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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.49,0:00:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you please open in God's Word
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.24,0:00:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to 1 John 1:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.60,0:00:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 1:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.12,0:00:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That which was from the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.68,0:00:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we have heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.13,0:00:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we have seen with our eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.28,0:00:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we looked upon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.49,0:00:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have touched with our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.50,0:00:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning the word of life -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.13,0:00:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the life was made manifest,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.64,0:00:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have seen it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.61,0:00:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and testify to it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.92,0:00:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and proclaimed to you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.64,0:00:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the eternal life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.38,0:00:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was with the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.70,0:00:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was made manifest to us-
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.51,0:00:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which we have seen and heard
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.22,0:00:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we proclaim also to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.13,0:00:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you too may \Nhave fellowship with us;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.92,0:00:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and indeed our fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.03,0:00:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is with the Father and with His Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.73,0:00:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.58,0:00:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are writing these \Nthings so that our joy
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.76,0:01:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be complete."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.78,0:01:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brothers and sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.23,0:01:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we read John's Gospel -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.05,0:01:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not this first epistle, but his Gospel -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.94,0:01:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John is pretty plain to tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.83,0:01:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who he's addressing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.36,0:01:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me just quote John.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.92,0:01:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 20:30.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.90,0:01:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need to \Nturn there but listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.84,0:01:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This comes from John's Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.71,0:01:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives us John's own reason
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.35,0:01:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for writing the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.86,0:01:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now Jesus," he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.52,0:01:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"did many other signs
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.70,0:01:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the presence of His disciples
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.66,0:01:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are not written in this book."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.96,0:01:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The book is the Gospel of John.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.83,0:01:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But these are written,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.50,0:01:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here he is going to tell \Nus the reason why,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.68,0:01:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"so that you may believe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.92,0:01:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.09,0:01:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that by believing you may have life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.69,0:01:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in His name."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.85,0:02:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John writes his Gospel to the lost,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.25,0:02:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they might believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.32,0:02:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we come to John's first epistle,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.75,0:02:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John is not seeking to convince the lost
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.15,0:02:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in hopes that they will believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.42,0:02:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John distinctly writes this letter
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.64,0:02:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to those who are already Christian
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.47,0:02:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to show you this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.90,0:02:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let your eyes go down to 1 John 2:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.42,0:02:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My little children,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.39,0:02:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's writing to Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.93,0:02:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm writing these things--"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.40,0:02:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what "these things"?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.83,0:02:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of chapter one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.91,0:02:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To you so that,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.22,0:02:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well all of chapter one \Nand all of the epistle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.83,0:02:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But I'm writing these things to you..."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.77,0:02:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to who? To "little children."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.31,0:02:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 2:7:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.02,0:02:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beloved."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.28,0:03:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You use beloved because \Nthey're beloved of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.03,0:03:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm writing you,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.07,0:03:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's who he is writing too.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.72,0:03:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 2:12:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.92,0:03:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm writing to you little children..."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.61,0:03:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are these little children?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.06,0:03:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, they're the ones \Nwhose sins are forgiven
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.85,0:03:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for His namesake.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.32,0:03:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says in verse 13,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.54,0:03:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm writing to you fathers \Nbecause you know Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.02,0:03:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are people that know God.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.02,0:03:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to 1 John 2:18:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.66,0:03:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Children."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.12,0:03:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 2:21:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.38,0:03:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I write to you," who?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.04,0:03:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Not because you do not know the \Ntruth but because you know it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.27,0:03:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are people that know the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.12,0:03:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 3:1: "See what kind of love
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.87,0:03:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Father has given to us."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.57,0:03:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John's including himself \Nwith his audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.88,0:03:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That what?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.75,0:03:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We should be called \Nthe children of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.11,0:03:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's who this is to and for.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.56,0:03:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.06,0:03:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're the children of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.19,0:03:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to 1 John 3:2,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.02,0:03:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beloved, we are God's children..."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.46,0:03:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's who this is written to.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.55,0:04:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 3:7,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.04,0:04:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children;"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.54,0:04:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 3:13,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.84,0:04:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do not be surprised, brothers..."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.62,0:04:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 3:18,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.56,0:04:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.93,0:04:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 3:21,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.96,0:04:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beloved;"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.70,0:04:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 4:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.81,0:04:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beloved."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.79,0:04:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean what you see is:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.47,0:04:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.47,0:04:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"beloved,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.76,0:04:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God's children."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.33,0:04:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see this kind of terminology
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.02,0:04:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally every few verses.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.14,0:04:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 4:11,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.59,0:04:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beloved."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.27,0:04:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 5:13,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.20,0:04:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I write these things to you who believe."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.25,0:04:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's who he's writing to.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.89,0:04:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 5:21, the book ends:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.80,0:04:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children, keep \Nyourselves from idols."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.06,0:04:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think you get the idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.30,0:04:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John is not written for \Nthe same purpose
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.90,0:04:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as John's Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.73,0:04:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not written to unbelievers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.28,0:04:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they might believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.46,0:04:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This epistle is specifically targeting
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.42,0:04:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's children.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.26,0:05:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like James
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.61,0:05:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember when David \Nwent through James?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.71,0:05:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean when I read James
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.05,0:05:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to follow,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.07,0:05:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ok, is he talking to a believer here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.95,0:05:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is he talking to an unbeliever?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.59,0:05:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you were going \Nthrough it, I always thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.16,0:05:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How's David going to handle this?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.89,0:05:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because with James,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.82,0:05:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're just not certain \Na lot of the times.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.01,0:05:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is no doubt \Nwith John in this epistle
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.57,0:05:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who he's writing to.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.25,0:05:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no doubt whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.77,0:05:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that doesn't mean \Nthe lost can't read it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.88,0:05:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even, you know, perhaps get saved
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.52,0:05:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through exposure to its truths.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.08,0:05:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the principle audience
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.41,0:05:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John has in mind are Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.64,0:05:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there is a reason \NI am emphasizing this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.88,0:05:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I emphasize this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.35,0:05:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it helps us recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.43,0:05:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's going on back up in 1 John 1:3.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.69,0:05:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you hear this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.64,0:05:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So that you too--"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.83,0:05:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's saying we "proclaim this truth
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.100,0:05:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about this Christ whom we felt,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.31,0:05:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and heard, and saw.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.05,0:05:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We proclaimed this to you
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.46,0:06:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you too may \Nhave fellowship with us
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.22,0:06:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and indeed our fellowship \Nis with the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.43,0:06:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with His Son Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.50,0:06:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to imagine
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.80,0:06:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these words are aimed
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.73,0:06:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primarily at unbelievers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.18,0:06:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.62,0:06:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 2:13
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.25,0:06:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am writing to you, fathers." Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.73,0:06:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Because you know Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.06,0:06:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are people that do know Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.76,0:06:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do have some intimacy with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.97,0:06:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again in verse 13.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.64,0:06:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of chapter 2.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.77,0:06:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I write to you children
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.12,0:06:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you know the Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.68,0:06:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some level of intimacy there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.56,0:06:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verse 14,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.47,0:06:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I write to you fathers \Nbecause you know Him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.66,0:06:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is from the beginning."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.67,0:06:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, John speaks about fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.76,0:06:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to these people much the same way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.69,0:06:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in much the same manner
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.59,0:06:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he speaks to them \Nabout abiding in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.05,0:06:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go to 1 John 2:28,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.62,0:06:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it say?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.19,0:07:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children, abide in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.42,0:07:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now let's think about that truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.86,0:07:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"abiding in Christ".
