[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn to the book of John chapter 3 verse 16, if you can please stand on it reading God's word.
[SPEAKER_00]: John 3 16 says, for God's soul of the world, that he gave us only, that he got in son.
[SPEAKER_00]: The who-soller, please and him, shall not perish, they have ever lasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading was word you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the most well known scripture in all the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's John 3, 16, and I learned it when I was four years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I've been three, but let's just say I remember learning it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember learning it at Christmas time, and I had to learn a whole lot of scripture for a little boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: John 3, 16 was a lot to learn, but I learned it, and I'm not forgetting it since.
[SPEAKER_00]: I learned it in the King James, of course, because this Bible says eternal life same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: but either way, I always say everlasting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have everlasting eternal life because it's important.
[SPEAKER_00]: and very, very important.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the time of year, many speak of treasure.
[SPEAKER_00]: They think of treasure, they think of coin, they think of those types of things, treasure stuff like that, because people think about that kind of fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not wrong with that except for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This scripture is a grace treasure of all time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So grace treasure of all time, people don't think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't think about the Bible being treasure, but it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great treasure to many, many, many people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to tell you how many, because I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to leave anybody out, but we'll say thousands, why do I say thousands?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it took the people that got spoke to and threw to write it down and then took the people to put it back into print, again, and again, and again, through all the the King James, the NIV, the other versions of some, their guest there was an English version before NIV.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was murdered for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were so many versions, so many people have done the very best they can have to bring this together to take scriptures out.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do I mean by that?
[SPEAKER_00]: People who write books and says, oh, God, and it wasn't necessarily.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they made sure they got the very best of the best and so many people brought it together.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the greatest treasure of all time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Philip, I don't know, people have millions of babies that are trained to dollars.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but guess what, money comes and money goes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this treasure of rest will not take it away.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is something that will bring you everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, you just book no?
[SPEAKER_00]: The one that's book is written about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today, we're gonna look at what three, six teams in the Bible say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's about 59, three, 16s in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a little bit more in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some say, 59, some say less.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some say more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to look at the most important three 16s in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go through all the books that have three 16 in it that some don't because they don't go to that many chapters and some go to that many chapters that end of 14 or 15 or whatnot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's some, there's the three 16s don't apply, they don't apply because the verse doesn't say much or it just talks about names of folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we're not going to go to all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go to about 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: about 30 different verses the best we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to, they're all going to be three sixteenths.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's all going to be one place where we go longer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to be John.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go to that little bit later.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to go through the verses that lead up to John 3, 16, a little bit after.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're going to talk about the great treasure that builds up around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go to Genesis 1st, Genesis 3, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first we're going to go to the Old Testament 3, 16s.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: They build up to John 3, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to Old Testament 3, 16s, Genesis 3, 16s first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we already know where it is leading.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 3 is where sin enters into the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the saddest chapter in some ways, the saddest chapter of all the Bible, because I want you to rethink about how everything was absolutely perfect, everything was absolutely perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Genesis chapter 3 comes in and runs it all, runs it all, runs it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, this is perfect because I want you to think about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because of Genesis chapter 3 that Jesus had to come anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Genesis 3 16 says to the woman, that's Eve, he said, I will greatly multiply women.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what it says now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and childbirth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in pain, you will bring forth children.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this sounds horrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, man, here's his, oh, that's not fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Women might say, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how much pain would have been originally.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can buy me for that, Mama E.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's the reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: The husband was going to leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually got to lead the husband and the woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we know that it's a lot worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's sin happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: It started the whole reason for the 316s.
[SPEAKER_00]: He and she messed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And therefore, sin came in and 316 came in to take care of sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at Exodus 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is number two here, this is so you know, we have about 34.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to look at here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look here, says a Exodus 316, go and gather the elders, this is the Lord speaking, go and gather the elders together and say to them, the Lord, the God of your Father, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, appear to me saying, I am indeed concerned about you,
[SPEAKER_00]: and what has been done to you in Egypt.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is God talking to the children of God, Israel, the Hebrews, about being enslaved, and God is going to free them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see this fits, this fits, because this is what also happens to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been enslaved.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were enslaved to sin, and God wanted to set them free.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is also what happened when they were enslaved, because what happened when they were in the land of Egypt.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to speak of sacrifice as about to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you could call the sacrifice 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what 316's all about.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: This Jesus is going to be our sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Leviticus 316, by the way, forgive me, Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leviticus may be one of the most boring books, but in reality, it's very important because it talks about rules and laws that they had a handful of Leviticus's about.
