WEBVTT 00:01.178 --> 00:05.443 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of things that we had a chance to witness and to see the last couple of weeks. 00:06.844 --> 00:09.007 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have been to Israel. 00:09.047 --> 00:12.130 [SPEAKER_00]: I know many of you have talked or have had friends, relatives that have gone. 00:12.731 --> 00:20.199 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that you'll notice is that wherever you go, things are made out of the material that are there. 00:20.880 --> 00:24.944 [SPEAKER_00]: And the material that is there are rocks, okay? 00:24.964 --> 00:26.646 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you were on top of a mountain, 00:27.065 --> 00:33.294 [SPEAKER_00]: They would take the rocks that are up there and they cut and chisel and incredible craftsmanship, just amazing. 00:34.115 --> 00:48.957 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you'd have this incredible era that took place and somebody would then come in and beat those people up and they'd knock over the rocks and then they'd get some more rocks and they'd build upon those rocks. 00:48.977 --> 00:54.405 [SPEAKER_00]: And after those people were existing for a while, they'd get beat up by somebody else 00:54.554 --> 00:58.699 [SPEAKER_00]: they'd knock those rocks over and then they'd get some more rocks and build upon those rocks. 00:59.340 --> 01:00.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think I'm kidding? 01:00.221 --> 01:00.922 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not. 01:01.083 --> 01:14.580 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that was funny after about, you know, maybe 9-10 days, you'd see this huddle of people all around and they're taking pictures down through maybe, uh, uh, the floor, they put plexiglass and he'd look down and you'd soften say, I know what they're looking at. 01:15.622 --> 01:16.663 [SPEAKER_00]: They're looking at rocks. 01:17.572 --> 01:33.977 [SPEAKER_00]: And you look over and you say, yep, there's some more rocks and it will be deep and you will be looking how they're excavating and trying to reveal things that happened two to 3,000 years ago and that's what they were building were things upon rocks and there are areas of 01:34.126 --> 01:42.554 [SPEAKER_00]: Great, Dynasties, of course, through Israel, you have the times of David, and you could see things that lasted there. 01:42.634 --> 01:46.398 [SPEAKER_00]: You can actually go back even to the book of Genesis. 01:46.458 --> 01:54.866 [SPEAKER_00]: There's one place we saw things that they finally revealed after digging that are there way, way back in the early Genesis. 01:56.127 --> 02:00.471 [SPEAKER_00]: You have the time of the empires, the Roman Empire. 02:01.362 --> 02:07.489 [SPEAKER_00]: And on through, you could actually go through these areas after I was done. 02:07.529 --> 02:16.219 [SPEAKER_00]: You could say, you know, you could go through studying each site by era and to see what happened during that time period. 02:17.601 --> 02:29.074 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, Jesus talked about a time period and Matthew that there would not be in the temple one rock upon another. 02:29.611 --> 02:36.722 [SPEAKER_00]: They came in, under Titus, and destroyed Temple, and those rocks that were plummeted down to the ground. 02:37.363 --> 02:38.064 [SPEAKER_00]: And we saw this. 02:38.104 --> 02:40.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that I think about is this. 02:42.670 --> 02:50.762 [SPEAKER_00]: Each of those areas and those dynasties, and I'm sure they were thinking, everything's going to keep on just the way it is. 02:51.964 --> 02:53.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And look how strong we are. 02:54.348 --> 02:57.913 [SPEAKER_00]: Look how powerful we are. 02:58.349 --> 03:02.235 [SPEAKER_00]: Alexander the Great, you look at the Roman Empire, you look at all of these timepears. 03:02.555 --> 03:05.119 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, these folks, they weren't just like America. 03:05.220 --> 03:13.192 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like huge, huge densities, and you would think they would never be able to fall, even the Babylonians. 03:14.774 --> 03:19.241 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, each one of those areas, you can look back and see, they fell. 03:22.586 --> 03:25.791 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we're gonna talk about being overconfident. 03:26.699 --> 03:30.183 [SPEAKER_00]: thinking, nothing's ever going to happen to me. 03:30.363 --> 03:33.466 [SPEAKER_00]: I would never, ever do something like that. 03:34.407 --> 03:39.914 [SPEAKER_00]: And one thing we learn is be careful, be careful, be careful of the word never. 03:41.055 --> 03:43.157 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd never do that. 03:45.780 --> 03:53.128 [SPEAKER_00]: Confidence ourselves can be one of the most detrimental things that can ever happen to us as individuals. 03:53.834 --> 03:56.378 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, we can apply this to our personal lives. 03:56.418 --> 03:57.659 [SPEAKER_00]: We can apply it to a church. 03:57.760 --> 03:59.382 [SPEAKER_00]: We can apply it to a nation. 04:00.503 --> 04:06.832 [SPEAKER_00]: And our nation, I wonder if we're at that point too, where we think we're always going to stand. 04:06.892 --> 04:08.134 [SPEAKER_00]: We're never going to move. 04:08.975 --> 04:11.759 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's as though we have a confidence in ourselves. 04:12.520 --> 04:13.562 [SPEAKER_00]: And we cannot have that. 04:14.643 --> 04:20.972 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to conclude today where our confidence is supposed to be overconfidence. 04:21.290 --> 04:25.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Coupled even with negligence can lead to sad consequences. 04:26.336 --> 04:33.303 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the case when a person is so sure of himself that he becomes careless about the little things. 04:35.285 --> 04:37.508 [SPEAKER_00]: That could pose a threat. 04:38.228 --> 04:41.572 [SPEAKER_00]: There was an example of a man who was a stuntman, Bobby Leach. 04:42.413 --> 04:50.622 [SPEAKER_00]: In 1911, he went over the Niagara Falls and especially designed steel drum and lived to tell about it. 04:51.817 --> 05:06.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Although he suffered minor injuries, he survived because he recognized the tremendous dangers involved in the feat because he had done everything he could to protect himself from harm several years later. 