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.76,0:07:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that John tells us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.69,0:07:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in John 15
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.69,0:07:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you don't abide in Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.53,0:07:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happens to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.73,0:07:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If anyone does not abide in Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.54,0:07:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is thrown away like \Na branch and withers,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.66,0:07:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the branches are gathered,\Nthrown into the fire and burned."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.24,0:07:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the truth:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.01,0:07:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does every Christian abide in Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.50,0:07:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.50,0:07:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well if they do,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.18,0:07:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean if that's part of the essence
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.98,0:07:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what it is to be a Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.64,0:07:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why do you tell the little children
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.55,0:07:47.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to abide in Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.100,0:07:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's just \Nconsistent with the way
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.32,0:07:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture operates.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.88,0:07:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture all over the place,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.45,0:07:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives us these indicatives, these truths.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.24,0:08:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.26,0:08:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it comes right around
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.74,0:08:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gives us the imperatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.28,0:08:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it commands us to do the very things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.70,0:08:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that over here it tells us
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.07,0:08:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will always be true of the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.88,0:08:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over here it tells us to do those things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.80,0:08:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are always true of the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.65,0:08:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.77,0:08:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Little children, abide in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.31,0:08:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's the same with fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.99,0:08:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John presses us into the inner circle
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.32,0:08:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this fellowship with the \NFather and with the Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.05,0:08:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.05,0:08:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because he thinks \Nwe are on the outside
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.10,0:08:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those windows \Nout there looking in,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.01,0:08:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wishing, well, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.29,0:08:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could have a part \Nwith the people of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.44,0:08:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not it. But \Nbecause we, as Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.60,0:08:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to be pressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.61,0:08:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to be pressed to continue
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.02,0:08:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more and more in this fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.53,0:08:46.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to dive further and further in!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.39,0:08:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact I want you to notice
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.81,0:08:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what John says in 1 John 2:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.56,0:08:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we looked at it
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.80,0:08:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I want you to look at it more closely.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.54,0:08:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My little children,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.57,0:09:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm writing these things to you
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.09,0:09:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you may not sin."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.90,0:09:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now notice three things about this verse.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.33,0:09:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, again, who's John \Nspecifically writing to?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.10,0:09:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believers!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.13,0:09:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My little children."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.62,0:09:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.12,0:09:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's his purpose for writing to them?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.02,0:09:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they may not sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.52,0:09:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But third,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.08,0:09:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are "these things?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.65,0:09:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he writes to them \Nthat they may not sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.62,0:09:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean if someone just got done writing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.72,0:09:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to you, and they just wrote
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.07,0:09:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple paragraphs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.99,0:09:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're reading through the letter
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.89,0:09:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from them to you
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.73,0:09:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've read a couple paragraphs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.55,0:09:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you come to where it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.85,0:09:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm writing these things \Nso that you may not sin;"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.99,0:09:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's pretty normal and naturally intuitive
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.24,0:09:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think that "these things"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.11,0:09:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the things he just \Ngot done writing to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.41,0:10:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that doesn't mean that there's \Nnot application to the whole letter.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.93,0:10:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But certainly he's \Ntalking about chapter 1!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.83,0:10:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter one is in view here.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.19,0:10:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And chapter one is about fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.30,0:10:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, fellowship gets mentioned
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.50,0:10:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four times in chapter one.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.80,0:10:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fellowship with God is \Ncertainly a major incentive
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.70,0:10:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not sin, is it not?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.72,0:10:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't fellowship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.22,0:10:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an incentive not to sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.35,0:10:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you're not making the connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.73,0:10:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is fellowship with God \Nan incentive not to sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.65,0:10:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, obviously because sin is the major
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.74,0:10:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disturber of fellowship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.91,0:10:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But again, my point that I'm making to you
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.62,0:10:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I want you to see that John
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.94,0:10:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is addressing Christians in chapter 1.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.92,0:10:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He tells us that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.65,0:10:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the very thing that \Nhe says in 1 John 2:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.21,0:10:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what John's doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.63,0:11:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's coming alongside us believers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.29,0:11:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1 John 2:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.68,0:11:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's encouraging purity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.36,0:11:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean he's saying, \N"I'm writing these things..."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.80,0:11:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the encouragement to purity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.15,0:11:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in the things that \Nhe's writing. But he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.72,0:11:15.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I write these things to you \Nthat you might not sin."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.33,0:11:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now yes, there may be failure,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.35,0:11:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if so we have an advocate,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.82,0:11:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Christ the Righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.26,0:11:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we're to be pressing towards
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.50,0:11:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more and more purity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.08,0:11:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.68,0:11:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fellowship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.88,0:11:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and purity go hand and in hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.11,0:11:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a real connection there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.30,0:11:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if we fail, there's blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.54,0:11:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we fail, we can confess.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.11,0:11:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they go hand in hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.62,0:11:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's encouraging purity and progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.89,0:11:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's pressing us onward and inward
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.58,0:11:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting to maintain fellowship,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.40,0:11:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,striving to abide in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.42,0:11:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I come to the \Nquestion of the hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.66,0:12:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How is your fellowship with God?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.80,0:12:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the question that \NI want us to think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.81,0:12:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Christian ought to be able to say -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.26,0:12:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't John say it so boldly?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.34,0:12:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Our fellowship \Nis with the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.53,0:12:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with His Son Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.32,0:12:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean are we all able to say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.22,0:12:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we say that boldly?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.65,0:12:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you come in here today and say that,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.95,0:12:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes! I know it!"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.46,0:12:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That is my life!"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.25,0:12:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My life is one of fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.82,0:12:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Father and with His Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.94,0:12:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it!"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.78,0:12:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Since I've been saved, that is true!"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.88,0:12:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is normative of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.76,0:12:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is descriptive of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.84,0:12:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is true!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.07,0:12:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see it!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.93,0:12:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh it's not where I want it to be!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.57,0:12:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some days, I can't find Him \Nthe way that I want to find Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.50,0:12:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as a rule,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.48,0:12:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have walked with the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.85,0:12:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know what that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.45,0:12:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's heaven on earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.22,0:12:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as best as it gets here.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.94,0:12:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the little bit that I've tasted
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.02,0:12:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would not turn back from the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.91,0:12:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.88,0:13:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you say that dogmatically
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.31,0:13:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like he says it?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.95,0:13:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are you seized by hesitation?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.67,0:13:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does conscience hold back?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.99,0:13:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look you know what \NI'm talking about here.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.38,0:13:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John hit on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.25,0:13:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not talking doctrine here.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.89,0:13:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not talking just the knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.74,0:13:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a head knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.55,0:13:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not talking about whether you \Nmade it to church on Sunday.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.63,0:13:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about this, can you say
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.07,0:13:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I walk with the Lord"?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.55,0:13:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.86,0:13:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you walking with Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.17,0:13:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Christ died to purchase us
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.22,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the privilege to walk with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what He died for.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.49,0:13:38.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what this is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.100,0:13:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's think about this \Nrelationship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.41,0:13:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's put our minds there.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.29,0:13:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's think about how we nurture this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.82,0:13:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to give you \Nsome thoughts this morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.24,0:13:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe that's what we'll call it,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.78,0:13:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Some Thoughts on Walking with God."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.43,0:13:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the title.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.80,0:14:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first point \Nthat I want to make.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.59,0:14:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fellowship with God takes effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.27,0:14:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look if I were to ask you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.62,0:14:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Does God want your love?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.77,0:14:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you can think about the \Nchiefest of all commandments.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.01,0:14:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we to love the Father?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.76,0:14:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we to love the Son?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.77,0:14:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, any of you that are married
