The Prophecy of Enoch ｜ Straight Bible
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Summary
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the 7th generation of the ancient Israelites, Enoch. Who are these filthy dreamers? How did they get here? What is their connection to the Bible? And why are they so important?
Transcript
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And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these.
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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you
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I'm just going to write about common salvation,
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then I had to change and I had to write unto you
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and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith.
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that you would earnestly contend for the faith,
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who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
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ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.
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These are the these that are spoken of by Enoch.
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Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these.
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But these speak evil of those things which they know not,
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So we're all on the same page of who's being spoken of.
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There are fakers in the church that are taking people astray,
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And because of that, people have to earnestly contend for the faith
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But the little bit that there is, it's profound.
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And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
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saying, Behold, the Lord comes with 10,000 of his saints
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and to convince all that are ungodly among them
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of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed
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and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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If you missed that context, you missed everything in the book of Jude.
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Again, we talk about, like, it's very rare to hear a sermon on Jude in the church.
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Maybe we should have more transparency and have these sermons out of Jude
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so we have to pull out a lot about the little bit that we got.
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It lays out the whole lineage through Seth, right?
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Did you see the big green book we got from Chuck?
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It opens up like an accordion, and it tells, like, the whole timeline of life.
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And it shows, like, not just the church, but even the natural realm.
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Well, in the timeline with Adam, it shows Adam, Seth,
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and it goes straight through all the way to Enoch.
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And then Adam was like, he probably got that question a lot
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by the time it came down to, like, his seventh descendant.
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And then Adam realizes Enoch's the real deal, right?
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He says, Enoch, like, you don't understand, dude.
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It was like, it was crazy before the fall, man.
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Like, me and Eve, like, we operated in other dimensions.
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Like, we're just stuck in these dimensions right now.
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But Enoch, like, I can't even explain what used to happen.
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Like, before the fall, like, I can try to put in words for you.
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And, like, you know, now we're, like, stuck in these skin suits and stuff.
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You know, and then Enoch, I could just see Enoch just being like, no, no.
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Like, Adam, you were talking face-to-face with him, right?
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He's like, yeah, Enoch, we could move at the speed of thought.
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Like, right now, y'all only use, like, 10% of your brain.
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And then Enoch's just like, yeah, yeah, but what was he like?
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Like, you were interacting face-to-face with him.
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You know, and then I could see Adam being like, dude, I used to play catch with him.
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I don't know exactly, like, what the stuff was back then.
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Like, Enoch is this very different dude in the day that he lived in.
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So it's very intriguing to just kind of think about, like, what made him like that?
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I'm not starting a new denomination based on that.
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I'm just saying, like, I think we should think about these things, man.
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So we're going to get into the life of Enoch, right?
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We have to start in Hebrews 11, just like we did last week.
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Well, the life of Enoch, like I said, there's not a ton about Enoch in the Bible, man.
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So you've got to pull out what you can from each of these passages.
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So remember last week we talked about Hebrews 11, 1.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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We're not just Christians because our parents were Christians and our grandparents were Christians.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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We already went over that last week, so we're not going to deep dive into that.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him.
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For before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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But without faith it is impossible to please him.
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For he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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So right at the jump we've got to deal with this thing by faith.
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This wasn't just some random turn of events, and God was like, oh, I'll just grab Enoch, man.
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It says that by faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found.
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Yeah, I'm just saying, like, imagine if there was a dude today who's, like, famous, and just maybe the dude Elon.
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Like, imagine in that day, just Enoch just wasn't found.
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Like, they just had to put pieces together, and somehow they figured out, like, God took him.
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The big thing I want to get into right here in verse 6,
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but without faith, it is impossible to please God.
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Because at the end of verse 5, it says that Enoch pleased God.
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I think people were like, they think about, like, life goals, and like, I want my 401k to have this many commas and zeros,
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and I want to have, like, this many pieces of real estate, or I want to have, like, this much stuff and this many things.
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Like, I think it's a good life goal to please God.
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But verse 6 is like, this is like a life verse, dude.
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For he that comes to God must believe that he is, that he is God.
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And you have to believe that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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So this is, so first off, you have to believe that he's a rewarder.
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Do people understand that, that God's a rewarder?
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For he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder.
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So we, so we got to believe that, like, and you do need to think about, like, what reward are you seeking today?
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I think, I think we need to, like, understand that, know ourselves enough to say, like, what exactly is the reward I'm seeking today?
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Because I think it's common in America to, like, be seeking the American dream, be seeking money, which doesn't mean we're all bad people.
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I mean, we are all technically bad people until we're saved by grace through faith.
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But nevertheless, you're, like, going after these rewards, and I think we need to be mindful of what is the reward that we're going after, and how are we going after it?
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So God's a rewarder, and who's a rewarder of those?
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So this is where, like, the so-called prosperity gospel goes astray, right?
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Because it's, like, seeking prosperity, seeking reward.
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The game is he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, not his benefits.
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Like, do you really want God, or do you just want the benefits that come from God?
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And then I think we're in Matthew 7 right after that, so we'll be close.
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And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites.
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Like, when people get offended today, he's not worried if he offends you.
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Which is a big deal, dude, because people are, like, what Jesus is doing is he's saying you've got a rattlesnake in your backpack.
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People are, like, I don't want to know about the rattlesnake in my backpack.
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I just want to reach in there and grab my Lunchables and my little food and my little snacks and my little animal crackers.
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Don't tell me that there's a rattlesnake in my backpack.
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He's going to tell you you've got a rattlesnake in your backpack.
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And if you're offended by that, then good luck with everything.
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And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corner of the streets that they may be seen of men.
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Actually, next week's going to get heavy into this, like, desiring the appraisal of man, which this system today is very much built on that.
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Yeah, our whole system is based on, like, this big thing of, like, liking.
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Like, I remember when the Instagram first came out and it was, like, the likes.
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It's just I just come from a place of, like, who cares if people likes it or not?
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Like, the whole context is, like, you post a thing and then people say if they likes it or not.
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Like, think about what that's building in our society, that you're trying to do a thing to get humans to likes it.
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And it's in contrast to the word of God, right?
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We've got to be careful that we're not doing stuff for the reaction of man.
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He says, they love praying in front of everybody that they may be seen of men.
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He says, verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
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You won't have any reward in the eternal realm, but you get your reward on the earth.
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But you, when you pray, enter into your closet.
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And when you shut the door, pray to your father, which is in secret.
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And your father, which sees in secret, shall reward thee openly.
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Doing stuff in secret, doing stuff, seeking God, where it's just you and him.
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All right, let's look at Matthew 7, starting in verse 7.