05:06.299 --> 05:18.718 [SPEAKER_00]: After that incident, while skipping down the street in New Zealand, Bobby Leach slipped on an orange peel, fell and badly fractured his leg. 05:19.424 --> 05:24.912 [SPEAKER_00]: taken to a hospital where he later died of complications from that fall. 05:25.994 --> 05:33.304 [SPEAKER_00]: He received a greater injury walking down the street than he sustained in going over Niagara. 05:34.807 --> 05:48.807 [SPEAKER_00]: He was not prepared for danger in what he assumed to be a safe situation. 05:49.057 --> 06:02.057 [SPEAKER_00]: There are sometimes the big things that we prepare for, but it's sometimes these little things that begin to creep up in our lives that can be something that can be detrimental to what we're trying to do. 06:03.038 --> 06:08.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Here in this chapter, God begins to give an overview like an Old Testament survey. 06:08.988 --> 06:13.815 [SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting to see how many times God teaches us 06:14.318 --> 06:23.991 [SPEAKER_00]: through the example of the Old Testament and there are times even in the Old Testament for instance, Psalm 106 and we'll probably go there a time or two to look at a verse. 06:24.258 --> 06:37.062 [SPEAKER_00]: But he goes through, historically, what Israel did and some of the ends that they had, the latter part of, in the book of Acts, the latter part of verses chapter 6 and then into chapter 7. 06:37.463 --> 06:47.582 [SPEAKER_00]: What Stephen does is go through an Old Testament survey with the Israelites there at that time period and explaining to the leaders, listen, this is where our fathers were. 06:47.984 --> 06:49.105 [SPEAKER_00]: and look what happened. 06:49.125 --> 06:53.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at the failures and you're going down the same route and guess what they did. 06:53.809 --> 06:58.093 [SPEAKER_00]: They hated and despised him and took him out and stoned him as a result of that. 06:58.953 --> 07:09.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews, chapter three, chapter four, again a time period where God takes his word and says, listen, let's look at Israel and see what happened to them and let's not do the same thing. 07:10.923 --> 07:17.569 [SPEAKER_00]: I love being a little brother because when I was able to do with my as a little brother 07:18.140 --> 07:25.639 [SPEAKER_00]: and see what he did, and what got him in trouble, and then I note to self, Carl, don't do that one. 07:26.100 --> 07:27.985 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you do that, you're gonna get whipped. 07:28.687 --> 07:31.474 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I learned to be careful. 07:32.180 --> 07:38.270 [SPEAKER_00]: And in this chapter, he begins to go through and they're again, we're not going to take the time with every one of these. 07:38.410 --> 07:40.453 [SPEAKER_00]: There are multiple portions of Scripture. 07:40.513 --> 07:42.416 [SPEAKER_00]: We could take weeks upon these. 07:42.657 --> 07:43.699 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not my intent. 07:43.999 --> 07:46.723 [SPEAKER_00]: My intent is the zero-in on verse number 12. 07:47.164 --> 07:57.040 [SPEAKER_00]: But in this chapter, we see phrases like the Jews as they are coming out of the, and go through their pilgrimage from Egypt on out. 07:57.813 --> 08:17.897 [SPEAKER_00]: They got protected them, and for take their what he talks about is that they were covered by the cloud, as though immersed into a baptized in a covenant with Moses, and this cloud that they were under was a symbol of the very divine presence that God had with Israelites. 08:18.029 --> 08:24.538 [SPEAKER_00]: It was on Mount Sinai, it was in the Tabernacle and the Temple, and the purpose was to protect them. 08:24.618 --> 08:47.648 [SPEAKER_00]: It was through the daytime of pillar a cloud that would be seen over top of them, the screened them, and to help them from the rays of the heat of the sun as they were walking along with their animals, the memories with their wives and their children in this pillar 08:47.797 --> 08:52.744 [SPEAKER_00]: to them that their enemy could not even come to them and to see them. 08:52.784 --> 09:13.796 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm reading Isaiah 44 and verse number five where it says this, and the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and a smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defense. 09:14.377 --> 09:15.238 [SPEAKER_00]: And that pillar 09:15.691 --> 09:19.195 [SPEAKER_00]: God's presence was there to show them that very thing. 09:19.936 --> 09:30.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we see later on how they were fed, how they were taken care of by that wonderful food that is called manna, or what is it? 09:31.470 --> 09:35.234 [SPEAKER_00]: And literally that's the definition of manna. 09:35.795 --> 09:36.315 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it? 09:36.436 --> 09:39.920 [SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't really explain exactly what it was. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.283 [SPEAKER_00]: All they know is it came down from the heavens. 09:42.343 --> 09:44.365 [SPEAKER_00]: It came down onto the ground. 09:44.581 --> 09:55.536 [SPEAKER_00]: In Exodus 16, the cross-reference tells us when the children of Israel saw, they said, one to another, it is manna for they was not or knew not what it was. 09:55.576 --> 10:00.442 [SPEAKER_00]: And Moses sent unto them, this is the bread which a Lord has given to you. 10:00.923 --> 10:06.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus used that same thought in John 6 where he says, I am the bread of life. 10:06.788 --> 10:20.044 [SPEAKER_00]: I have come down from the father, I've come down from heaven, come down, and if any man will take of me, consume of me, as they in the wilderness ate that bread and lived, if you take of me, you will have eternal life. 10:21.425 --> 10:25.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing he uses as an illustration is water from a rock. 10:26.131 --> 10:36.323 [SPEAKER_00]: This was one of those places I wish I could have had a projector and showed you one particular picture. 10:36.522 --> 10:58.935 [SPEAKER_00]: visual of this my wife it was a long hike so I said you know it was hot and we had been in Jericho we had been in the side we were all over the place that day out of desert and so I said just stay here and we began to hike probably about 30 or so minutes up the mountain and as we were doing this we're talking dimension rocks yet okay 10:59.506 --> 11:04.