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.46,0:14:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for any amount of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.93,0:14:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're past your honeymoon,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.75,0:14:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is love always easy?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.94,0:14:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, fellowship with the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.01,0:14:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the Son is not automatic.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.19,0:14:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is not effortless.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.48,0:14:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any relationship in this world
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.35,0:14:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has any sort of real depth or value
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.32,0:14:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.02,0:14:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it takes effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.16,0:14:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you answer this,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.37,0:15:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do good marriages happen spontaneously?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.16,0:15:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear "no's."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.66,0:15:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean does anybody raise their hand
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.54,0:15:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and says, "yes mine \Nhappens spontaneously."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.02,0:15:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Della.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.37,0:15:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's laughing, so I take that as a no.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.16,0:15:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's effort there. Effort!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.70,0:15:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, you know what you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.63,0:15:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you look over and you \Nsee a good marriage -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.74,0:15:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean it's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.27,0:15:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see, they are happily married.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.54,0:15:37.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can be certain about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.29,0:15:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can be certain that somewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.13,0:15:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that good marriage,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.26,0:15:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're going to find somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.17,0:15:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's doing something to keep
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.88,0:15:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that marriage close, warm, healthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.63,0:15:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you not?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.36,0:15:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean somebody in there
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.62,0:15:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is working to communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.87,0:16:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody is working to keep
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.14,0:16:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kind of words and actions that tend
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.27,0:16:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cause distance.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.90,0:16:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're working at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.27,0:16:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're working to keep \Nthose things out of there.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.76,0:16:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're going after them.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.12,0:16:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody is committed to \Nbattling through hard situations
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.91,0:16:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hurt feelings and suspicion
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.96,0:16:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anger that crops up
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.32,0:16:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and distrust and hostility and grudges
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.02,0:16:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and resentment and offenses.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.47,0:16:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean somebody there
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.17,0:16:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is making an effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.81,0:16:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look, the thing is God regards Himself
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.67,0:16:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as our Husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.10,0:16:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a relationship that we're in.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.63,0:16:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lord is our Husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.07,0:16:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this any different? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.45,0:16:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some ways it is different.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.50,0:16:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is invisible to my naked eye.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.15,0:16:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is high and He is holy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.25,0:16:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He is lifted up.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.05,0:16:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.25,0:16:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you remember this,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.50,0:17:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a personal God.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.36,0:17:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture tells us He feels.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.13,0:17:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture tell us He is sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.18,0:17:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it tells us.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.55,0:17:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I recognize that this is different \Nabout the relationship too,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.29,0:17:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of us -
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.52,0:17:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of us is perfect.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.27,0:17:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.10,0:17:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's different.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.82,0:17:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.53,0:17:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means that whenever \Nmy relationship with Him
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.96,0:17:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes strained or there's distance,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.77,0:17:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's never His fault.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.35,0:17:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.89,0:18:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.31,0:18:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always my fault.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.77,0:18:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is a relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.24,0:18:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's one that we have to \Nwork at and make time for.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.91,0:18:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, any relationship in \Nyour life that's healthy,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.77,0:18:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to work at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.10,0:18:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.40,0:18:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's priorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.00,0:18:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This walk with the Lord \Nneeds to be a priority.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.56,0:18:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needs to be something that \Nwe are giving thought to,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.26,0:18:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are giving our mind, our heart to.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.36,0:18:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has to be a prioritization.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.84,0:18:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must make choices
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.55,0:18:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that nurture this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.06,0:18:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must turn away from the things
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.61,0:18:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that create distance between us and God.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.98,0:18:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Priority! Priority!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.38,0:18:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This takes effort!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.90,0:18:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This takes time!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.75,0:18:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's going to be an exertion.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.68,0:18:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't happen for free.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.71,0:18:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yeah you get into it for free.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.65,0:19:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.57,0:19:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the thing we need to recognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.53,0:19:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.59,0:19:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did James not say, "draw near to God."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.32,0:19:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says that to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.54,0:19:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"draw near to Me
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.94,0:19:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will draw near to you."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.40,0:19:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you think about fighting \Nthe good fight of faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.23,0:19:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting the good fight of faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.88,0:19:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean one of the points of that fight
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.24,0:19:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just staying where we trust God.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.44,0:19:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what faith is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.01,0:19:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're fighting to trust Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.58,0:19:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're fighting to keep our hope in Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.88,0:19:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're fighting for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.29,0:19:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a battle in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.91,0:19:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have all manner of enemies
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.20,0:19:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are moving at you
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.54,0:19:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to distract you away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.97,0:19:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to take your time away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.56,0:19:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to take your eyes off.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.12,0:19:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To move you away from this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.15,0:19:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to fight for this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.82,0:19:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man will fight for his marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.64,0:19:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got to fight for this.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.99,0:19:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the chiefest of all relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.56,0:19:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to fight for it!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.94,0:19:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means priorities in your life!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.40,0:19:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it a priority in your life?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.09,0:20:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if you hesitated,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.19,0:20:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your conscience wouldn't let you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.81,0:20:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, I can boldly say
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.51,0:20:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my fellowship is with the \NFather and with His Son!"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.79,0:20:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the reasons you may have hesitated
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.85,0:20:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because you don't \Nhave your priorities right.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.27,0:20:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your conscience knows it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.09,0:20:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your walk with God is not \Nwhat it ought to be
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.36,0:20:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because your priorities are \Nnot what they ought to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.37,0:20:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Effort brethren!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.44,0:20:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Effort!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.01,0:20:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.11,0:20:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worship and honor are essential
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.09,0:20:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.81,0:20:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now John was telling us in \Nthe Sunday school about missions.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.74,0:20:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's calling us, you \Nknow, to give ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.46,0:20:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to one another in love
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.18,0:20:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help encourage one another
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.77,0:20:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we might see this church grow
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.58,0:20:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people being able \Nto be launched forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.66,0:20:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you just remember this,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.26,0:20:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,missions is never the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.15,0:20:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Missions is not the goal.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.23,0:20:56.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does God want most?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.99,0:20:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants our heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.03,0:20:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants our love.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.07,0:21:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants our worship.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.14,0:21:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing is about worship, by and large.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.74,0:21:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the chief thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.62,0:21:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Piper said it in his book on missions.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.97,0:21:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the reason we launch
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.60,0:21:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off to those foreign coasts
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.97,0:21:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because there isn't worship there.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.69,0:21:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we're after.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.93,0:21:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we're longing for.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.58,0:21:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, I want you to \Nall turn to over to Malachi 1.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.20,0:21:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you, you're familiar with this.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.48,0:21:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want you to see this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.88,0:21:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to feel this.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.51,0:21:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.83,0:21:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some thoughts on walking with God
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.39,0:21:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're going to let the Lord Himself
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.71,0:21:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speak to us about some things that,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.77,0:21:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Him, are of chief importance
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.41,0:21:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this walk that we have with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.47,0:21:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to Malachi 1:6.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.99,0:21:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch this. Last book \Nin the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.54,0:22:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're looking for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.13,0:22:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right before Matthew.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.05,0:22:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A son honors his Father
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.36,0:22:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a servant his master.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.83,0:22:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If then, I am a Father, \Nwhere is My honor?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.43,0:22:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God wants honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.98,0:22:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God deserves honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.49,0:22:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is worthy of honor!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.18,0:22:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I am a master, where is my fear?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.55,0:22:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you see, intimacy - yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.98,0:22:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you need to remember this,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.40,0:22:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one that we are \Nin relationship with here
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.78,0:22:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is God Almighty.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.98,0:22:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there needs to be a fear on our part
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.19,0:22:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there needs to be an honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.91,0:22:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not equals.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.66,0:22:51.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'Where is My fear?'
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.19,0:22:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says the Lord of Hosts,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.94,0:22:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'To you, O priests who despise My name.'
