:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know it is one of the qualifications of an elder?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:43.98,1:23:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has to be hospitable. He has to open up his home.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:47.85,1:23:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if he doesn’t, he doesn’t qualify.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:49.89,1:23:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care if he is the best teacher on the face of the earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:54.40,1:23:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see?
Dialogue: 0,1:23:55.18,1:23:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can say, “Oh, we can look past that, because he is a great Bible teacher."
Dialogue: 0,1:23:58.74,1:24:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, you can’t.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:03.75,1:24:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.”
Dialogue: 0,1:24:06.78,1:24:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want you to just think about this for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:12.28,1:24:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A guy says... I will put this in the context of marriage;
Dialogue: 0,1:24:17.73,1:24:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A guy says, “I can’t love my wife.”
Dialogue: 0,1:24:21.40,1:24:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is a Christian. He is in the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:23.68,1:24:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He comes to the pastor and he says, “I can’t love my wife.”
Dialogue: 0,1:24:28.73,1:24:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok. You can't love her as a wife.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:31.17,1:24:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,1:24:32.68,1:24:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you love her as a fellow believer?
Dialogue: 0,1:24:38.39,1:24:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,1:24:40.41,1:24:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you love her as a lost person?
Dialogue: 0,1:24:45.46,1:24:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,1:24:47.26,1:24:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you love her as an enemy who persecutes you and curses you?
Dialogue: 0,1:24:51.33,1:24:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,1:24:52.34,1:24:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ has commanded you to love her in all those ways.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:55.71,1:24:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, you are not just called to love your brother.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:59.70,1:25:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are called to love your enemy who persecutes you and curses you
Dialogue: 0,1:25:03.80,1:25:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wants your eternal condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:06.45,1:25:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you are called to love that guy, most certainly you can love your brother.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:13.79,1:25:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see that?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:28.76,1:25:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know, honestly, what my goal is in life?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:33.27,1:25:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I kind of have a little... I figured I wasn’t going to get everything, you know,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:38.21,1:25:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn’t going to be able to accomplish everything,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:40.38,1:25:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I thought, “I am going to set out one goal.”
Dialogue: 0,1:25:44.33,1:25:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is kind of an all encompassing goal.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:52.45,1:26:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I can grow in my love toward my wife,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:03.63,1:26:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I can manifest Christlike love toward her, that is my goal.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:12.20,1:26:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, “Well, that is kind of puny.”
Dialogue: 0,1:26:15.80,1:26:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously you are not a husband.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:21.93,1:26:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But look at this.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:23.77,1:26:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I can love the person with whom I have the closest, most intimate relationship,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:32.54,1:26:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she seeing all my flaws, and I having to bear with all of hers,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:38.78,1:26:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then love is not going to be a problem with everybody else, is it?
Dialogue: 0,1:26:44.42,1:26:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am so tired. I told someone.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:48.15,1:26:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, “Why are you going to plant a church somewhere?”
Dialogue: 0,1:26:50.77,1:27:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, “I am tired of preaching Christianity. I want to go live it somewhere.”
Dialogue: 0,1:27:04.12,1:27:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, guys, if this is a church and if this is not your goal,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:14.66,1:27:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then what you are going to do is, you are going to go out and bring in people
Dialogue: 0,1:27:17.59,1:27:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them two fold sons of hell like yourself.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:24.52,1:27:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this goal is, to be like Christ and to follow him.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:32.96,1:27:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:35.76,1:27:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A group of people devoted to Christ, devoted to one another.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:42.85,1:27:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s it.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:44.33,1:27:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can have all those other things and elders and everything else,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:49.34,1:27:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you don’t have this, then you don’t have a church, ok?
Dialogue: 0,1:27:55.94,1:27:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Let’s pray.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:58.32,1:28:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, I come before you and I pray, Lord,
Dialogue: 0,1:28:01.28,1:28:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you would help us to understand and to apply these truths,
Dialogue: 0,1:28:06.67,1:28:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be transformed by them, in Jesus name, Amen.