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Like, the nature of the kingdom of God is, like, it's very intentional.
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Yeah, it's like you're very much into exploring.
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You're going with, like, the scripture talks about having, like, a childlike nature.
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Except you become converted and become as little children.
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You shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, I think it says in Matthew 18.
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Like, you've got to keep this childlike nature and this curiosity and, like, going, asking, seeking, knocking.
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Remember how curious you were when you were a kid?
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And, like, everything around every corner was cool?
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You cannot let the monotony of life just take you down to where you're just, like, go to the job.
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And when you go into the Scripture, that's what you're doing, man.
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You're exploring, like, a treasure hunter that goes into jungles and stuff.
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You're doing that, but you're doing it in the Word of God.
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These are all things that have to be done in faith.
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Nobody's doing these things, and they're afraid of life, right?
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Remember, he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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And now God's telling you, ask, seek, and knock.
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He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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And now here's Jesus saying, he that seeks, he will find.
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What man is there of you, if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone?
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Or if he asks a fish, will he give him a serpent?
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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your father, which is in heaven, give good things to them than ask him?
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God's saying, like, I'm just like your dad, but better.
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Therefore, all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do even to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
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He's really saying, like, this is the nature of God.
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Treat other people the way you want to be treated.
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Enter in at the straight gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction.
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Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leads into life, and few there be that find it.
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Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way.
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Remember Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life?
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Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads into life, and few there be that find it.
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So if we want to be on the way, we want to be with Jesus.
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This is tying into God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, not his benefits.
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A lot of people can get caught up in, like, being a Christian for the benefits, but not necessarily, like, seeking God.
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All right, let's get into this seeking God concept, right?
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Isaiah 45, 15 says, you are a God that hides yourself.
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He's not just hiding, like, for the sake of hiding.
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I just want to show you, like, this is kind of the nature of Jesus.
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Then Jesus said unto them, yet a little while is the light with you.
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I want to pause on walk just for one second because we're going to talk about in a little bit how Enoch walked with God.
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For he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
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While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of the light.
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These things spake Jesus and departed and did hide himself from them.
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I'm going to try to explain this in a way that's going to be a little weird, but I'm going to do it anyway.
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The nature of your relationship with God is like this, man.
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I remember it, like, it's kind of wild because as I was getting ready to do this, I was finding all these passages that were so big to me, like, when I first got converted.
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This whole topic was very big to me in the beginning, and it still is this huge thing, but I just haven't thought about it for a while.
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And I remember, like, sitting there and thinking, like, what is this thing going on with me and God right now?
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Like, this is crazy how all this is happening, and it wasn't really coming through people.
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Like, I was in a burning building, and I was in, like, the bottom of the basement in the farthest corner of the basement from the exits in a burning building.
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I was, like, dying, and smoke was just coming, and I was getting ready to take my last breath.
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This is really just how I was, like, seeing this in my mind, right?
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And then Jesus just scoops me up, dude, like, right before I take my last breath and go, okay, I guess this is it, right?
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He scoops me up, throws me over his shoulder, like, gets me outside, and it's nighttime when I'm seeing this.
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And he, like, sets me down in the grass against this house, like, against this building, and he's, like, you good?
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And then he, like, walks away, and then I'm just trying to, like, come to terms with what just happened, so I get up to, like, go after him, and it's, like, this scene where, like, right where the last corner where I saw him turn, like, I get to that corner, like, he's already gone.
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I get to that corner just in time to turn and look, and he's at the next corner turning, and then I'm running to the next corner to, like, see him.
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I get there just in time to see him turn the next corner, and this just went on for a while, and I noticed, like, this is really the relationship with us in Christ, man.
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Like, you run, and you got to tag the guy, but then you got to get away.
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I remember I used to have crazy dreams before I got converted, too, man.
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I'm remembering all this just from getting ready for this, dude.
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I would be chased in, like, cities, like, where you're jumping from, like, buildings.
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And trying to go down staircases and stuff, and you're just frantically, like, stressful dreams.
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Especially when I was coming off Oxys, I'd have the craziest poison dreams, too, where I would just be so stressed and wake up in, like, hot sweats and cold sweats and stuff.
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But I'm, like, always being chased in these dreams, in, like, in boats, in airplanes, in cars.
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I had so many crazy chase dreams, and then I quit getting them when I got converted, man.
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Like, the Lord will chase you down and save you, but the second he gets you, it's on you now.
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I think maybe some people, that will make sense.
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They'll start to understand as they look at their life.
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Like, God really did, like, have this whole turn of events to, like, get me, to get a hold of me.
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God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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So you stopped having dreams once you started getting really serious?
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But, like, at that time, it was heavy on the chase dreams.
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There was a lot of other, like, I used to have the craziest poison dreams coming off of Oxys.
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But those I would have even when I was sober or whatever.
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And then it was one day, like, years later, I was like, I'm not having those dreams anymore.
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You know, in the dream, I felt like it was, like, this bad thing chasing me.
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Because we're enemies of God before we're converted.
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It's like, you're, like, running and this is your enemy.
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You're, like, terrified and you're trying to get away.
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That might be kind of, like, foolish or whatever for people.
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But there's, like, this playful nature of God, dude.
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This is all stuff I loved when I first got converted.
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But the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
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He's just saying, that's how we're going to do this.
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I'm not just going to spoon feed you everything in your life.
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But the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
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Again, these are all passages I loved, like when I first got converted.
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It's just I haven't thought about them for a while.
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The secret things belong unto the Lord our God,
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but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever,
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That we may do all the words of what God has given us,
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what God has taught us through the Scripture, through everything.
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Not necessarily like the law of Moses, although that's the context here,
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but the completeness of God, that we may obey him.
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The secret things, so God's got some secret things, right?
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The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
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There's some stuff he's not going to tell us, dude.
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Like, for me personally, I think it's like end time stuff, if you will, right?
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and they can tell you exactly how everything unfolds, like in the end,
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exactly how like Jesus' second coming, they lay it out like line by line.
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I don't know, man, because at his first coming, nobody knew what was going on.
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Nobody at the first coming was like, okay, born of Mary, she's a virgin,
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comes into town on a donkey, doing all the miracles, hung on a cross, crucifixion.
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I think people were incredibly confused, so I don't know.
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I don't know if like the second coming, anybody has it pinpointed.
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So to me, for me personally, those are like secret things, man.
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Maybe the Lord will show me some of that stuff as time goes on.
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So there's some stuff that we can't really pry into.
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But those that have been revealed belong to us and to our children forever.
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So I know there's secret things, and I know there's revealed things or downloaded things, if you will.