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.24,0:22:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.30,0:22:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'How have we despised your name?'"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.98,0:23:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what that \Nhappens to many of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.27,0:23:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If God could speak to you right now -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.64,0:23:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, He can.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.43,0:23:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if He did speak to you audibly
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.52,0:23:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in written word through a prophet
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.06,0:23:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.90,0:23:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He may say the same things about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.88,0:23:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You despise Me."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.46,0:23:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for many of you who do despise Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.37,0:23:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would say, "Where do I despise Him?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.54,0:23:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, by offering polluted \Nfood upon My altar."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.18,0:23:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, we offer sacrifices
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.91,0:23:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as New Testament believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.45,0:23:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sacrifices are good works.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.54,0:23:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sacrifices are sharing what we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.56,0:23:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sacrifices are the praise of our lips.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.36,0:23:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get many texts in the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.78,0:23:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that talk about the \Nsacrifices that we offer.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.70,0:23:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.90,0:23:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How have we polluted you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.12,0:23:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"By saying that the Lord's \Ntable may be despised."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.92,0:23:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now watch this,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.96,0:23:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When you offer blind animals in sacrfice
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.73,0:23:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that not evil?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.95,0:24:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now here's the thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.11,0:24:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a thing that I want you to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.06,0:24:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These priests were making the offering.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.15,0:24:09.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, you know, I do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.86,0:24:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do that. I'm at church! Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.48,0:24:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I'm there.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.53,0:24:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God looks at the quality
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.86,0:24:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the quality has a lot to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.04,0:24:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where your heart is.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.07,0:24:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, when you're offering
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.36,0:24:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,substandard sacrifices
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.62,0:24:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says, "Is that not evil?"
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.35,0:24:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's looking for
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.17,0:24:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an answer that you all know.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.14,0:24:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, it is evil when you offer
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.04,0:24:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,substandard sacrifices to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.17,0:24:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When you offer those that are lame
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.15,0:24:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or sick is that not evil?"
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.39,0:24:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Present that to your governor.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.90,0:24:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know when I think about worship,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.28,0:25:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, oh, I want to be in my seat
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.12,0:25:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when God's word begins to be preached.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.60,0:25:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be in my seat
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.88,0:25:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they begin to sing His--
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.06,0:25:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear from Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.46,0:25:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.21,0:25:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.12,0:25:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the problem with this whole setup here is
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.54,0:25:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody that walks in late
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.41,0:25:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you all see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.92,0:25:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, the thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.65,0:25:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would you guys walk into work like that?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.71,0:25:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offer it to your governor!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.14,0:25:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offer it to your boss!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.08,0:25:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will he accept it?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.33,0:25:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not saying
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.18,0:25:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whether you make it on time
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.82,0:25:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the pinnacle of all this.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.22,0:25:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.43,0:25:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when somebody's \Nwalking with the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.22,0:25:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their heart - their heart is hungry,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.30,0:25:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I want to be there when \Nthe Word's opened up.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.68,0:25:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to miss any of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.26,0:25:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be there when they sing.\NI don't want to miss any of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.32,0:25:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are your priorities?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.62,0:25:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see this has to do \Nwith walking with God,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.86,0:25:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just appeasing \Nthose who are watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.93,0:26:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as what are you offering to Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.32,0:26:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are you offering?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.81,0:26:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you giving?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.99,0:26:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know some are.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.25,0:26:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's sacrifice.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.97,0:26:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you walk with the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.87,0:26:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He watches to see the qualtity.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.05,0:26:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because the quality matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.10,0:26:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men, you come to this woman
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.17,0:26:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you say, "will you marry me?"
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.80,0:26:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then she finds out you got \Nthe ring from a pawn shop,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.38,0:26:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is she going to be affected by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.17,0:26:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, some might not be.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.62,0:26:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some might just be prudent,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.53,0:26:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well I'm glad he did that."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.92,0:26:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saved a bunch of money,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.41,0:26:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now we can get into a house sooner.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.42,0:26:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask her first if that's ok.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.25,0:26:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But look, the reality is,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.37,0:26:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean he might as well say
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.68,0:26:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just your governor,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.88,0:26:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would your wife accept that?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.47,0:26:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean the truth is,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.19,0:26:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we become negligent
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.36,0:27:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the way that we serve God.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.28,0:27:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We give Him the leftovers.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.93,0:27:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wake up in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.38,0:27:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and boy, the best part of your day,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.19,0:27:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what do you do with it?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.94,0:27:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well you wake up fifteen minutes \Nbefore you got to be at work,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.98,0:27:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so the best part of your day,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.58,0:27:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those first hours
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.84,0:27:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you give to your employer.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.52,0:27:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you hit the weights.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.36,0:27:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you turn on the news.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.62,0:27:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all of you do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.32,0:27:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But are you giving God the best?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.87,0:27:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean when you walk with Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.42,0:27:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's mindful of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.45,0:27:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see it right \Nhere in the Scriptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.61,0:27:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.49,0:27:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Present that to your governor,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.02,0:27:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will he accept you or show you favor?"
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.97,0:27:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says the Lord of Hosts.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.32,0:27:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, come on!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.70,0:27:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't give to God
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.92,0:27:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you wouldn't give to your parents!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.26,0:27:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't give to God what you \Nwouldn't give to your spouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.16,0:27:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't give to God what you \Nwouldn't give to your boss.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.76,0:27:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or to your governor.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.14,0:27:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't do that!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.04,0:28:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is worthy of your best.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.52,0:28:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walk with Him this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.21,0:28:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's says,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.12,0:28:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For from the rising of \Nthe sun to its setting
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.69,0:28:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name will be great among the nations."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.38,0:28:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you all remember when David -
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.66,0:28:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remember David did a foolish thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.43,0:28:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he went and he numbered the people.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.31,0:28:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you remember the prophet\Ncame to him and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.80,0:28:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well God sent me with a message.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.40,0:28:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David, you got to pick \None of three bad things.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.37,0:28:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you're either going to get
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.07,0:28:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three days, three months, or three years
Dialogue: 0,0:28:31.09,0:28:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some really horrible stuff."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:33.38,0:28:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And David said,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.50,0:28:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't want God to turn me \Nover into the hands of men;
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.29,0:28:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let God do it."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.32,0:28:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He brought three days of pestilence.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.67,0:28:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you may remember what happened there.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.55,0:28:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end of that whole scenario,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.91,0:28:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was to go to this man Araunah.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.10,0:28:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To his threshing floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.13,0:29:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Araunah saw him coming and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.51,0:29:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am coming and I have to build
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.81,0:29:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an altar and make a sacrifice here."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.05,0:29:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Araunah said, "David, it's all yours."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.99,0:29:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember what David said?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.56,0:29:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "I will not give to the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.26,0:29:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which cost me nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.58,0:29:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you giving to the Lord \Nthat which costs you nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.50,0:29:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lame thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.29,0:29:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see when they brought the blind thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.83,0:29:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what did that say?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.89,0:29:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it was the lamb they didn't want!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.83,0:29:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't do that to God? \NDavid wouldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.93,0:29:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a man after God's own heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.86,0:29:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imitate David in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.39,0:29:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember what was \Nsaid in the days of Eli?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.57,0:29:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That God honors those who honor Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.12,0:29:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just that's the second thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.52,0:29:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worship and honor are essential \Nto this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.81,0:29:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The third thing I would say.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.94,0:29:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin wrecks intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.70,0:29:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here we might go back to 1 John 2:1
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.81,0:29:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it says, "My little children
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.71,0:30:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am writing these things to you