[SPEAKER_00]: They come to the Levites, those who were in charge of taking care and holding the Ark of the Covenant, we are one of who held the Ark.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the Levites.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Levites were charged of the temple and such, but here's the thing about them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though they were in charge of that,
[SPEAKER_00]: they were not putting the tribes because they were in charge of what was going on in the temple thing of that for a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where Moses and Aaron were from the Levi's.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says this only by 316, the priest shall put them on the altar as a food offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma, all the fat belongs to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen, listen, this is the fat of the things that are sacrificed to the Lord, but here's what we need to remember, all of us have fat.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to give ourselves to the Lord, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the truth is, God is giving sacrifice to us to the sacrifices to be Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the sacrifice, that's 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number 316, Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord as he was commanded.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the children of Levi.
[SPEAKER_00]: He numbered them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, second chronicles, you notice I skipped some things because not all those apply, second chronicles 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second chronicles 316 says then he, they're being little or then he made ornamental chain work like in the most holy place and set it on top of the pillars, then he designed
[SPEAKER_00]: 100 pomegranates and set them on the chain work.
[SPEAKER_00]: The actually what he is not through what I call it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thus he is Solomon building a temple to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is important too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why we skipped all the way to Solomon in the second Chronicles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Solomon is building the ornamental chain work for the most holy place.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the holy of Holy's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holy of Holy's was the place where it was this, the Lord God, and they would have that place where that's where the ark and covenant went.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Ark of the Covenant was the place for the Lord Himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just for the Lord and the High Priest.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they would be in that place.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is where they give all the sacrifices to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have Job 3.16.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Job 3.16 say?
[SPEAKER_00]: Says, or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child?
[SPEAKER_00]: This Job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to remember what he was going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was going through a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe today, you're one of those people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're wonder why you're born.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're wondering why you're born with so many problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're wondering why God has allowed and you go through things you're going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how do we know, only God knows?
[SPEAKER_00]: But instead of question God, remember God knows why he has you the way you are?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's going to use you the way you are, if you'll let him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you got let him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child like infant to never saw life?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is sorrow of the follower.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the sorrow of the follower.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all have it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But remember, that, that three 16, Job three 16, we need to remember John three 16 answers all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this fact that even though we have Sorrow as a follower, we didn't remember all the Sorrow that we have as a follower is answered by the one who's a sacrifice for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had all the Sorrow we have and more and put it on the cross for us and left it there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He died and he rose up and all that Sorrow is gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a sin to sorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a sin to hurt.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a sin to have sorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what they're going to be saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: Christian's going to lie to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to lie to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that's a sin itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're going to say, you're never supposed to have any problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: God promises you're going to have problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sin is not the sorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's what you do with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you let the sorrow hold you down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 360, length of days is in her right hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: And her left hand, rich is an honor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, who is her?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is her?
[SPEAKER_00]: Her is wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Proverbs 3 is really great.
[SPEAKER_00]: We talk about all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why do I want to mention this to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 3 verse 5, we talk about all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the orgas, all your heart, well, we talk about why because we talk about
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and understanding.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's for progress chapter three.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The topic I have wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the length of her wisdom says the length of days in her right hand and in her hand, in her left hand, reaches an honor, which has wisdom, wisdom of who?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: It pleases chapter three verse 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moreover, I saw what was under the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the place of justice, there was wickedness.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just talk about justice today, it's not his school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Justice of the Lord, not of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says, it includes the S316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moreover, I saw
[SPEAKER_00]: What was under the sun and the place of justice there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, there was wickedness, sin coming into a righteous place, sin is coming into a righteous place.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's in some churches, okay, now that's not the verse I'm telling you this, there's sin coming into righteousness in some churches.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do I mean by that?