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Like anytime you see this context of like revealed, it's more like a download.
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It's like a thing just goes into you, and you understand it now.
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You're not necessarily learning from like cemetery school or any kind of like traditional educational learning.
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It's a thing that you understand now, and you own it.
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It's funny that you say that term because on the show, we get a lot of, I don't know, victims of whatever, alien abduction, things like that.
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But that's not – that's just – it's not just a demonic thing.
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I try not to read like when we're doing this because I don't want to get off track.
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But in every – like you guys all know who's my buddies and stuff out there, man.
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I'm just incredibly grateful for even what we're doing.
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But all I'm saying is like if the secret things belong to God and those which are revealed belong to us, I want to push the limits.
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Like you're going kind of too hard right now and you're getting into the secret stuff.
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You're coming up against the line of the secret stuff.
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I'd much rather him do that than be like, bro, you're lazy.
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I got stuff to reveal to you and you're busy with Facebook and TV shows and Justin Beaver and the Kardashians and you're not even coming after me to find out these revealed things.
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I would much rather he say like, bro, you went too hard.
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So there's some secret stuff we're just not going to get, but I want to get the revealed stuff.
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So we're back to this whole like seeking God thing, right?
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He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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Let them be ashamed, which transgress without cause.
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Dude, if everybody tunes out like right after this, no problem.
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Didn't you just say there's some famous character that said God won't teach you.
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There has to be like the, we need people to teach the Bible because people can't understand it.
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And actually, this is why I think this show specifically and what you're doing is so important.
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Because he has major influence on people like AJ, that, JJ, that age group and your son.
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Only people that have like letters behind their name can understand it.
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But it's that one lie that gets in there that is the most detrimental.
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And that's one of the things I've just been waiting.
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If you're like, oh no, only the professionals can tell us what's up.
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The Bible is like, here, you have the word of God.
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No one, no thing, nothing present, nothing to come, nothing anywhere in the seen or unseen
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realm can control you because you have a Bible.
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That's what the Romans 8, like 38 passage is about, dude.
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So I just think like, yeah, anybody who's saying like you need big shots to teach you
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But like to me, if somebody's saying you need big shots to teach you the word of God, they're
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That's just a power move for control because the scripture is plain.
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And I don't think most people know this or understand this.
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And they think like, oh no, I can't learn directly from God.
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Remember the New Testament says those who are led by the spirit of God, those are the
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Lead me like we're like our life should be led by God, guided by God.
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Verse five, for you are the God of my salvation on thee.
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Remember, oh Lord, thy tender mercy and thy loving kindness for they have been ever of old.
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Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
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For your goodness sake, oh Lord, good and upright is the Lord.
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So you don't have to be like super righteous and just and perfect for God to teach you.
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That's how you can't like you can't even get on the path without God teaching you.
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Therefore, will he teach even the sinners in the way.
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Look how much this is saying God will teach you.
00:32:16.180
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
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Look at that balance with mercy and truth, right?
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Because you can hit people with the sledgehammer of truth, but God balances it with mercy and truth, right?
00:32:34.780
This is just like in the New Testament where it says grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
00:32:38.400
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
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For thy name's sake, O Lord, part of my iniquity, for it's great.
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Anywhere where you see in the Old Testament the fear of the Lord, that's comparable with the New Testament where you see faith.
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Fear of the Lord in the Old Testament is comparable to faith in the New Testament.
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The fear of the Lord, that's like a whole episode.
00:33:07.240
That's like a whole two-hour episode if we get into the fear of the Lord.
00:33:10.080
But it's just more like this concept of like you're on this giant building, and you look over the edge, and you're like, you get the butterflies in the stomach a little bit.
00:33:21.200
You don't think the building's like coming to kill you.
00:33:25.600
He's not your enemy, but you have this fear of God.
00:33:27.880
Like you don't have a fear of the building itself, right?
00:33:31.400
But you look over the edge, and you're like, wow, this is heavy.
00:33:34.040
Like there needs to be some reverence, and there's no guardrails here.
00:33:38.820
I better have this healthy fear of the edge of the building, not that the building is like trying to hunt you down to kill you.
00:33:47.740
But we have to have this reverence and this awe of God, the fear of the Lord.
00:33:51.380
Remember, faith has to do with loyalty, faithfulness.
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If you want to really get taught by God, really cultivate the fear of the Lord.
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Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
00:34:13.680
His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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Remember in Timothy it says, we haven't been given the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.
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His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant.
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These are the secret things, but we need to understand the why of why we're seeking God.
00:34:44.420
God is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him, right?
00:34:53.300
Like, to me, that's the why behind the seeking him.
00:34:59.920
Some people think this is silly, but like John 14, 26 was a major passage for me, dude.
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And again, I thank God that like I read it and just believed it.
00:35:08.740
Like, I read this passage and I just believed it.
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And I look back now, and it is a bit of a miracle, man.
00:35:15.580
Like, if I look back at like who I was back then and just even like the path of my life,
00:35:20.160
like I'm looking at it and I'm saying like, dude, it's a miracle that I read this passage
00:35:27.900
I guess a lot of people read this and maybe they just read it fast or they read right past it
00:35:35.200
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall
00:35:40.360
teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto
00:35:47.280
I don't know how people say, oh, no, only the professionals can teach you.
00:35:51.140
Unless, again, they're just trying to control the masses.
00:35:54.820
Because people talk about like, oh, religion controls the masses.
00:35:57.020
Well, only if they're not reading the Bible, like, like people who are Bible readers cannot
00:36:05.400
So, yeah, I just read this passage to you and I was like the dumbest person I know on
00:36:10.140
I'm reading this passage and I just went like this.
00:36:17.620
And then I would like read passages and I'd be like, okay, God, I have no clue what's being
00:36:22.360
Like, I don't understand anything that's being said.
00:36:24.800
And I would just be like, I want to understand this.
00:36:33.680
Like, I would start to like hear this explanation in my mind.
00:36:38.920
And then I'd be like, okay, so I'm just having a conversation with myself in my mind.
00:36:43.680
And then I'd be like, no, because I never thought that I, that would have never made sense to
00:36:52.440
Like those words that just got said inside me that, that made me understand this passage.
00:37:01.820
And then I started to realize I was communicating with the creator of the universe.
00:37:05.220
And I'm telling you, bro, like, as soon as you get to that place, the stuff of the world
00:37:13.120
As soon as you get to this place where it's not just this religion, it's not just like,
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Because like, that's cool in America right now.
00:37:20.880
Cause like, I guess all the athletes are Christians now.