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.38,0:30:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you may not sin."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.31,0:30:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember one of the things\Nhe's written to them
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.59,0:30:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or he's mentioned four times
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.92,0:30:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that first chapter
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.10,0:30:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is clearly an emphasis to him
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.64,0:30:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is he's talking to Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.25,0:30:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about fellowship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.92,0:30:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the perfect thing to \Ntalk to God's children about,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.79,0:30:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you want to encourage not to sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.70,0:30:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.02,0:30:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the danger that they're \Ngoing to go to hell?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.11,0:30:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perish forever?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.35,0:30:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, not for God's true children
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.27,0:30:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are trusting in Christ alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.22,0:30:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are clinging to His cross work
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.37,0:30:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as their only hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.42,0:30:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the true Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.59,0:30:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sin - there's no condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.58,0:30:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have an Advocate.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.07,0:30:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what he's assuring us of.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.86,0:30:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it ruins close \Nfellowship and intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.52,0:30:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.64,0:30:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout history, the men and the women
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.02,0:30:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have, among God's children,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.80,0:31:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have had the privileges
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.39,0:31:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ascend that hill of the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.14,0:31:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the secret places
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.68,0:31:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of God's most glorious manifest presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.31,0:31:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, throughout the age of man,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.52,0:31:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there have been those \Nthat had been invited
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.01,0:31:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most closely into manifestations of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.18,0:31:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll guarantee you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.39,0:31:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're hard pressed to find
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.90,0:31:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's ever been \Nthe spiritually sloppy.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.37,0:31:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have too many professing Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.47,0:31:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sin cheap!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.41,0:31:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just sell it for a song!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.01,0:31:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:43.06,0:31:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you need to stop and think
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.08,0:31:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before you do and say \Nthe things you do and say!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.59,0:31:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to count the cost
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.26,0:31:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the intimacy with God
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.36,0:31:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to be lost
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.56,0:31:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for doing those very things
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.07,0:31:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some of you do
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.18,0:31:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of you say.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.16,0:32:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we have to walk
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.02,0:32:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognizing God is sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.82,0:32:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sin hurts closeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.02,0:32:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know, the Lord is gracious.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.81,0:32:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that there are times
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.72,0:32:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when we do stupid and foolish things,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.43,0:32:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are expecting Him
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.65,0:32:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to turn His back on us
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.25,0:32:22.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to take the rod to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.61,0:32:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He just lavishes us \Nwith hugs and kisses.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.95,0:32:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that, but listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.97,0:32:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the innermost regions \Nof fellowship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.05,0:32:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes beyond anything in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.17,0:32:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's glorious without description.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.09,0:32:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those that have tasted of it
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.46,0:32:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can barely put words together
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.44,0:32:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to describe to other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.68,0:32:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's a very sensitive place to walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.16,0:32:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very delicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.22,0:32:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Lloyd-Jones,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.86,0:32:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came across this,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.86,0:32:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't even know where I got this from,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.78,0:32:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.28,0:32:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The air here in this region--"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.15,0:32:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these innermost regions,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.85,0:33:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, "it's very pure and very rarified
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.12,0:33:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and slight changes are immediately felt."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.95,0:33:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know we can grieve God.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.86,0:33:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians chapter four warns us
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.38,0:33:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against grieving the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.91,0:33:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren you think \Nabout grieving the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.86,0:33:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have a God who is
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.62,0:33:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cold and indifferent
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.53,0:33:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and distant and disinterested.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.93,0:33:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, grief.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.33,0:33:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think about grief.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.46,0:33:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who has the greatest \Nability to cause you grief?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.93,0:33:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you think about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.55,0:33:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If John happens to be walking over
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.76,0:33:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somewhere in Mozambique or in Nepal,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.48,0:33:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somebody, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.94,0:33:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody just said,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.45,0:33:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I hate you Christians!"
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.72,0:34:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, John just shakes that off.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.93,0:34:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If his wife said that to him...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.30,0:34:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who has the greatest \Nability to cause you grief?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.75,0:34:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here we have God,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.31,0:34:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's bidding us not to grieve Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.86,0:34:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more one person loves another
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.66,0:34:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more the person doing \Nthe loving is affected by
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.35,0:34:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any coldness or any distance
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.48,0:34:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any failure
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.70,0:34:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the part of the one who they're
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.45,0:34:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extending their love to.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.68,0:34:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother. Sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.97,0:34:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you suppose that your sins
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.06,0:34:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't grieve God?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.92,0:34:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean do read that text and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.54,0:34:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, that's for somebody else
Dialogue: 0,0:34:34.12,0:34:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's certainly not for me when I sin."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.73,0:34:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's given to common
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.05,0:34:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brothers and sisters at Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.40,0:34:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People just like you and just like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.96,0:34:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean did Jesus not say -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.60,0:34:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking of His manifest presence -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.99,0:34:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said this,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.56,0:34:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will love him and \Nmanifest Myself to him."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.70,0:35:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.12,0:35:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, "whoever has My commandments."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.35,0:35:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see this is a person \Nthat's walking in truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.67,0:35:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This a person walking in righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.72,0:35:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are walking in obedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.02,0:35:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Whoever has My commandments \Nand keeps them,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.35,0:35:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he it is who loves Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:15.76,0:35:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he who loves Me \Nwill be loved by My Father
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.56,0:35:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will love him and \Nmanifest Myself to him."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.34,0:35:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, are you going to forsake
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.86,0:35:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a closer walk with Him
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.80,0:35:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some cheap sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.97,0:35:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is Jesus not making it clear
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.30,0:35:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our fellowship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.17,0:35:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is clearly impacted by our obedience?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.22,0:35:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean look, the doctrine of justification
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.65,0:35:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a wonderful doctrine.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.14,0:35:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the reason some of you walk around
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.42,0:35:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a cloud hanging over \Nyour head all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:35:53.97,0:35:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because you sin way too easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.63,0:36:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, the doctrine of \Njustification is wonderful,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.99,0:36:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you're living an impure life -
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.43,0:36:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're regularly giving God
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.40,0:36:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the off-scouring, the leftovers;
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.22,0:36:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're walking like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.89,0:36:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, it's not surprising
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.59,0:36:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're not enjoying
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.01,0:36:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the manifestations of God
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.91,0:36:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way others are.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.12,0:36:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean the more we humbly obey Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:27.92,0:36:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,empowered by His Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.21,0:36:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helped by His grace,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.46,0:36:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more intimate is our fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.33,0:36:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Father and the Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.74,0:36:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean ask yourself this,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.90,0:36:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.58,0:36:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.64,0:36:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.73,0:36:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.23,0:36:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I want this empty, fleeting pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.09,0:36:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this sin, or do I want
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.28,0:36:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unsearchable riches
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.45,0:36:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what this fellowship
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.74,0:36:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Father and with His Son
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.36,0:36:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.67,0:36:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John tells in chapter 1
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.68,0:37:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how this deeper walk with God
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.79,0:37:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can become a reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.93,0:37:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did he say?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.95,0:37:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Walk in God's light."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.96,0:37:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring all your words,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.29,0:37:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring all your actions into the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:09.72,0:37:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring your sin into the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.19,0:37:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be honest about your sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.47,0:37:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Confess them to God for \Nforgiveness and cleansing.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.24,0:37:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But press on brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.50,0:37:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking in the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.97,0:37:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walk in the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.05,0:37:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where your fellowship with God is.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.80,0:37:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.97,0:37:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, "I write these \Nthings to you that you sin not.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.75,0:37:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's the third thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.62,0:37:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin wrecks intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.82,0:37:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's move on even into the realm