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we're walking up and taking more pictures of rocks and caves and things. 11:04.673 --> 11:05.774 [SPEAKER_00]: We saw one of those little co-needs. 11:05.794 --> 11:09.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that in the scripture, talk about these little animals that are living or rocks and so forth? 11:09.920 --> 11:10.681 [SPEAKER_00]: I got pictures of them. 11:10.821 --> 11:11.622 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll show you one of those. 11:11.662 --> 11:16.829 [SPEAKER_00]: We're walking up, but in there's not a lot of green. 11:18.251 --> 11:20.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Until you come to this one place. 11:21.595 --> 11:28.905 [SPEAKER_00]: And almost like it's coming out of a rock comes this waterfall coming down and there's 11:29.223 --> 11:31.167 [SPEAKER_00]: pull at the bottom of that. 11:32.229 --> 11:38.240 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you go up a little further past that and you'll see this little stream, water, and then begins to get a little bit plush. 11:39.642 --> 11:45.213 [SPEAKER_00]: And my fact some of the children, teens, were there and they would walk back in this one place. 11:45.253 --> 11:49.240 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't go back into a lot of people were going back and seeing it became a larger pull. 11:49.523 --> 11:55.472 [SPEAKER_00]: and the kids were back air swimming and things, then we would go up to the next level and you're hiking up and then you see another pole. 11:55.492 --> 11:59.158 [SPEAKER_00]: And you go up and there were four different waterfalls from this. 12:00.219 --> 12:02.603 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you looked this way, you see rocks. 12:03.564 --> 12:06.609 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, look this way, you see rocks. 12:07.310 --> 12:10.916 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet right here, it is all beautiful and it is all plush. 12:11.957 --> 12:17.826 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think of Israel walking out in the wilderness and they're looking around and they're thinking, 12:18.683 --> 12:21.126 [SPEAKER_00]: Where in the world are we going to get water? 12:21.667 --> 12:27.635 [SPEAKER_00]: All that we see is desert and mountains and valleys and nothing around here. 12:28.336 --> 12:29.978 [SPEAKER_00]: Moses, what are we going to drink? 12:31.140 --> 12:32.342 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to die out here. 12:33.844 --> 12:38.390 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, they're you drink water because you're hydrated. 12:39.151 --> 12:42.155 [SPEAKER_00]: And these folks don't have bottled water. 12:43.417 --> 12:44.218 [SPEAKER_00]: They had nothing. 12:44.789 --> 13:12.957 [SPEAKER_00]: and they're walking hundreds of thousands of people waiting to get this water and so Moses is commanded to go to Iraq and to smite that rock and from that rock in the middle of nowhere comes this water pouring out and that's the thought here out of seemingly nothing comes life seemingly from that which is dead comes life and that's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ 13:13.257 --> 13:18.003 [SPEAKER_00]: because it tells us that that rock which followed them in the wilderness was Jesus Christ. 13:18.844 --> 13:36.346 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why Moses had to take the rod and strike that rock one time for the water to come out because it's a picture of Jesus Christ being smoked for our sin to bring water from that which seemingly is dead to give life to those who would drink. 13:36.627 --> 13:39.130 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why even the revelation closes down. 13:39.430 --> 13:45.897 [SPEAKER_00]: Whosoever will let him take of the water of life, freely. 13:46.678 --> 13:47.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is. 13:48.260 --> 13:50.762 [SPEAKER_00]: No charge, no credit cards needed. 13:50.822 --> 13:56.689 [SPEAKER_00]: You just walk up and freely take of this water and you will have life. 13:57.209 --> 14:00.533 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly what Jesus Christ is for you and I. 14:01.194 --> 14:02.875 [SPEAKER_00]: The payment is in full. 14:03.556 --> 14:05.598 [SPEAKER_00]: He, the rock, paid the price. 14:06.399 --> 14:08.121 [SPEAKER_00]: It is Jesus Christ who died. 14:08.489 --> 14:26.087 [SPEAKER_00]: He rose again also, but we're looking at the death and the sacrifice that if you take of that water, and even though you're in barren land, and it doesn't seem like there's anything nourishing, nothing spiritual, it's like your empty inside, crisis, I have water that I'm going to give you, and that's John chapter four. 14:27.128 --> 14:38.260 [SPEAKER_00]: He told the woman to well, I have something to give you that if you knew who it was was talking to you, you'd say give me your water, give me that water that I'll be able 14:38.510 --> 14:43.716 [SPEAKER_00]: And those that rock that provided life for them was the Lord Jesus Christ. 14:44.057 --> 14:45.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Beautiful, beautiful picture. 14:45.839 --> 14:53.528 [SPEAKER_00]: You also remember when you go from the Old Testament to the new, and I've taught this all times, let's read verse number four, please. 14:54.610 --> 15:01.598 [SPEAKER_00]: And all that all drink of that same spiritual rock, now follow me, he didn't say a physical rock. 15:02.506 --> 15:11.097 [SPEAKER_00]: They, in the Old Testament, drank of the spiritual rock, and yet what they saw was a physical rock that water began to gush out of. 15:11.578 --> 15:17.606 [SPEAKER_00]: For they drank of that spiritual rock, and you'll notice King James capitalizes the rock there, interesting, huh? 15:18.187 --> 15:26.438 [SPEAKER_00]: The follow-up them, in other words, it was mobile, wherever they were at that rock was there, and he says that rock, the follow-up them, that rock was, 15:26.637 --> 15:27.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ. 15:27.458 --> 15:30.042 [SPEAKER_00]: To the Old Testament, what they saw was the physical. 15:30.502 --> 15:46.485 [SPEAKER_00]: When we in the New Testament look back at that, what we're looking for is Jesus Christ and how He took care of that all spiritually and there's a great illustration in that verse showing the Old Testament physical, the New Testament is spiritual for you and I. 15:47.226 --> 15:52.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Then it begins to give them you and I actually the warnings. 