00:37:22.980
And like the people in politics are Christians and the podcasters are Christians and like
00:37:30.320
I'm saying like famous people, like everybody, like it's cool to be a Christian, but you, you
00:37:41.260
You start to get to this place, man, where you're, you understand that you're hearing the
00:37:46.200
It just, and you're communicating with them like commas and zeros and bank accounts just
00:37:56.740
And like excess stuff, it just doesn't matter, man.
00:37:59.980
Like you're, you're realizing like, dude, I'm, I'm communicating with the creator of the
00:38:09.140
So let's look at, um, let's look at, uh, let's look at, uh, let's
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look at the passage that we're even like talking about Genesis 5, 21 through 24.
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And Enoch lived 60 and five years and begat Methuselah.
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And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters.
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And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.
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That's a number like your numerology thing is like that sets off buzzers.
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And he, it just sets off some sort of buzzers for me.
00:39:04.000
So again, this is really like all we've got in the scripture about Enoch.
00:39:10.660
I know you get in the conspiracy theory realm and Enoch's like this big character.
00:39:18.060
There's not a ton of stuff written about John the Baptist, but he's a major dude, right?
00:39:23.380
So we have to pull out everything we can about this.
00:39:28.100
One thing I really like about this dude is I, okay.
00:39:30.980
Enoch lives 65 years and begat Methuselah and Enoch walked with God.
00:39:37.220
Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters.
00:39:50.340
So I want to look at this and say, all right, what's up with this dude, Enoch?
00:39:53.540
He walked with God, like he was so close to him that God took him.
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He must've like lived this totally secluded life.
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He can, because he didn't have all the things that I have in my life, right?
00:40:19.380
He just had like the smooth sailing path where he could just be like a hermit and he could
00:40:30.620
He had a family he had to provide for, dude, just like we do.
00:40:35.660
He had all of the problems that we have, right?
00:40:43.840
That's the subtle little hint we get there, right?
00:40:46.300
Like, cause I think people wouldn't be like, yeah, that's this dude, Enoch, but that's
00:40:53.860
He had to provide for his family, just like we had to provide for our family.
00:40:56.960
So we shouldn't just assume, oh, he's this super holy other guy, like different than
00:41:04.140
No, Enoch had, uh, he had a chamber in one of the great pyramids named after this dude
00:41:10.620
He had some major, major role to play in the world scale.
00:41:18.340
So I don't know a lot about outside scripture, but I wouldn't doubt that.
00:41:21.480
I mean, this dude walked with God and then God took him.
00:41:27.140
I've heard it said like this, that God was like, Hey man, we're closer to my house now
00:41:37.060
You couldn't tell me anything about Enoch that like, that I'd be like, no, there's no way
00:41:44.840
We're studying in Elijah where he gets taken, right?
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I don't want to get in fights with people over this, but some would look at it this way.
00:42:04.560
There's a coming worldwide devastation, wrath of God, if you will.
00:42:07.540
And there's one guy who gets taken out ahead of time.
00:42:20.820
There's another group that has built something ahead of time.
00:42:23.720
There's another group who's been warned of God ahead of time of the wrath to come.
00:42:27.240
And they've built something ahead of time because of that.
00:42:32.620
They've been warned, and they've built something that the family of God is supposed to fit in.
00:42:41.040
Some would say that's comparable to the church.
00:42:43.080
But they've built this thing, right, that's going to survive the wrath of God,
00:42:48.600
that's going to go through the wrath of God, but it's going to be protected the whole time.
00:42:52.660
So it's not actually going to take the wrath of God.
00:42:55.200
It's going to sail above the wrath of God, if you will.
00:42:58.120
There's a flood, and this thing that's been built ahead of time because they've been warned,
00:43:04.280
It's not touched by the wrath of God, even though it goes through the wrath of God.
00:43:08.180
So some people would point that out, that Enoch was actually raptured before the wrath of God,
00:43:19.920
We're just saying there's some people that look at it that way.
00:43:23.580
I just want to point out that walking is intentional.
00:43:30.860
It's a thing that's very easy unless you stop doing it.
00:43:34.740
You know, like the old people, when they stop walking, it's very hard for them to keep walking.
00:43:44.060
walk in the spirit so you don't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
00:43:50.680
They didn't have the concept of like he walked with God on a treadmill.
00:43:55.740
Not to say you can't walk in circles because you can,
00:44:02.180
So one thing about walking with someone, you got to meet them first, right?
00:44:06.140
You can't walk with somebody if you don't meet them first, if you don't know them, right?
00:44:09.740
You have to actually be introduced and you have to meet God to walk with him.
00:44:14.340
We're just trying to pull out anything we can because we have this very brief history.
00:44:28.060
Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the high God?
00:44:33.540
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
00:44:38.820
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with 10,000 river of oil?
00:44:44.280
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
00:44:49.680
Remember last week we talked about Cain and he was bringing sacrifice,
00:44:54.320
but it was meaningless because it wasn't done in faith?
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The whole Bible is always saying the same thing, man.
00:45:08.760
Is like sacrifices without any guts behind him?
00:45:11.500
He has showed thee, O man, what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee,
00:45:18.340
but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.
00:45:30.140
Like so much in our kingdom is like there's an internal and an external.
00:45:34.300
It's like to love mercy is this internal thing.
00:45:36.860
And that's what happens externally is to do justly, to do what's right,
00:45:47.160
It's not because you've given yourself this rule book that you have to live a certain way.
00:45:50.260
It's because you've been changed internally and your internals come out in your outside life.
00:45:55.140
So there's an internal of loving mercy and an external of doing justly.
00:46:03.740
When you kind of unpack this, it's like understand that somebody is with you, right?
00:46:10.540
If you're going to walk with God, walk humbly with God,
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understand that somebody's with you as you go about your day.
00:46:24.340
Be aware that one is with you as you go about your life.
00:46:35.260
Imagine if you had a dove on your shoulder and you didn't want it to leave.
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Imagine how serious you would have to be about your walk with God.
00:46:41.420
Imagine how serious and intentional you would have to be aware
00:46:48.660
Like that's a heavy one, especially for us because we joke a lot
00:46:53.980
And I'm grateful to be a part of this, but we definitely do that.
00:46:58.020
But this is really the secret, man, to walk humbly with God.
00:47:03.500
Like be aware that there's a presence that's with you and live accordingly.
00:47:07.100
Like don't do stuff in secret that you think is in secret because it's not in secret.
00:47:18.720
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel,
00:47:32.720
I didn't mean to interrupt, but that's talking about the family Israel,
00:47:40.960
You know, I heard somebody say, like, think about this.
00:47:43.220
If you run into somebody at church and they say, hey, man,
00:47:48.620
I'm not going to be able to pay my rent this month.