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.31,0:37:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we're not talking \Nspecifically about sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.95,0:37:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say fourthly,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.42,0:37:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beware of distractions.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.48,0:37:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course sin always hinders fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.94,0:37:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But so often our problem is not with sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.07,0:37:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's with the things that are permissible.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.09,0:37:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you remember how Paul said it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.16,0:38:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "All things \Nare lawful," but what?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.44,0:38:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said it various ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.75,0:38:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.77,0:38:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all things are profitable.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.24,0:38:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all things edify.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.45,0:38:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all things build up.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.78,0:38:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.21,0:38:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware of the things that pull you
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.74,0:38:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from the Lord!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.28,0:38:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you this, the devil
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.10,0:38:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will happily have you doing lawful things
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.82,0:38:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it keeps you away from
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.04,0:38:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intimacy with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.17,0:38:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be sure of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.74,0:38:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be sure!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.96,0:38:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many professing Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.07,0:38:43.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,squander precious time?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.43,0:38:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O brethren!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.47,0:38:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we could have all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.25,0:38:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from every one of you that has been
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.24,0:38:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spent foolishly in social media!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.01,0:38:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can just put it together
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.58,0:38:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that precious time like gold
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.86,0:39:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take it back from Facebook
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.32,0:39:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whatever other things \Nthey got out there now.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.77,0:39:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just inviting new \Nones one after another.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.01,0:39:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just time \Nabsorbers for Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:11.34,0:39:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many professing Christians squander
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.68,0:39:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that precious time spent with the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.93,0:39:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just on social media but
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.51,0:39:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laying in bed!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.97,0:39:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.25,0:39:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or movies, music, and clothes,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.88,0:39:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and houses and gardens and yards,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.73,0:39:30.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hobbies.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.11,0:39:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's all this stuff that just chews up.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.05,0:39:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you live a life
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.97,0:39:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you regularly make choices
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.100,0:39:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.81,0:39:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just becomes a pattern.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.17,0:39:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're making these choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.06,0:39:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Constantly making choices that crowd out
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.69,0:39:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time spent with the living God
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.94,0:39:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in His Word,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.44,0:39:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and talking with Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.62,0:39:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in meditation;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.36,0:39:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to grow closer.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.00,0:39:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to grow more intimate.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.96,0:40:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the place where the glory comes;
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.76,0:40:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the place of transformation,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.44,0:40:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul tells us is when \Nyou behold His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.06,0:40:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that doesn't mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.41,0:40:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, you wake up in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.89,0:40:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and five minutes you're there
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.41,0:40:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you're out.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.74,0:40:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all you gave God.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.15,0:40:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best of your time \Nyou've given to the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.75,0:40:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've given to other stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.59,0:40:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think that is just going to emblazon
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.71,0:40:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the image of Christ on you?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.68,0:40:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.20,0:40:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do not have a quality walk with God,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.34,0:40:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any less then you can have \Na quality walk with a wife
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.74,0:40:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it's just five minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.98,0:40:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.77,0:40:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware of the distractions.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:45.95,0:40:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware! Beware! Beware!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.72,0:40:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if you can \Nput on spiritual glasses
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.04,0:40:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and but see and look with me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.50,0:40:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.35,0:40:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go back there.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.55,0:41:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right after the Proverbs.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.57,0:41:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have this Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.25,0:41:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the Psalms
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.76,0:41:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after the Proverbs.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.97,0:41:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I say if you can put \Nthe spiritual glasses on,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.29,0:41:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did Christ not tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.78,0:41:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Scripture is all about Him
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.52,0:41:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I believe the Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.15,0:41:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not just a story about Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.12,0:41:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of his earthly wives.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.96,0:41:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that this is a picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.92,0:41:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as many of the forefathers
Dialogue: 0,0:41:32.48,0:41:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have down through history
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.91,0:41:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believed that this is a picture
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.86,0:41:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Christ and His Church.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.28,0:41:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you look at the Song of Solomon 5:2
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.61,0:41:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the church is saying this,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:47.50,0:41:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I slept, but my heart was awake."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.21,0:41:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this is a person \Nwho's thinking on Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.77,0:41:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...the sound;
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.75,0:41:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my Beloved is knocking."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.10,0:41:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ has come knocking.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.22,0:42:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Open to Me, My sister."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.84,0:42:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Christ calling out to the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.03,0:42:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sister open.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.29,0:42:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want even a greater closeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.46,0:42:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My love, My dove, My perfect one,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.09,0:42:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for My head is wet with dew,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.55,0:42:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My locks with the drops of the night."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.67,0:42:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the church responded,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.07,0:42:23.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an excuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.93,0:42:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all this is.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:25.81,0:42:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I've put off my garment,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:29.76,0:42:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how can I put it on again?"
Dialogue: 0,0:42:32.08,0:42:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've bathed my feet;
Dialogue: 0,0:42:33.23,0:42:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to get them \Ndirty if I go on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.62,0:42:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And do you known what this moment
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.69,0:42:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of hesitation cost her?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.40,0:42:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My Beloved put His hand to the latch
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.36,0:42:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my heart was thrilled within me.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.27,0:42:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arose to open to my Beloved,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.87,0:42:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my hands dripped with myrrh,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.86,0:42:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my fingers with liquid myrrh,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.25,0:42:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the handles of the bolt.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:54.40,0:42:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I opened to my Beloved,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.09,0:43:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my Beloved had turned and gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.63,0:43:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there are times when the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.62,0:43:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bidding us to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.78,0:43:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel prompted to pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.41,0:43:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel prompted to get alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.71,0:43:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you don't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.40,0:43:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.100,0:43:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not even that she didn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.84,0:43:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.44,0:43:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She just took too much time
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.25,0:43:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.86,0:43:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give yourself freely to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.21,0:43:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, be ready when He prompts, to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.71,0:43:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To you who are young,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.92,0:43:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're full of health and strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.09,0:43:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to stop and think.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.08,0:43:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are all those \Nthings that you're trading
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.24,0:43:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for time with Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.36,0:43:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they? You tell me!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.44,0:43:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What real rest have they \Nbrought to your soul?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.90,0:43:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What real joy have they brought to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:49.59,0:43:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What quietness in your spirit?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.48,0:43:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What true satisfaction?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.65,0:43:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know it. You know it as well as I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.80,0:44:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their pleasures are fleeting
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.98,0:44:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're quickly hollow.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.35,0:44:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ is never that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.18,0:44:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's truly satisfying.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.89,0:44:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do those things that you trade,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.24,0:44:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean are they really fit
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.85,0:44:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,objects for your highest love?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.82,0:44:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about what you're \Ngiving your life to?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.04,0:44:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're walking with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.45,0:44:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ bought us the privilege!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.48,0:44:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't squander this in idleness
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.22,0:44:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and foolishness,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.58,0:44:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasting your precious time!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.100,0:44:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember reading -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.19,0:44:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Spurgeon tells this story
Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.88,0:44:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a man who was in his eighties,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.50,0:44:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he got converted.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.19,0:44:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, I think he got \Nconverted in a meeting,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.28,0:44:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the very same meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:44:46.10,0:44:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he just wailed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.73,0:44:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeking to console him,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.81,0:44:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You've been saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.74,0:44:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just wailed because
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.59,0:44:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had wasted his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.47,0:44:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.37,0:45:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean Isaiah says it,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.48,0:45:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why spend your money for that
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.17,0:45:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not bread?"