15:52.591 --> 16:05.987 [SPEAKER_00]: from the Old Testament saints, the Hebrew history, if you will, that many of them that were there, they fell, their carcasses, they died in a wilderness, and if you look at Hebrews chapter 3, you'll find out why. 16:06.247 --> 16:09.030 [SPEAKER_00]: It was because of their sin of unbelief. 16:09.731 --> 16:16.219 [SPEAKER_00]: They just wouldn't believe God, and had they believe God, they would have gone into the Promised Land. 16:16.570 --> 16:23.778 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the interesting things, as we were there at the River Jordan, and there again will show you pictures of that time. 16:23.818 --> 16:27.683 [SPEAKER_00]: It was really sweet because many of you know Buddy Green, the musician. 16:27.783 --> 16:31.267 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one that the music for Mary did you know. 16:31.307 --> 16:40.457 [SPEAKER_00]: He was on this trip and he had a concert for us and he and other men were singing there at that river and it was explained to us. 16:40.578 --> 16:44.502 [SPEAKER_00]: It was in that area that the Israelites, 16:44.718 --> 16:54.480 [SPEAKER_00]: came across on dry ground right near Jericho and it's the same area where Jesus even would have been baptized by John the Baptist. 16:54.540 --> 16:56.264 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll show you pictures of that river. 16:56.865 --> 16:59.912 [SPEAKER_00]: And you say, is it huge? 17:00.573 --> 17:03.199 [SPEAKER_00]: No, we we almost per much called a trick around here. 17:03.432 --> 17:08.216 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, certain places you could about leap across it, but nonetheless that was the area. 17:08.617 --> 17:13.020 [SPEAKER_00]: And we had a chance to see that area and it was neat. 17:13.180 --> 17:14.822 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where they were supposed to go across. 17:14.862 --> 17:19.406 [SPEAKER_00]: It was supposed to happen with Moses and yet, and yet it didn't happen. 17:19.986 --> 17:24.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Whole generation wandered around for 40 years in a wilderness. 17:25.471 --> 17:32.157 [SPEAKER_00]: And what are they known for? 17:32.761 --> 17:41.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Testing God, tempting Him in a wilderness, God had to plague them with serpents, and what did they do, griped and complained to murmured. 17:44.239 --> 17:47.364 [SPEAKER_00]: You like it, you say, how could they be like that? 17:49.167 --> 17:49.587 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 17:50.228 --> 17:56.338 [SPEAKER_00]: I really think if I would have witnessed the crossing of the Red Sea, been enough for me, you know? 17:57.044 --> 18:14.395 [SPEAKER_00]: If I'd had free food every day for my family and never would have been hungry, perfect nourishment from this bread to take to care of all the protein, the carbohydrates, everything that I needed in this meal for free, I would have been like this is amazing, and yet, 18:14.611 --> 18:24.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Through all of this, it was nothing but retired of the manna, we're thirsty, we should have stayed in the world, we should have stayed in Egypt and the griping complaining. 18:24.689 --> 18:29.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Look back with me to the Psalm that I have mentioned Psalm 106 for a minute. 18:39.265 --> 18:42.688 [SPEAKER_00]: You can chance some time later on to read this song. 18:42.708 --> 18:44.650 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a rather long song. 18:44.670 --> 18:48.294 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some 48 verses in it. 18:49.095 --> 18:54.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes through this Old Testament survey with us. 18:55.020 --> 19:04.009 [SPEAKER_00]: But here, if you look with me to verse 24 and 25, yay, they despised the pleasant land. 19:04.049 --> 19:09.154 [SPEAKER_00]: They believed not what? 19:09.370 --> 19:10.992 [SPEAKER_00]: just Moses word. 19:11.913 --> 19:14.136 [SPEAKER_00]: It was God's word given to Moses. 19:15.217 --> 19:16.098 [SPEAKER_00]: What was the word? 19:17.159 --> 19:18.160 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to fight for you. 19:18.180 --> 19:19.202 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do this. 19:19.342 --> 19:20.984 [SPEAKER_00]: You just go in. 19:21.364 --> 19:22.566 [SPEAKER_00]: So the spies go in. 19:22.626 --> 19:23.667 [SPEAKER_00]: They look at the land. 19:23.707 --> 19:29.013 [SPEAKER_00]: They say, yes, everything to God's saying is true, except they're too big for us. 19:29.053 --> 19:29.734 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't beat them. 19:30.735 --> 19:33.859 [SPEAKER_00]: And sure enough, as those spies came back, 19:34.227 --> 19:39.232 [SPEAKER_00]: As we know, the story, how 10 gave the negative, and Joshua and Caleb said, yes, we can do it. 19:39.252 --> 19:56.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just believe God and go in, the majority convinced the people of Israel, the God was wrong, that we couldn't believe what God was saying, and because of that lack of belief, they wandered for 40 years in the wilderness. 19:59.151 --> 20:02.074 [SPEAKER_00]: Folks, we need to believe what God says. 20:03.522 --> 20:09.593 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot going on and Christianity these days and we've been witness to it. 20:10.855 --> 20:17.267 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of it is, I know what God's word says, but I really think that's what they were saying. 20:17.648 --> 20:20.212 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what God said about the Promised Land. 20:20.252 --> 20:24.400 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what He promised for us, but this is how we see it. 20:24.937 --> 20:44.876 [SPEAKER_00]: Now ask you a question, was there confidence in God's word in what God promised or was it in what they were seeing, the things that were tangible, the things that were current, the things that they were experiencing in their hearts and their emotions and everything that was going on inside of them, the doubts, that's what they trusted in and they stopped. 20:46.458 --> 20:50.742 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we've got to be careful of is that we don't do this and then he goes on and says, 20:51.025 --> 20:58.352 [SPEAKER_00]: As a result of the lack of faith, they began to murmur, but murmured notice where in their tents. 