00:47:53.480
imagine like what your reaction would be to that person at church.
00:47:56.660
But then imagine if your little brother or your little sister said, hey, man,
00:48:00.120
I'm not going to be able to make my rent this month.
00:48:02.440
And imagine what your reaction would be to them.
00:48:09.680
It's like whatever that reaction was to like your little brother or little
00:48:15.860
If somebody in church says, I'm not going to be able to pay my rent.
00:48:32.880
Oh, children of Israel against the whole family,
00:48:35.660
which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying.
00:48:39.680
You only have, I know you only have, I known of all the families of the earth.
00:48:46.180
Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
00:49:01.420
And then the scripture says, can two walk together except they be agreed?
00:49:05.120
So if we want to walk with God, we have to develop his character.
00:49:08.920
I know I was just talking to somebody yesterday about the contrast between the Old Testament
00:49:14.760
And the New Testament tells us so much about the benefits that we get, that we gain in Christ.
00:49:20.440
Whereas the Old Testament tells more of the story of God, just, I don't even know how you say it, dude.
00:49:28.920
Just in his engagement with humanity and everything that he's gone through with his people.
00:49:36.740
It really brings you into terms with the heart of God and who he is and everything that he's been through
00:49:43.360
And also, I think you have to understand the Old Testament, bro, for the context of who God is.
00:49:51.640
Like, think about in America, if you tell American people, like, God loves you, right?
00:49:55.560
These are American kids who, like, they grew up, their mommy and daddy loves them.
00:50:01.520
Everything is built around, like, giving them good self-esteem.
00:50:12.340
Do you see how that's so different from, like, understanding the fear of God?
00:50:16.820
Like, understanding the fear of God and being raised in such a way where you understand this reverential awe of God
00:50:23.240
and then approaching people and saying, hey, God loves you.
00:50:30.440
But reading the Old Testament is like you've got to be in that to kind of cultivate.
00:50:36.640
I'm not saying you don't learn the character of God.
00:50:38.420
You certainly do by watching what happens at the cross and the resurrection.
00:50:42.560
But there's this long, long story of God's dealing with humanity in the Old Testament
00:50:47.520
that you really need to cultivate his character so that you're compatible and so that you can walk with God
00:51:06.760
Because now we know Enoch walked with God, right?
00:51:11.860
And like I said, I think I said, the only other place where Enoch's really in the Bible is like in the genealogy of the Messiah in, I think, in Luke.
00:51:21.300
Like, these are the only places where Enoch's really spoken of in the Scripture.
00:51:26.540
How can two walk together unless they agree, right?
00:51:29.140
So you want to ask yourself, like, what did they talk about, right?
00:51:40.700
Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
00:51:46.640
Behold, the Lord comes with 10,000 of his saints to execute judgment.
00:52:03.460
Yeah, where man is, like, communicating with God.
00:52:06.540
If he's walking with them and they're talking and stuff, I'm assuming that's Jesus.
00:52:18.400
A lot of this stuff, I look at it that it's Jesus.
00:52:20.260
A lot of this stuff in the Old Testament, like, Adam in the garden, communicating face-to-face with Jesus.
00:52:27.340
I don't know if there's somebody out there who's like, no, Matt, you're wrong about that.
00:52:30.660
But this, I'm just seeing in my heart, like, when I'm reading these stories, I'm picturing, he's like, yeah, he's vibing with Jesus.
00:52:36.800
But they're talking about the judgment to come.
00:52:46.740
Like, that's, I'm sure they're talking about many things, but they definitely talked about the judgment to come.
00:52:57.520
Remember, the context of Jude is fakers in the church, right?
00:53:14.320
And Enoch is laid in direct contrast with those guys because he prophesies of the judgment to come.
00:53:19.900
That's in direct contradiction and opposition to apostasy.
00:53:27.180
Like, apostates, dude, they love to tell you what you want to hear.
00:53:40.580
But don't rock them to the point where you wake them up, right?
00:53:45.080
He's laid out in direct opposition to apostates.
00:53:52.020
He's not just looking for a reason and talk about Enoch.
00:53:55.940
And he says, let's put somebody in here who's in direct contrast to apostasy.
00:54:07.980
We've got this thing where people are like, Jesus, the buddy.
00:54:13.360
Yeah, you just get, you just go get, like, salvation.
00:54:19.860
And it's just like getting a happy meal at McDonald's, man.
00:54:31.540
I just want to drive home a point that, like, New Testament preaching, we're not even pulling
00:54:35.420
anything from the Old Testament about the judgment of God.
00:54:42.620
Then Peter opened his mouth and said, of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter
00:54:50.220
But in every nation that feareth him, he worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
00:55:05.200
He goes into a trance, and he has this vision of the sheet coming out of heaven, right, with
00:55:10.040
all the animals on it, and God says, kill and eat, Peter.
00:55:17.500
And he says, no, don't call anything that I've made unclean.
00:55:21.340
And I love Peter because it says he did this three times.
00:55:38.740
God tells him back three times, no, Peter, this is what's up.
00:55:45.860
Then at the same time, people knock at the door and say, hey, man, we're looking for one
00:55:53.080
They said, hey, man, Cornelius, he had a vision of an angel a couple days ago and said
00:56:01.800
And Cornelius wants you to come tell us, like, whatever you want to tell us.
00:56:10.780
He just went into the trance and had the vision that everything's clean now.
00:56:14.100
So these Gentiles show up at the door and say, hey, man, come tell us about this.
00:56:28.600
And you don't have to be from the nation of Israel.
00:56:31.080
But this is shocking to us because this whole story is about Israel.
00:56:41.240
And he's coming to terms like, oh, wait, this is for everybody now.
00:56:44.480
Like in Romans, it says we've been grafted onto that tree.
00:56:48.760
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ.
00:56:58.440
That word, I say, you know, which was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee
00:57:05.020
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power,
00:57:08.840
who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil,
00:57:13.680
And we are witnesses of all the things which he did,
00:57:16.000
both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, who they slew and hung on a tree.
00:57:20.080
Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly.
00:57:23.380
Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God,
00:57:26.760
even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
00:57:32.600
He died, he went in the tomb, and he rose from the dead,
00:57:41.980
I'd say this next part of the sentence is very important.
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All the blessings of God, the prosperity of God, the tithing.
00:57:56.600
He commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God
00:58:03.080
To him give all the prophets witness that through his name,
00:58:08.480
whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.
00:58:14.740
In the New Testament, they're preaching Jesus the judge.
00:58:18.000
Enoch, back in the day, and why he's different from the apostates,
00:58:21.800
is he preached about the judgment of God, the judgment to come.