Dialogue: 0,0:45:05.13,0:45:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would say fifthly this,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.85,0:45:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prayer is vital to this fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:08.99,0:45:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:09.76,0:45:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to this again in Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.68,0:45:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're still there look at 2:14.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:14.74,0:45:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Song of Solomon 2:14.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:17.80,0:45:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Christ speaking \Nto His church again,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.14,0:45:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"O My dove, in the clefts of the rock,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.63,0:45:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the crannies of the cliff,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:27.22,0:45:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let Me see your face,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.05,0:45:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let Me hear your voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.38,0:45:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your voice is sweet,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.92,0:45:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your face is lovely."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.30,0:45:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like Christ is saying to His people,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.99,0:45:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't go hide
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.26,0:45:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the cracks and crevices.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.19,0:45:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come out and speak to Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.38,0:45:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear your voice."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.52,0:45:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean sometimes we feel like
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.91,0:45:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, we can hardly pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.33,0:45:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All it is groans and sighs.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.96,0:45:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Jesus is saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.32,0:46:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your voice to Me is sweet.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.13,0:46:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come out to Me in all your weakness."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.50,0:46:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's like a parent whose child
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.35,0:46:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,struggles to get these words out.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.70,0:46:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The child is not despised by his parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.37,0:46:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.04,0:46:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your sighing and groaning is sweet to Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.78,0:46:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NI'm not going to mock at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.15,0:46:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going to mock at your weakness."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.48,0:46:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, you won't enjoy
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.29,0:46:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deepest of fellowship with God
Dialogue: 0,0:46:25.19,0:46:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you learn to speak
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.88,0:46:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with your Beloved in prayer and praise.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:32.25,0:46:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, brethren, we need
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.62,0:46:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seasons of prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.14,0:46:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need seasons where we talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.68,0:46:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say sixthly,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.22,0:46:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's Word is vital to this fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.08,0:46:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you know this text well,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.58,0:46:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of you, Isaiah 66:2.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.37,0:46:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't turn there. But God says,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.31,0:46:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is the one to whom I will look..."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.27,0:46:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who does God look to?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.57,0:46:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looks to those who are
Dialogue: 0,0:46:57.48,0:46:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humble and contrite in spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.10,0:47:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tremble at His Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.50,0:47:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming to His Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.60,0:47:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trembling at His Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.89,0:47:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To them I'll look."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.34,0:47:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That look of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.27,0:47:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means He'll look on them with favor.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.82,0:47:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means, it's a look \Nthat is very desirable.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:15.36,0:47:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not only that God needs \Nto be hearing our voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.89,0:47:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must hear the voice \Nof God in our souls.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.82,0:47:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're never going to enjoy \Nfellowship with Him
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.48,0:47:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless your ear is \Ntrained to hear His voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.83,0:47:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the Word, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.77,0:47:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It comes from pulpits, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.67,0:47:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see that the Psalmist says,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.68,0:47:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The heavens declare it."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.65,0:47:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.37,0:47:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God speaks to us by His Providence.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:43.77,0:47:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to us in creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:46.32,0:47:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to us through His preachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.72,0:47:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to us in His book.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.34,0:47:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to us in \Npromptings of the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.59,0:48:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He speaks to us in conscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.98,0:48:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's given Himself a voice
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.13,0:48:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through many means.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:04.31,0:48:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need ears,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.05,0:48:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just that are trained to hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.05,0:48:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but take time to hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.35,0:48:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O, when you got all the noise coming!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.41,0:48:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one of the things
Dialogue: 0,0:48:13.91,0:48:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about all the technology today
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.18,0:48:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just bombs us with noise!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.43,0:48:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say seventhly, meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.60,0:48:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close, sweet communion with God
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.67,0:48:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is kept up by meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.55,0:48:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember there in Genesis 24.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.46,0:48:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember what Isaac was doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.65,0:48:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here comes his bride-to-be.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.60,0:48:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what was he doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.84,0:48:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was walking in the fields.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.18,0:48:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, if there is a time \Nto walk in the fields -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.37,0:48:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sunrise and sunset.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.71,0:48:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially here in hot Texas.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:46.82,0:48:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's a time to get out.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.32,0:48:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, maybe not \Nall of you need to walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.64,0:48:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But oh, walking outside is the place
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.39,0:48:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me to meditate.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:55.74,0:48:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.51,0:48:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know Charles and \NJohn Wesley's mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.65,0:49:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hers was under an apron.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.10,0:49:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The place isn't what's most important.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.21,0:49:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Isaac was out there meditating.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.50,0:49:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditation is giving real time
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.36,0:49:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think and chew,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.92,0:49:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to contemplate God's works,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.10,0:49:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His wonders, and His glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.15,0:49:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His beauty, and what He says
Dialogue: 0,0:49:21.12,0:49:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in His word.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.23,0:49:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what our needs are, our wants,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.41,0:49:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's how He's working.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.70,0:49:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditation just rivets the mind
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.65,0:49:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to biblical truths, and it brings
Dialogue: 0,0:49:30.93,0:49:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God and the soul close together.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.03,0:49:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of you that know \Nsomething about meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.38,0:49:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know that's true.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.14,0:49:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditation tends to open our eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:49:39.86,0:49:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the invisible glory of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.09,0:49:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you, \Nthere have been times -
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.47,0:49:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, you go in the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.66,0:49:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, you have some time in prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.45,0:49:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you walk and you walk,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.57,0:49:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you linger in prayer,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.06,0:49:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just communing with God
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.68,0:49:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and meditating.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.62,0:49:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you get into that
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.92,0:49:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe a half hour, an hour,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.00,0:49:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an hour and a half
Dialogue: 0,0:49:59.40,0:50:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly God comes!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.45,0:50:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you only did that for ten minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.18,0:50:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wouldn't have happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.93,0:50:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditation, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.35,0:50:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, Psalm 63:6, we read there today.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.17,0:50:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I remember You upon my bed
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.64,0:50:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and meditate on You in \Nthe watches of the night."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.54,0:50:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would end with this last point.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.64,0:50:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number 8.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.05,0:50:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:22.01,0:50:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture says that you are God's garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.13,0:50:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a such a picture for fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.44,0:50:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're still there in Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.77,0:50:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to turn to chapter 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.46,0:50:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture describes you as God's garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:39.78,0:50:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means it's a place He wants to come
Dialogue: 0,0:50:42.51,0:50:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and delight Himself in the beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:46.28,0:50:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a place God delights to walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.92,0:50:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, what this is
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.92,0:50:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it's God telling His people,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.88,0:50:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want fellowship with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.62,0:51:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to find the sweetness there.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.60,0:51:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to enjoy it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.60,0:51:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to delight in it."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.07,0:51:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the Song of Solomon 4:10.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.65,0:51:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look what Christ says.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.17,0:51:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ says this to His church,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.65,0:51:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How beautiful is your love
Dialogue: 0,0:51:14.07,0:51:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sister, My bride!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.78,0:51:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much better is your love than wine
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.89,0:51:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fragrance of your oils
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.40,0:51:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than any spice!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.14,0:51:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your lips drip nectar, My bride;
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.55,0:51:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,honey and milk are under your tongue;
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.50,0:51:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fragrance of your garments
Dialogue: 0,0:51:26.93,0:51:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like the fragrance of Lebanon."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.39,0:51:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this in verse 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.70,0:51:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A garden locked is My sister, My bride."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.38,0:51:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you go to verse 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.02,0:51:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the church says,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:44.39,0:51:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Awake, O north wind, \Nand come O south wind!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.87,0:51:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blow upon my garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:48.68,0:51:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let its spices flow.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:50.62,0:51:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let my Beloved come to His garden
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.16,0:51:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eat its choicest fruits."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.79,0:51:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you go to 5:1
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.19,0:52:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Christ responds,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.12,0:52:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I came to My garden, My sister, My bride
Dialogue: 0,0:52:03.96,0:52:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gathered My myrrh with My spice.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:06.88,0:52:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ate My honeycomb with My honey,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.15,0:52:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drank My wine with My milk.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.86,0:52:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eat, friends, drink, \Nand be drunk with love!"