20:59.934 --> 21:09.444 [SPEAKER_00]: And then another thing, not out in the streets, but they go back in their own little huddles in their individual groups, and they start saying, what are we doing here? 21:10.545 --> 21:17.792 [SPEAKER_00]: I am so tired of this manna, and the kids are over here waiting for, you know, the manna to feed them. 21:19.055 --> 21:20.417 [SPEAKER_00]: I just can't believe this. 21:20.978 --> 21:21.859 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just horrible. 21:21.919 --> 21:22.600 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see it. 21:22.640 --> 21:25.044 [SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't line up with the way I wanted. 21:25.064 --> 21:25.985 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to be there. 21:26.266 --> 21:27.728 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to see these huge grapes. 21:28.008 --> 21:31.293 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to see this great flowing of milk and honey. 21:31.313 --> 21:32.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to taste those figs. 21:32.795 --> 21:34.878 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to eat those wonderful things. 21:35.199 --> 21:36.361 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to see the sea. 21:36.641 --> 21:38.343 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to know what it was all about. 21:38.584 --> 21:39.505 [SPEAKER_00]: And here we are. 21:39.605 --> 21:40.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are, here we are. 21:40.887 --> 21:42.149 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going my way. 21:42.630 --> 21:48.859 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the meantime, God is saying, I know you're in your tent. 21:49.801 --> 21:55.328 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't have to go to my tent where my glory is at. 21:56.309 --> 22:02.537 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm everywhere, and I can hear, and God can hear, murmuring. 22:05.661 --> 22:06.102 [SPEAKER_00]: You murmur. 22:08.785 --> 22:11.389 [SPEAKER_00]: You're griping complain because it's not going your way. 22:11.449 --> 22:16.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Things aren't just lining up the way you think it ought to be. 22:17.746 --> 22:20.309 [SPEAKER_00]: and you begin to rebel against what God's word says. 22:20.329 --> 22:28.259 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what God says, but I know what God's word says and then we do it. 22:28.960 --> 22:30.982 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what our attitude is supposed to be. 22:32.864 --> 22:39.913 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a result, they failed to walk into what is known now as the spiritual life. 22:41.455 --> 22:45.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, they dwelt in carnality and never 22:45.995 --> 22:47.898 [SPEAKER_00]: flourished from within. 22:49.059 --> 22:50.982 [SPEAKER_00]: They never flourished as a nation. 22:51.963 --> 22:52.725 [SPEAKER_00]: They had victories. 22:53.025 --> 22:54.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, there were certain things. 22:54.327 --> 22:55.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, at least they're shoes didn't wear out. 22:58.493 --> 22:59.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Closed in wear out, right? 23:00.335 --> 23:01.577 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was going pretty good that way. 23:01.617 --> 23:02.779 [SPEAKER_00]: They had plenty of food. 23:02.819 --> 23:03.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything was going pretty good. 23:04.501 --> 23:05.843 [SPEAKER_00]: Physically speaking, 23:06.228 --> 23:09.853 [SPEAKER_00]: But spiritually, you'll not see a whole lot of great spiritual victories. 23:09.873 --> 23:23.830 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like I go from this to this, and Moses is coming in, and Moses is upset with the people, and God's upset with the people, and the people are upset with Moses, and people are upset with God, and nothing's going good, and God says, OK, this is going to be your life. 23:25.092 --> 23:28.035 [SPEAKER_00]: So my learned long time ago is this from Israel. 23:28.396 --> 23:29.097 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to go there. 23:30.619 --> 23:33.282 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see joy in Israel's life in the wilderness to you. 23:35.135 --> 23:39.840 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't come across to me like they love Jesus and that they're real happy people. 23:41.201 --> 23:45.825 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's one thing I want to when I kick bucket, I want to stop right before I die and say, you know what? 23:46.406 --> 23:48.388 [SPEAKER_00]: My life was full of joy and happiness. 23:49.949 --> 23:53.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Not grumbling, gripping, and complaining and I sure don't want to be known for that. 23:56.936 --> 23:58.518 [SPEAKER_00]: Our God is not some God. 24:00.159 --> 24:03.943 [SPEAKER_00]: And He has developed you and I in His creation. 24:05.645 --> 24:12.072 [SPEAKER_00]: to be in His image, and our God is not a grump. 24:12.092 --> 24:21.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Our God is a God of joy, and love, and forgiveness, and mercy, and we are to be in His likeness. 24:24.086 --> 24:32.035 [SPEAKER_00]: But we get ourselves in a way, because we have confidence in what I am, what I think, and set of God. 24:32.776 --> 24:33.897 [SPEAKER_00]: This will get us in trouble. 24:35.176 --> 24:41.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at the last part of verse 25, yet harkened not onto the voice of the Lord. 24:42.410 --> 24:48.583 [SPEAKER_00]: If they're not heating the voice of the Lord, what are they heating, and it will be themselves. 24:49.364 --> 24:53.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Drop them down back to 1 Corinthians 10. 24:53.840 --> 25:03.734 [SPEAKER_00]: These two different times, God uses a word, and King James has translated examples or in samples, this is an exact same Greek word. 25:04.395 --> 25:11.345 [SPEAKER_00]: And the word example literally means a figure that is formed by a blow or impression. 25:12.366 --> 25:18.835 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what happens, if you're gonna make something that is gonna be there, be able to be coffee, they begin to pound, 25:19.000 --> 25:23.806 [SPEAKER_00]: So that when you turn it over, you have this impression and you can actually actually see this. 25:24.206 --> 25:29.092 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the figure here that the Old Testament is examples. 