00:58:25.640
New Testament preachers are preaching about Jesus the judge.
00:58:32.960
People call it hellfire and brimstone preaching, and they say they don't like it.
00:58:38.980
But there's like these dudes like Jonathan Edwards that preached in the Great Awakening, right,
00:58:48.860
And he preached a famous sermon called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
00:58:57.800
There's a time and a place for everybody and for everything, right?
00:59:02.520
He preaches this sermon called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
00:59:08.140
and it's like hellfire and brimstone preaching, right?
00:59:11.380
And he dealt with people like this because he loved them, right?
00:59:16.880
And they asked his daughter one time, they said, hey, how come your dad is so rough with the people?
00:59:28.240
She said, you don't hear them weep for their souls at night.
00:59:39.900
I just think we're missing something in the church today, man.
00:59:43.480
I just think that this playtime games and stuff, we're missing something.
00:59:51.780
I think we're going into a time of like real ones.
00:59:55.820
Like a lot of people in the chat are real ones.
01:00:00.760
Like some of us just don't fit into the system today, like this church system today.
01:00:06.420
Maybe we think there's something wrong with us, but maybe there's not, man.
01:00:11.160
Like maybe God's raising up some real ones outside of the system right now, man,
01:00:15.340
that are going to get it, that are going to be like straight Bible.
01:00:20.600
They're going to believe that God will teach them, and they're going to get it.
01:00:23.960
But it's not just this one example about Jesus being the judge.
01:00:34.580
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said,
01:00:37.900
Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
01:00:42.040
So he's standing among nonbelievers in a public place, right?
01:00:45.160
Be like if you're at Walmart today or, I don't know, at a baseball game or at the Super Bowl
01:00:50.600
But so he's not preaching to people who love the comfort of their seats
01:00:58.900
and they want the air conditioner at the right temp and they love the music.
01:01:02.020
And if they don't, they're going to tell you to change the music
01:01:05.440
He's preaching to people that didn't come there to hear this.
01:01:12.500
Ye men of Athens, like that implies that they're pagans.
01:01:19.100
He's going to get down with them and tell them, explain to them that they're missing it.
01:01:24.400
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said,
01:01:26.240
You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you're too superstitious.
01:01:32.740
For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription,
01:01:38.740
So there's this inscription, To the unknown God.
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God that made the world and all things therein,
01:02:01.680
God that made the world and all things therein,
01:02:08.540
Why are they taking up all this money to buy land and build buildings?
01:02:12.000
Neither is worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything,
01:02:17.180
Seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things,
01:02:21.420
And hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.
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He is made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth.
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I remember when I was a little kid and somebody explained to me what racism was.
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You know, I am like, I got to know all the answers when I'm trying to understand a thing.
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I was like, wait, they don't, they don't like people because they have different skin color.
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I was like, well, what if they have different eye color?
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They're like, no, it's just that they have different skin color.
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This is talking about your salvation and who God's people are.
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That's talking, in my opinion, there's a big discussion to be had there, but that's not for today.
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If some people think that you can't because of your blood, that's a big deal.
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Like, whatever they say in the Twitter, we don't care.
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It doesn't matter if they're like, oh, only certain people can get it.
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And that's what the Bible is saying right here.
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You know, he's a Jew, but he's a Roman citizen.
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But I like it because it does deal with like racism.
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There's different nations, but we've all been made of one blood and blood is what redeemed
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Who cares about the eye color or the hair color?
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We're redeemed by blood and we've all been made by one blood.
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He has made one blood, made of one blood, all nations of men to dwell in the face of
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the earth and has determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation
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This is, this is why Nick Fuentes doesn't want you to read the Bible, but please continue.
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If happily, they might feel after him and find him.
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They should seek the Lord and somehow they're going to find him.
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They're going to feel after him and find him though.
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He be not far from every one of us because in him, we live and move and have our being
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There's like people today that think they're done with Jesus.
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We live and move and have our being as certain.
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Even also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.
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For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead
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is like on the gold or silver or stone graven by art and man's device.
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He's not something of gold or silver and he can't be made up.
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I went on and there was a Catholic dude that was like, yeah, there's all these statues of
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I was making the point that like you go all around the Vatican, you don't see anything
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And he was making the point that there's 10 statues of Jesus there.
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Like you can't make the Godhead out of art or anything graven by art and man's device.
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Like that's like if you're building a statue of anything like this supposed to represent
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For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead
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is like on the gold or silver stone graven by art and man's device.
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And that's what they're doing in Athens, right?
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At Mars Hill, they had these statues made by man and it's somehow become this thing of
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In the times of this ignorance, God winked at, but now commands all men everywhere to
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Like, dude, if you did this in ignorance before, that's fine.
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But now everybody's going to be held accountable.
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Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by
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that man who he has ordained, whereof he has given assurance unto all men and that
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So I'm just making the point that in this sermon, in this preaching, it's Jesus to judge.
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Enoch stands in opposition to his pastates because he talks about the judgment to come.
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He doesn't say sweet things that you want to hear.
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He tells you the truth about the judgment to come.
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And this is New Testament preaching is Jesus, the judge.
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Not to interject or interrupt, but remember we had that conversation about music and worship.
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I think that's about anything that has any kind of art.
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It's a, this is a form of worship, whether you like it or not.
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So you're saying there shouldn't be any music because that's a form of art.
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So we shouldn't have music in church because it's art.
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I'm just saying that, that it is, that is worship.
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So Creedence Clearwater run through the jungle is worshiping when he's talking about running
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No, I, me and you are saying the same thing in music.
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It's just, you don't like to agree with me when we talk live.
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So Jesus, the judge, but keep this in mind too, whereof he's given assurance unto all
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So like he's the judge, but he's given assurance to all men by the resurrection.
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Like the fact of God raising Jesus from the dead, that gives assurance unto all men.
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The church is not being made by man, buildings.
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Like that's playing in the Ephesian letter, the church, which is his body, right?
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And he's given assurance unto all men in that he raised him from the dead.
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If we are the body of Christ and Jesus is the head, right?
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Like that, that's the plain teaching of scripture is we are the body of Christ.
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In the resurrection, Jesus is raised from the dead.
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Just like in a natural birth, the head comes out first.
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That's our assurance that we'll be raised from the dead because we are his body.
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We have assurance in the same way he's been raised from the dead and been given a glorified
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In that same way, we will be raised from the dead and have a glorified body.
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That's a whole teaching for another time, but that's plainly what he's saying right here.
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I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick
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Sorry, I wasn't there yet, but you said it in verse 1, right?