[SPEAKER_00]: There are some churches in this world in California, for instance, which I'm sure is no shock.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not all churches in California this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to understand that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's many good churches there, many good churches, but there are some churches in California and New York and other places where they teach you about sin being righteous that God made you to be a woman if you're a man or a man to be a woman or what all these that you're supposed to kill babies if they give you away all these other horrible things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, just this week I had someone telling me that you're evil if you didn't vote the way they wanted you to and folks, I'm telling you right now that's saying you can't be a Christian if you didn't vote this way or that way and folks, I'm just going to tell you, you know what's wrong with politics, everybody thinks the right, you know there's only one who's always right, more Jesus is only one who's always right, not you, not you, not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely not anyone on the left or the right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every one of them is wrong sometime.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus is always right.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how a person should live.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet a person changes their viewpoint to fit a person and not the Lord God can come to save the people, that's when we have problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's when we have problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 316 and boy Isaiah is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 316 more over the Lord says, I don't wait for the second.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I forgot and I'm not giving you all chance to look up Isaiah 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 316 more over the Lord says, because get over here now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, that thing is being stubborn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stever like a meal, but luckily your pastor is due.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 360, more of the Lord says because the daughters of Zion are hotty and walk without stress next and walk and eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a twinkling with their excuse me, a tinkling with their feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord, I've read all that around there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that crazy, a team clean with their feet, and it's talking about how Israel was living right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's talking about how the daughter's a Zion that's Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people of there were acting, hottie and walking outstress necks.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were looking around wanting something different than the following the Lord got.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks were that way sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: The children were the Lord that way sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't live correctly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want something different outstress necks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now folks, I've seen women walk like that, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: We shouldn't be that way, but the children are that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever seen do that women?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen him do that, looking around and we shouldn't be that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look around, walkin' eyes, want something different.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Christians do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They want something different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Outstretched in the next, like an ostrich.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should be that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep your eye on Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moreover, the Lord says, because of the, oh yeah, I just read the wrong one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah 316, it shall come to pass when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days, says the Lord, they will say no more.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ark of the coming of the Lord, and it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they call for it, nor will it be made anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say it one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: because so often people ask about the Ark of the Covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't they?
[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder where the Ark of the Covenant said.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder where they put it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder, we have people like Indiana Jones chasing for the Ark of the Covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I watched Jerry's Lost Ark up a couple times a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that film.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what ever happened to the Ark of the Covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've had people who said they found it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've had people, and I found it, I have it right there in my office, a toy or five of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing about the Ark of the Covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't really matter where it's at.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Ark of the Covenant was said in there for a long time in the Holy of Holy's.
[SPEAKER_00]: They put blood upon it, and that was a seek for the chairbims of our planet, and that
[SPEAKER_00]: And a light of the Lord Jesus, the pre-incarnate Christ, so talking, the angel of the Lord, the angel of the Lord will come upon it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got news for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: The angel of the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a need to come there now, because that argument's in your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he is now upon you.
[SPEAKER_00]: His blood is upon your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know some people who said, I've watched them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've said that the argument covenant was literally in the cave underneath where Jesus died on the cross of blood, came down and landed upon it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, this is not getting too stuff that, well, what do we have?
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe I don't know, and to be completely frank, and apologize if I'm being blunt, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I know Jesus Christ is alive in my heart, that's his home.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, this is the Jesus's home.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is his home.
[SPEAKER_00]: He lives here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the argument, he's sitting on the seat right here in my heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know he is yours too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if he's not sitting in your heart, you better change it today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call on to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's ear for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want him to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's see what it says one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah, three, sixteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: It shall come to pass when you are multiplied and increased in the land.
[SPEAKER_00]: In those days says the Lord, they will say no more, the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and it will not come to mind nor will they remember it, nor will they call for it, nor will it be made anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, it tells you right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not needed anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has made my teeth grind on gravel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's made my teeth grind on gravel and covered me with ashes.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is when Jeremiah was going through difficult times and he's lamenting.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has made my teeth grind on gravel and covered me with ashes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I recently had a tooth taken out and just a very thought of that just, ooh, boy, I'm not necessarily something I would like to have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel 316, oh, I love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one says here, it's one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel 316, I'd mark this about as you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel 316, Shadrack me, Shackin' a bed to go answered and said to the king, oh, never can answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: We do not need to give you an answer in this matter and what were they talkin' about?
[SPEAKER_00]: They were talking about the fact that they were not going to answer him because they didn't bow down to the false king.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, this is 316 that there ever was one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because this 316 goes back to the main 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 316 is says there's one way in the oven, one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were thrown into the fire and who showed up with them?
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the pre-incard Christ, the angels of the Lord, I've got to stand up.