25:29.172 --> 25:30.995 [SPEAKER_00]: It's something that's been going through it. 25:31.315 --> 25:35.080 [SPEAKER_00]: It's now impression so that we can look at it and we can see it. 25:35.820 --> 25:41.407 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a result of that, this is a pattern, not of how to do it. 25:42.148 --> 25:45.312 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a pattern for how not to do it. 25:46.135 --> 25:57.732 [SPEAKER_00]: And he begins to say, listen, this warning is there for you and I of these ruinous events which serve as admonitions and warnings to you and I. 25:58.293 --> 26:03.600 [SPEAKER_00]: So what God is saying is that there's nothing new under the sun, you could do the exact same thing. 26:04.041 --> 26:15.838 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I would never, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 26:16.139 --> 26:21.768 [SPEAKER_00]: ever put the Lord and testing him and tempting him in my life. 26:22.249 --> 26:25.955 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm always happy and content with everything that God gives me. 26:25.975 --> 26:29.320 [SPEAKER_00]: I never cry from complaining about the physical. 26:30.382 --> 26:34.268 [SPEAKER_00]: My food, my clothing, my housing, everything I'm happy. 26:34.288 --> 26:35.911 [SPEAKER_00]: I am as happy as a little lark. 26:36.652 --> 26:37.894 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm this little bird. 26:38.245 --> 26:42.912 [SPEAKER_00]: Twittering and tweeting I am just so happy just singing and loving Jesus. 26:43.212 --> 26:46.177 [SPEAKER_00]: I never gripe and complain about anybody that tells me what to do. 26:48.400 --> 27:06.447 [SPEAKER_00]: I never ever complain against leadership, whether in the home, wives, children, I never complain about the leadership in a church, I never complain about government, I never I am absolutely submitted and yielded all the time. 27:09.548 --> 27:10.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, good for you. 27:15.155 --> 27:17.117 [SPEAKER_00]: What God tells us, though, is this. 27:17.478 --> 27:36.501 [SPEAKER_00]: In verse 11, these were all things that happened unto them before in samples, impressions, for you and I, that are written for our admonition to call attention to, to put it into our mind, that's the admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, interesting statement there. 27:36.970 --> 27:45.821 [SPEAKER_00]: God is trying to say is that that phrase in the ends of the world, the ends of the ages, it's as though it's another way of saying, in the last days. 27:47.804 --> 27:48.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are. 27:48.525 --> 27:53.791 [SPEAKER_00]: In these, the last days, the world is comforted this, if you will. 27:54.212 --> 28:06.387 [SPEAKER_00]: So what he says of verse 12 is this, wherefore let 28:07.210 --> 28:25.077 [SPEAKER_00]: Wherefore, as a result of all that we've been learning about, as a result of all of these admonitions, let this be the effect of all that we learn from the unhappy self-confidence of the Jews to admonish us, not to put reliance on our own strength. 28:27.521 --> 28:28.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Let him that thinketh. 28:29.435 --> 28:32.200 [SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting the different words that God uses here. 28:32.260 --> 28:42.498 [SPEAKER_00]: The word here think, if you say, I understand to think on something, but it means to think, but to judge, to be able to come to an opinion about what is presented before us. 28:42.578 --> 28:46.785 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is not a thing where we're unconscious. 28:47.272 --> 28:48.954 [SPEAKER_00]: of what we're talking about. 28:49.074 --> 28:50.455 [SPEAKER_00]: We know what we're talking about. 28:50.475 --> 28:53.238 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about an immorality or we're talking about a murmuring. 28:53.258 --> 28:56.281 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about lack of loyalty to the leadership. 28:56.301 --> 29:00.906 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about not really being content with what we have. 29:01.386 --> 29:13.178 [SPEAKER_00]: We got our mind all wrapped around, but we're talking about, and it says, let him that think if he's standing, meaning to continue safe and sound, to stand unharmed, 29:13.529 --> 29:15.832 [SPEAKER_00]: to stand ready and prepared. 29:16.172 --> 29:19.536 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, here I am, in my mind, I'm going nowhere. 29:21.298 --> 29:22.800 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm solid as a rock. 29:23.881 --> 29:25.603 [SPEAKER_00]: I would never do this. 29:25.783 --> 29:27.084 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here, I'm loyal. 29:29.487 --> 29:32.751 [SPEAKER_00]: The steadfast of the mind, the quality is there. 29:32.951 --> 29:34.253 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no hesitation. 29:34.413 --> 29:37.096 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not wavering sound like Peter, right? 29:37.777 --> 29:42.642 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about that him that thinketh, here I am. 29:43.178 --> 29:49.544 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, take heed, be cautioned that you don't fall. 29:50.065 --> 29:55.050 [SPEAKER_00]: The word fall there means literally to descend from a higher place to a lower. 29:55.110 --> 29:56.591 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, that's a really deep meaning. 29:56.651 --> 30:00.856 [SPEAKER_00]: It is because it's not just a physical fall. 30:02.337 --> 30:09.304 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a spiritual fall of a position a state that we have in Christ. 30:10.280 --> 30:17.890 [SPEAKER_00]: that we could possibly fall from that position, that state, a spirituality to a lower place. 30:19.352 --> 30:24.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Lower in this text is not where we want to be, because this is not a humbling lower. 30:25.160 --> 30:26.241 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a fall. 30:27.363 --> 30:39.679 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a crash to descend. 30:39.946 --> 30:44.050 [SPEAKER_00]: As Christians, we need to be prepared in our mind. 30:44.331 --> 30:46.773 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give you a, I'm going to give you about six points here. 30:47.974 --> 30:53.080 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to, I want us to think about some, some bad munition that I have for us here. 30:54.882 --> 31:05.953 [SPEAKER_00]: If, if we're going to stand, if we think in our minds that we're not going anywhere, we're going to be there for God, we're going to be there and, and we're not going to fall in the immorality and all these things that we've talked about. 