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I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus who shall judge the living and the
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The judgment of God, it's always here in the New Testament, and it runs totally in contrast
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In that preaching, you are not brought face-to-face with the judge.
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You're brought kind of into this kind of weird, almost like a bounce house at a kid's party.
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You're kind of just in there having a good time or the Ronald McDonald thing with the
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You're just kind of in there having a good time, and you're not brought face-to-face with
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And so real preaching brings you face-to-face with the reality of the judgment of God,
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which this is another whole study for another time, which we probably definitely should do.
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You've got the great white throne judgment, which is to non-believers, right?
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Where everything gets thrown in the lake of fire ultimately, right?
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When people talk about if hell is eternal or not, yes and no.
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Hell ultimately gets thrown in the lake of fire, which is eternal.
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The lake of fire, but then for believers, there's the bema seat.
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That's where we're rewarded at the Olympics, where you either get gold, silver, or bronze,
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For the believer, we all go to the judgment, too.
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You all go to the judgment as well, but it's a different judgment.
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And then we're saved by grace through faith, but what we've done since we've been saved,
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that gets judged, and that's the reward ceremony, if you will, where the rewards are
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So I'm just saying that, like, it's appointed unto man once to die, and after that, the
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judgment, believers and non-believers, it's two different judgments, but we have to come
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Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season.
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Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all lung suffering and doctrine.
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For the time will come where they will not endure sound doctrine.
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Dude, there's coming a time, dare I say we're living in it, where people just won't endure
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They want the little tweeter snippets that are real quick, like fortune cookies.
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They can't handle, like, a sermon that goes one hour, 12 minutes, and 45 seconds.
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But after their own lusts, shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears?
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So they're picking teachers specifically because it preaches to their lust, to their natural
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That's what we read in 1 Kings, right, where Ahab is, he's asking for the prophet that's
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The whole Bible is always saying the same thing.
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And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables.
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So they're facing the truth and they're making a conscious decision to turn away from it.
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Look what he's saying what's going to happen in real Christian living.
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For I'm now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand.
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Bro, this is like the B.I.G. album, Ready to Die.
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Like, whenever we go, we want to be able to look to heaven and say, man, we had a good run.
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All these, all these, like, strong men of God, they get to this point where, like, we're reading about Elijah.
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Like, but God's like, you know, you got to do a couple more things.
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But there's like, I've done so much and I'm ready to go.
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Do you want to get to the end and be like, oh, no, I got another 20 years of stuff I could keep going?
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God's like, bro, no, it's the time of your departure.
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That's what I'm saying with the guy who came in and was trying to do, like, the retirement plan.
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Like, bro, bro, my retirement plan isn't like going on cruises and playing golf and sitting in the Lazy Boy.
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Like, hopefully I'm being persecuted, maybe thrown in prison.
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And then I'm potentially getting my head chopped off because I'm preaching the gospel hard all the way to the end.
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And Paul, he's just at the end of his journey, bro.
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I'm in prison all the time, but I'm writing all the New Testament.
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Like, I'm writing all these letters from prison.
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But, like, Timothy, like, dude, two Timothys hard, bro.
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Two Timothys hard because this is Paul, like, his last words to his son, dude.
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If you're on your deathbed and it's, like, the last thing you get to say, this book should be looked at.
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Like, there's a lot we're going to have to look at.
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He's like, bro, this is the last thing I'm going to tell you.
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And the time of my departure, that's all it is to us.
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When we leave here, it's just the time of our departure.
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He didn't just kind of, like, get on the track and then it's okay because you say a one-time prayer and then you're good forever.
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Why would he say, I've kept the faith if you can't lose the faith?
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That doesn't make any sense for him to say, I've kept the faith if everybody keeps the faith once they get it.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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It's beautiful looking at this scripture under that sort of understanding.
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You might be right about worship and music, too.
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Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.
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And not to me only, but unto all them also that love is appearing.
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Get to me quick, dude, because I'm close to dying.
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Having loved this present world and is departed into Thessalonica, Crescens went to Galatia, Titus went into Dalmatia, and only Luke is with me.
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Take Mark and bring him with you, for he's profitable to me for the ministry.
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The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring with you in the books, but especially the parchments.
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I think I read a little too far, but I like that verse 13.
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I think when he says parchments, it means the scriptures.
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I need good reading material while I'm in prison, but especially bring me the scriptures, man.
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I want to read the books, but bring me the scripture.
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Okay, let's just look at this contrast, because we even have it right here, man.
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Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all that love is appearing.
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So there's a special reward for those of us who love and look for his appearing.
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Because he loved, he loves and looks forward to the appearing of Christ.
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And then there's those who love the temporary realm.
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And they sell out for the rewards of the temporary realm.
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That is the, that's the difference, again, we keep running into between faith and apostasy.
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But Demas, you say, oh no, Demas never was saved to begin with.
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It's not like Demas was saved and then he forsook it.
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Okay, well in Colossians 4.14, Paul's talking to Colossians like in a greeting or like in a salutation.
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He's saying, Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
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Philemon 1.24, he's actually referred to as Demas, my fellow laborer.
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Yeah, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.
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Like he was on the path with me, but he forsook this, man, because he loves the present world.
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And this is in direct conflict with the present world.
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Like he loved the benefits of this present world.
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And he went astray for those things of the present world.
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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JJ's got this in his notes because JJ's preaching in a couple of weeks.
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, here's the criteria if you want to follow me.
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You must deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.
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He never is saying, he's never trying to make this a palatable message and sugarcoat it so that you'll become a Christian.
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He's saying, just make good and sure you're ready for this before you sign up for this.
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Because if you're not ready, do not sign up for this.
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It'd be better for you to have never heard of me than to hear of me, commit to this, and then depart.
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If any man will come after me, he has to deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it.
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And whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
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For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul?
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For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
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Do you see how this is laid out in the scripture?
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Like, what in the world could you gain for the next 120 years that would be worth losing your soul?
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Like, this is just plainly what the scripture teaches.
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Like, we've got to bring this back into the body of Christ.
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I don't know why, though, this is so hard to preach this to people who are filled with earthly things.
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When these guys have so much money, they have these buildings, the cars.
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Like, yeah, they're saying these things about, oh, heaven, eternity, God.
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The world looks at that and goes, you don't even believe what you're saying.
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But, like, in a weird way, how come none of the people with the microphones are saying this?
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How come you have this entire church structure in America and nobody's saying these plain things?
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Even if they're not partaking of the Ferraris and the mansions, because a lot of them aren't, right?
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Some would say those ones are just the successful ones.
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And then there's all these other ones that might have the same heart, but they're just not as successful in this, like, giant ministries and stuff.