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.70,0:52:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just ask you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.99,0:52:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this is a picture of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.28,0:52:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanting to come and enjoy
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.03,0:52:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the delights of His garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.70,0:52:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really need to see \Nthe Lord desiring that.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:32.20,0:52:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think sometimes we have this distant,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:34.24,0:52:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,austere idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.80,0:52:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't see God really wanting
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.28,0:52:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:44.82,0:52:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Desiring it.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.75,0:52:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I ask you this, how you would you
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.52,0:52:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rate your fellowship with God?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.76,0:52:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to move \Non in 1 John after this.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:53.10,0:52:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as we leave this topic,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.29,0:52:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least for now,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.53,0:53:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how would you rate \Nyour fellowship with God?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.63,0:53:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it distant?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.41,0:53:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it sloppy?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.18,0:53:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disrespectful?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.24,0:53:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Casual?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:13.62,0:53:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it close?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.77,0:53:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it precious to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:18.65,0:53:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, can you really say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.40,0:53:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking with the Lord is precious.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:24.77,0:53:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would you rate it?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.49,0:53:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it intimate?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.09,0:53:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you the sort of garden
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.13,0:53:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where God comes looking for fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.72,0:53:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He finds it?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.93,0:53:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Delights in it?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:38.58,0:53:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this, brethren, \Nthis is heaven on earth
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.77,0:53:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the lover of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.12,0:53:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really is.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.24,0:53:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no matter how long
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.86,0:53:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have been a child of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.34,0:53:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've got to protect this.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.11,0:53:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to make efforts at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.65,0:53:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has to be a priority.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.45,0:53:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all make choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.07,0:54:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have priorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:00.67,0:54:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all get up in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:54:02.03,0:54:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the same number of hours in a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.50,0:54:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who walk close with God
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.43,0:54:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have the same number of hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.23,0:54:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we spend them?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.40,0:54:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we doing with them?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.67,0:54:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to guard
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.39,0:54:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your relationship with the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:54:20.05,0:54:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the Son
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.17,0:54:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.98,0:54:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean brethren, ask yourself this.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:25.25,0:54:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask, "When was the last time
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.60,0:54:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you had a sweet time with the Lord?"
Dialogue: 0,0:54:30.98,0:54:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where your heart jumped because He came!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.11,0:54:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, maybe it was overwhelming.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.34,0:54:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it was just that still, small voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:39.80,0:54:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just came.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:41.16,0:54:42.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He thrilled your souls.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.65,0:54:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You felt your soul melt because His Word
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.30,0:54:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came to you personally.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.34,0:54:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you know when that happens,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.23,0:54:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He spoke to me!"
Dialogue: 0,0:54:50.47,0:54:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you're in the Word and it's for me!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.25,0:54:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you're out in prayer and \NHe comes and He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.69,0:54:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm going to give you \Nwhat you just asked."
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.89,0:54:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know it!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.89,0:55:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you're just \Nmediating on something
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.71,0:55:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly you are so \Nblown away by His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:04.52,0:55:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's because His Spirit has come
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.25,0:55:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and opened your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:55:07.56,0:55:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.06,0:55:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just swept you away.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.49,0:55:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when has that happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.74,0:55:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I'm not talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.29,0:55:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing God in theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.48,0:55:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.39,0:55:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just knowing in theory that He loves you.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.61,0:55:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you personally drink the love
Dialogue: 0,0:55:28.35,0:55:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Father and the Son?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:31.30,0:55:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manifestly?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.77,0:55:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not talking about just
Dialogue: 0,0:55:35.16,0:55:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diving into the theology book.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.30,0:55:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know this?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.91,0:55:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren!
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.95,0:55:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know this?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.73,0:55:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we have a Husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:44.28,0:55:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't He give us that picture in Hosea?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:48.99,0:55:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we're like Gomer.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:51.55,0:55:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a name! Gomer.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:53.16,0:55:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we're like her!
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.36,0:56:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always think of Gomer Pyle.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:01.33,0:56:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a ridiculous name.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.92,0:56:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, Gomer.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.29,0:56:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's unfaithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.07,0:56:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Hosea is like Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.66,0:56:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, He comes along \Nto a bunch of prostitutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.61,0:56:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:17.56,0:56:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.09,0:56:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'd say that's what
Dialogue: 0,0:56:21.24,0:56:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of us are now.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:23.52,0:56:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what many of us were before.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.59,0:56:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just prostitutes!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.81,0:56:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just these unfaithful -
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.50,0:56:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were harlots.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:31.67,0:56:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just gave ourselves freely
Dialogue: 0,0:56:34.30,0:56:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our whoredom out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.10,0:56:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He comes along
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.64,0:56:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He buys us off the slave block.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:40.61,0:56:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that not what He did?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.76,0:56:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I pay for you with My blood."
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.98,0:56:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, I want you for Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.52,0:56:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want you going and giving yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.08,0:56:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all your other lovers anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:59.07,0:57:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you for Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.53,0:57:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's a picture of the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.15,0:57:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what this is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:05.73,0:57:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us for Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.16,0:57:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's bought us with a price.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.65,0:57:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Calls us to leave our other lovers
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.16,0:57:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and surrender to His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:17.35,0:57:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be that garden that He delights in.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:21.96,0:57:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you all you ever \Nheard is Christianity is
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.13,0:57:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just be saved from your \Nsin and saved from hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:26.53,0:57:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this goes much deeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.98,0:57:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing is beautiful and \Nprecious to the uttermost.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:33.58,0:57:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't sell it for a song.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:37.19,0:57:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, priorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.98,0:57:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Priorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.81,0:57:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.20,0:57:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God help us.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:48.63,0:57:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, we ask for Your grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.80,0:57:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask for the power
Dialogue: 0,0:57:54.08,0:57:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Spirit of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:56.46,0:57:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make this a reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.55,0:58:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh Lord, we know that you want us
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.31,0:58:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to walk with you in worship, in honor,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.28,0:58:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in praise, in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:05.77,0:58:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that this is \Nindeed the chief thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.36,0:58:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giving our lives to You.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.27,0:58:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giving ourselves entirely;
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.26,0:58:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sacrifice upon the altar of God
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.35,0:58:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be consumed
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.78,0:58:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Your fire of love for Your people.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.96,0:58:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, I pray for the \Ngrace for this church.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:36.94,0:58:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That above all things
Dialogue: 0,0:58:38.22,0:58:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter what you do with us,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.38,0:58:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, I pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:46.31,0:58:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pray that you would make this church,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:49.66,0:58:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at whatever cost necessary;
Dialogue: 0,0:58:54.28,0:58:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever you have to bring,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.68,0:58:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever fire to purify,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.77,0:59:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever comforts to help,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.01,0:59:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever is necessary, Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:06.58,0:59:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pray that You would make this church
Dialogue: 0,0:59:08.98,0:59:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what You want it to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.68,0:59:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fruitful, beautiful in your sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.20,0:59:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, spare us nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.17,0:59:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you've given to your elect people
Dialogue: 0,0:59:21.18,0:59:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the ages.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.23,0:59:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spare us nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.54,0:59:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will propel us forward
Dialogue: 0,0:59:27.79,0:59:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into these degrees of glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:31.94,0:59:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That will propel us forward
Dialogue: 0,0:59:33.100,0:59:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a deeper intimacy
Dialogue: 0,0:59:36.23,0:59:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and knowing you with that knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:38.71,0:59:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that oh, that is so sweet and so valuable.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.42,0:59:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us, Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.59,0:59:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we pray in Christ's name.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.22,0:59:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.