31:06.440 --> 31:07.723 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some things that we need to do. 31:07.763 --> 31:09.929 [SPEAKER_00]: First one is be prepared in your mind. 31:10.330 --> 31:11.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 6, 10 tells us this way. 31:12.014 --> 31:16.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, my brethren, be strong and allowed in the power of His might. 31:17.307 --> 31:23.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wires of the devil. 31:25.120 --> 31:40.316 [SPEAKER_00]: As confident as we might think we are in what we can do or we won't do for the sake of our God, God says, if you are really going to stand, it cannot be a stand in what I can do because you can't do this. 31:41.358 --> 31:43.804 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't win this spiritual battle on our own. 31:46.366 --> 31:51.332 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we're going to stand, it is because we have the armor of our God, prayerfully put on. 31:51.892 --> 31:59.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we are able to resist with the shield of faith, et cetera, against those things that Satan is going to be hurling at us, and he will. 32:01.663 --> 32:04.687 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes we look for the big stuff, right? 32:06.549 --> 32:14.618 [SPEAKER_00]: But oftentimes what happens is these little little little things that come in, that begin to create this fall. 32:18.057 --> 32:24.925 [SPEAKER_00]: be prepared in your mind, of gird up the mind. 32:26.527 --> 32:29.311 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not a time to relax Christians. 32:31.433 --> 32:33.937 [SPEAKER_00]: And I sense that we're relaxing. 32:33.977 --> 32:41.526 [SPEAKER_00]: And the relaxing can be the worst thing for Christians to do in the mind. 32:42.006 --> 32:46.512 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, today I'm going home and I'm relaxing. 32:47.808 --> 32:51.692 [SPEAKER_00]: but we don't relax spiritually in our mind. 32:53.154 --> 33:14.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who have served in the military know that, yeah, there's times that we can sleep because we know somebody else is out there guarding the camp and they're there to protect those who are finally getting their rest, but in a moment, you could hear the sound, they're here, prepare, and those minute men, if you will, will get up and they're ready to arm themselves and ready to defend. 33:15.499 --> 33:17.241 [SPEAKER_00]: That's you and I use Christians. 33:17.913 --> 33:19.335 [SPEAKER_00]: being prepared in our mind. 33:19.375 --> 33:21.979 [SPEAKER_00]: We're always knowing that we're in a battle. 33:22.019 --> 33:26.365 [SPEAKER_00]: The second thing is that grace enables us. 33:28.488 --> 33:32.654 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do it in my own, but I can through the grace of God. 33:32.714 --> 33:35.759 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why Paul said it this way in 1 Corinthians 1510. 33:36.700 --> 33:46.975 [SPEAKER_00]: But by the grace of God, I am what I am. 33:47.191 --> 33:54.922 [SPEAKER_00]: But I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with me. 33:55.202 --> 33:59.788 [SPEAKER_00]: As a Christian, yet we need that grace to be saved for by grace or you saved through faith. 34:00.069 --> 34:01.330 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where it all begins. 34:01.350 --> 34:03.173 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can't earn the salvation. 34:03.694 --> 34:07.359 [SPEAKER_00]: It is by God giving you something that you don't deserve as you gave it to me. 34:07.699 --> 34:11.224 [SPEAKER_00]: But even as Christians, we need God's grace. 34:11.204 --> 34:16.770 [SPEAKER_00]: God giving and enabling us to perform, to do for Him, I cannot do it on my own. 34:17.031 --> 34:25.220 [SPEAKER_00]: It is what God bestows upon me by His very grace and we as Christians don't even deserve the grace to serve. 34:26.341 --> 34:36.132 [SPEAKER_00]: But He gives us the grace to serve Him, the third thing we need to know is that our trust is in the Lord and not in the flesh. 34:36.787 --> 34:38.533 [SPEAKER_00]: He says it this way in Philippians 3-3. 34:39.435 --> 34:48.645 [SPEAKER_00]: For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. 34:49.488 --> 34:49.969 [SPEAKER_00]: Zero. 34:50.573 --> 35:04.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing that I would do ritually, whether it be communion or baptism or any type of an ordinance and ceremonial washings as we witness some of those type of things, nothing that I can ever do in my flesh. 35:04.647 --> 35:05.908 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I have confidence in? 35:06.229 --> 35:08.431 [SPEAKER_00]: My confidence is only in my God. 35:09.632 --> 35:10.893 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a faith principle. 35:13.996 --> 35:16.159 [SPEAKER_00]: The fourth thing is Philippians 413. 35:16.559 --> 35:20.563 [SPEAKER_00]: We know this one. 35:20.847 --> 35:22.008 [SPEAKER_00]: with strength that is made. 35:22.549 --> 35:30.279 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, the confidence is seen here, not in I, but through Christ. 35:31.701 --> 35:33.844 [SPEAKER_00]: In many times, we say, yeah, Jesus going to help it. 35:33.884 --> 35:34.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Look what I've done. 35:35.346 --> 35:36.687 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what it's about. 35:37.909 --> 35:40.072 [SPEAKER_00]: The confidence is never in self. 35:40.492 --> 35:45.899 [SPEAKER_00]: The confidence is in the one who performs and does it for us to the very end. 35:48.523 --> 35:50.365 [SPEAKER_00]: If you do not have that verse memorized, 35:50.969 --> 35:51.790 [SPEAKER_00]: memorize it. 35:54.093 --> 36:12.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, every time you teach, every time you sing, every time you witness to someone, every time you're in front of children and you're getting ready to share, if you think I can do this, I can handle this, you're in trouble. 36:14.542 --> 36:18.968 [SPEAKER_00]: But I can do all 36:20.872 --> 36:25.338 [SPEAKER_00]: The fifth thing is that we have to come to a real understanding. 