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Why are we not drawing a direct contrast and saying, I'm not a part of that?
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That's some other system that I'm not a part of.
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Because they're the ones with the microphone getting paid for it.
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Well, there's also this idea, and not to bring up this guy again, but this idea of Nick Fuentes of being a pariah.
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A guy being a pariah, but then being given the opportunity to play ball.
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Like, I'm not that successful guy right now, but, like, I'm in the game.
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And if I play the right game, then I can play ball later on.
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Get the money, get the temporary rewards in the natural realm?
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Okay, well, that's what this is all preaching about.
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So it's almost like, how did all the politicians get corrupt?
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Like, politicians have to change the current structure.
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I'm sorry to be super offensive, but the church has found itself in that same model now.
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We have to get back to apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists, and teachers.
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We have to get back to breaking bread daily from house to house.
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We have to get back to, like, not just apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists, and teachers,
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And we're not in this structure of where we're going to go be entertained on Sunday morning.
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We've got to start getting some distance between ourselves and that system and that model
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and start doing it according to the Word of God, if that makes sense.
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Guys, we're going to wrap up with Acts 20, verse 17 through 38.
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I think I just, like, was looking at this this morning or something.
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But I just felt like this was a good thing to wrap it up.
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I know you get mad when we do, like, the long ones.
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And from Miletus, he sent, this is Paul, he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church.
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So Paul, again, this is another time he's getting towards the end, or he's towards the
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end enough that he thinks he's not going to see the church at Ephesus again.
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So he calls all the elders of the church together.
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And when they were come to him, he said unto them, you know from the first day that I came
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into Asia after what manner I have been with you at all seasons.
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Let's do that game we play where we say, what doesn't it say?
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You know from the first day that I came into Asia after how good my sermons were on Sunday
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You know what manner I have been with you at all seasons.
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It's not just you saw me for two hours a week in the pulpit, which is lovely and wonderful.
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I think it's a great thing and we need to be doing it.
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Serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations, which befell
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me by the lying in wait of the Jews and how I kept back nothing.
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Dang, how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but I've showed you and have taught
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You guys know when I saw you at Walmart and we had that whole conversation about the kingdom
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of God, you remember at the baseball game, we had that whole conversation.
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Remember in the coffee shop, we talked about all that stuff.
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Yeah, in real life, I taught you publicly and then even from house to house.
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I didn't send out flyers or build some giant building, take your money to build a building
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Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward
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And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall
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I don't know exactly what's going to happen when I get taken to Jerusalem other than the
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He's saying like through prophets, every city he goes into, somebody tells him this by the
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Holy Spirit, save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city saying that bonds and afflictions
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abide me, saying that when I get to Jerusalem, I'm going to be put in bonds.
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I'm going to be put in bonds and I'm going to be put in afflictions.
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It's not going to be mansions like when I go to Jerusalem, it's going to be pain and
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Preachers that don't count their own life dear to themselves.
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They're just here on behalf of the kingdom of God and they're going hard and whatever
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Neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course.
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Even if I'm in bonds and afflictions, I still have joy.
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So that I might finish my course with joy in the ministry which I have received of the
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Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
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And now behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God
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Wherefore, I take you to record this day that I'm pure from the blood of all men
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because I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
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Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost
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hath made you overseers to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
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Remember, Jesus purchased the church with his blood.
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Be very, very mindful of how you in a leadership role are dealing with the church that Jesus
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Oh, you're going to take advantage of the flock?
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Just keep in mind, Jesus purchased that church with his blood.
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You say, oh, no, you're being too dramatic, Matt.
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For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you.
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And even some of you guys here right now, not just dudes coming from outside and like
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not here right now that'll come in and won't spare you, but even some of you guys here right
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now, also of your own selves, shall men arise speaking perverse things.
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To draw away disciples after them, not after Jesus.
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They're just trying to get people to follow them as opposed to following Christ.
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Like a real preacher is just like, Jesus, Bobby, Bobby, Jesus.
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What I'm saying is not this one-off thing in the Bible.
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For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing
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Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after
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Therefore, watch and remember that by the space of three years, I cease not to warn everyone
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Remember what Jonathan Edwards' daughter said about her dad?
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Yeah, but he also says here he wants to finish his walk with joy.
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Joy is an internal thing in your relationship with God.
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Joy is this internal thing that like, you're good.
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Like I have joy if I come in here today and I go, dang, dude, I'm like going to come in here and preach the gospel on a podcast.
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I don't even know how any of this even happened in the last few months.
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And both my kids are out there running the coffee shop.
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This internal thing, like the goodness of life is so good.
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And even if it goes bad, I retain that joy because of my life in Christ.
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It has nothing to do with the externals, right?
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Like for the things in our life, we have joy regardless, like regardless, no matter how bad it goes.
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This dude, this is the book of Acts, but like the other stuff, he's writing from prison.
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He's writing from prison to free people, telling them like, you need to live in joy.
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So joy is this internal thing that doesn't have to do with external circumstances.
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It's got to be cultivated too, though, just like anything else.
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For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.
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Okay, because of that, man, you got to watch and remember that by the space of three years,
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I never stopped to warn everyone night and day, even with tears.
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And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace.
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Depend on that because it's able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
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I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.
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Like in that day, they paid with clothes, it looks like.
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Like gold and silver have always been money, and it looks like clothes in a weird way was money too.
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But he says, bro, I didn't need anybody's money.
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Yeah, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered into my necessities and to them that were with me.
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I have showed you all things, how that's so laboring you ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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how he said it's more blessed to give than to receive.
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Some say it was like a prayer shawl or whatever, but he worked to pay for his stuff,
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which I'm not saying a man of God shouldn't be paid to preach.
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There's a time and a place, and we've got to come to a balance with that
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because I don't think that you should have the most important job in the world and have a side hustle.
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If we're saying preaching the gospel is the most important thing, I don't think you should have a side hustle.
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And we talked about the apostles last week or two weeks ago that they spent 40 hours a week in prayer and the word.
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So I don't know that that really leaves you time for a side hustle,
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but we can unpack that as exactly how does a man get to that place where he can do that and not be dependent on their money.
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But Paul says, I wasn't dependent on your money.
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Then you got to do what you got to do till the Lord opens up another path.
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I've showed you all things, how that's so laboring.
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You ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
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how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.
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And they all wept sore and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
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sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke that they should see his face no more.
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I just want to wrap up just saying, man, Enoch stands in direct contrast to these,
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Jude is warning us about apostates in the church.
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Those who preach judgment like Enoch, they stand in direct contrast to apostates.