36:26.719 --> 36:34.830 [SPEAKER_00]: As we examine the Old Testament saying, and we examine the church and the New Testament, and we look at the church, this day and age, we fail. 36:37.653 --> 36:38.074 [SPEAKER_00]: We fail. 36:39.856 --> 36:40.637 [SPEAKER_00]: You will fail. 36:41.218 --> 36:46.845 [SPEAKER_00]: You will not always adhere to every commandment and thing that God wants us to do. 36:48.277 --> 36:52.561 [SPEAKER_00]: So the next thing you have to understand is the grace that forgives. 36:54.163 --> 36:55.404 [SPEAKER_00]: What happens when we fall? 36:58.627 --> 37:01.269 [SPEAKER_00]: We look around at each other and we think, Oh, everybody here is spiritual. 37:01.450 --> 37:02.470 [SPEAKER_00]: The more spiritual than me. 37:03.972 --> 37:05.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody here ever complains in grapes. 37:05.774 --> 37:06.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody ever lies here. 37:07.335 --> 37:08.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has perfect habits. 37:09.497 --> 37:11.059 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no alcoholics here. 37:11.119 --> 37:12.340 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nobody on drugs. 37:12.820 --> 37:14.622 [SPEAKER_00]: We're overall those things. 37:15.378 --> 37:21.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, we're looking at people just right underneath Jesus here, we're about as holy as it gets around here. 37:21.984 --> 37:25.207 [SPEAKER_00]: We're really pretty perfect people around here. 37:27.509 --> 37:36.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I follow you for a week if you think you are there and yet to realize that if we were to follow each other, we'd realize we fail. 37:37.718 --> 37:45.064 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what we have to realize is we look at this text and he's saying, oh, I don't want to fail. 37:46.040 --> 37:49.163 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why, first John, one nine, has been given to you when I. 37:50.944 --> 37:58.731 [SPEAKER_00]: If we confess our sin, he, that is our God, is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and the cleans us from all our righteousness. 38:00.253 --> 38:02.274 [SPEAKER_00]: There is grace for the Christian. 38:03.956 --> 38:15.186 [SPEAKER_00]: If you fall, call on Him, ask for that forgiveness, and it will be there. 38:16.448 --> 38:24.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 24, 16 puts us this way for a just man, falleth seven times and rise up again. 38:25.216 --> 38:27.478 [SPEAKER_00]: But the wicked shall fall into mischief. 38:27.498 --> 38:35.666 [SPEAKER_00]: This is though when they fall, they continue to dwell in the wrong where a righteous man, when he falls, he gets right back up. 38:36.046 --> 38:41.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it's time after time after time, because the heart is just, their faith is in God. 38:42.252 --> 38:46.236 [SPEAKER_00]: They get back up, you don't quit. 38:47.785 --> 38:51.609 [SPEAKER_00]: We could look at Israel and we would say, we wish what they would have practiced that one. 38:52.470 --> 39:02.160 [SPEAKER_00]: You get back up, you don't quit, but it seems like so many times they would just dwell in it and last and last and last and the failure and God says, Christians, we don't want you there. 39:02.180 --> 39:03.161 [SPEAKER_00]: We want you spiritual. 39:08.046 --> 39:13.271 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess what God's saying is, listen, Christians, we need to grow up. 39:13.291 --> 39:17.235 [SPEAKER_00]: We need to realize how important this stuff is for us. 39:17.401 --> 39:27.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And to realize what we're doing for God is it is a powerful thing that we have a fellowship with our God, that we get to serve Him every day of our life. 39:30.316 --> 39:42.530 [SPEAKER_00]: And God wants us to be mature, and not to dwell on the wilderness, this is what they went through. 39:42.550 --> 39:44.893 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to be there. 39:47.287 --> 39:50.251 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to stay before my God, and I want to hear him say, well done. 39:50.271 --> 39:54.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, good and faithful servant enter into the rest. 40:00.084 --> 40:05.631 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's one thing I learned last couple of weeks, is how true this book is. 40:07.774 --> 40:14.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Detailed accuracy to the very spots and sights 40:14.810 --> 40:26.722 [SPEAKER_00]: The geography to the currency, to the people, to every detail from the Old Testament as well as the new, God's Word is right. 40:27.463 --> 40:32.548 [SPEAKER_00]: What our job to do is this one thing, just be a leave it. 40:35.611 --> 40:36.271 [SPEAKER_00]: Father, we love you. 40:36.331 --> 40:37.392 [SPEAKER_00]: We thank you for this time. 40:37.432 --> 40:43.078 [SPEAKER_00]: We thank you for your precious Word that you have given to us. 40:43.953 --> 40:57.128 [SPEAKER_00]: and the English language to be able to have your perfect word preserved beautifully for us that we can read it, we can study it, we can know it. 40:58.429 --> 41:13.386 [SPEAKER_00]: And so now Lord, as we've studied about self-confidence, help us Lord to have no confidence in ourselves, but in you alone, forgive us. 41:14.378 --> 41:21.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Forgive us when we are immature, spiritually, help us Lord to mature spiritually. 41:22.271 --> 41:27.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Lord, there's also some here that may not have come to the beautiful water deflose from the rock of Christ. 41:28.721 --> 41:29.743 [SPEAKER_00]: They have not been saved. 41:30.764 --> 41:36.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, there is no other way for them to get to heaven and be forgiven of their sin than through Jesus Christ. 41:36.923 --> 41:44.338 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray that you'll work in hearts that if there are any here, they do not know Christ's their Savior, that today will be the day of salvation for them. 41:44.939 --> 41:50.570 [SPEAKER_00]: We commit this invitation time, Lord, to you, work in our hearts is individuals as Christians. 41:50.630 --> 41:54.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Work in the hearts of those who may not know you as their Savior. 41:54.558 --> 42:08.268 [SPEAKER_00]: that you would draw them beautifully to yourself, may they see your grace, may they sense and understand your love, and Holy Spirit, please do the job of using your word today, and our hearts and in our lives. 42:08.810 --> 42:14.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Father, for what you'll do, and I pray these things by faith in Jesus' name.