[SPEAKER_00]: The angels of the Lord, showed up with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this, if anything, was showing a foreshadowing of what three, sixteen's all about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm gonna tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked this up in middle of the night when I was getting all ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: I finished it here in the church.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was looking up in the middle of night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw that at a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was dancing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dancing in the basement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I was dancing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Praise in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, man Lord, that's a three, sixteen of
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord roars from Zion and sounds His voice from Jerusalem and heaven and earth quake, but the Lord is a refuge for His people and a stronghold for the children of Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the Lord, is it done with them?
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't done with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta remember, they were taking his slaves and they thought their time was done, and don't you know they thought it was?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, in America there's a lot of Christians you think,
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish Jesus just come back, take me home.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not done with you yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quit telling Jesus what to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: You wait for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait for the three 16 to happen to the moment it's supposed to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were doing the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are you to tell God what to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, she's doing what he's telling you to do and be prepared for the three 16 moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause that's what's supposed to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on now, come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: It got me saying, come on, I don't mean two, but a half of it's Nehum, Nehum, three, sixteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we don't read from Nehum very often, most people don't, but it's a good little book.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they talk about the people who are looking forward, they talk about the prophecies and all that, they talk about the little prophets books, it's not because
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little book.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, nayham, three, 16, you have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven, the locus plunders and flies away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm telling you what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was nayham speaking to Nineveh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we read about Nineveh, it's in the book of Jonah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jonah,
[SPEAKER_00]: went there and spoke to these people and they turned the lives around, and they come to no cry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would dig a Lord, they come to know the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the sad thing is we love to think that they follow God and stayed with Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: 100 years later, 100 years later or so, maybe more, maybe less, comes then of a, or excuse we come to name Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Neham then writes this to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see that they are no longer following God.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have all these sinful things happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're having all these false gods, it's horrible things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Neham says that God is going to destroy you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because this is what he says.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, you have all these merchants.
[SPEAKER_00]: And more than the stars of heaven, the tons of us says the locus, plunders, and flies away.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to destroy.
[SPEAKER_00]: The time is going to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: people are not going to listen to the three 16 and they're going to be destroyed because we're not listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are two busy trying to get money and trying to get treasures, the false treasures.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know why I chose this date 315?
[SPEAKER_00]: What it is, it's a 315.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I, this is the closest I can get to 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow is 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zephenaya 316, on that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, fear not, O Zion, let your hands be slack, God will say them, though they don't deserve it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's same for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now if you ever see a Zion, let's talk about Jerusalem, let's talk about them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Zion means, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's not the meaning of it, but that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Malachi, 360's the last of the Old Testament 316s.
[SPEAKER_00]: Malachi 3-16, of course, it's the last book of the Old Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Talk about the reward of the faithful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're going to like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says the reward of the faithful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, the Lord listened and heard them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the Lord and who esteem his name.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's hearing you.
[SPEAKER_00]: God knows what you do, he knows you make mistakes, but he also knows you love him and you place him up high and love him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's go in the last minutes we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to the new Testament, three, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll do my best to go through it as quick as I can.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna promise that we'll be done right up at the time, but we'll do my best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew, three, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 3, 16, and when Jesus was baptized, he came up immediately up out of the water and suddenly the heavens were open to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he saw the spirit of God descending on Him like a dove.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just go ahead and read Heaver's 17 on this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the voice came from heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is kind of interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mark 3-16, normally what fit, all it says is Simon, whom he named Peter, it's all it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's Luke 3-16, which says, John answered them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I indeed baptize you with water, but one minor than I is coming,
[SPEAKER_00]: The strings of whose shoes I am not worthy to untie.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why are these important?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for several reasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, on the first one, we have Matthew 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus was baptized, and then we have Mark 316, we have Simon, who's named Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about the apostles here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have John, who's talking about, though he baptized water, who's talking about Jesus is going to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have John 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: You all know we talked about water, go for God's soul of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was only the God and son, the who's so believe in Him, so not the parents who have everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if I was going to give an order of a gospel, 316, it should be in this order.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 3 16 to be first.
[SPEAKER_00]: John answered them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I is coming, the strings of whose shoes I am not worthy to untie.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will baptize you with a Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Matthew 3 16, and when Jesus was baptized, he came up immediately
[SPEAKER_00]: And suddenly the heavens were open to him and he saw the spirit of God descending on him like a dove.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have Mark 316.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it says Simon, whom he named Peter, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's the Lord God who calls upon us to follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each and every one of us, he calls upon us to follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, of course, John 316 because
[SPEAKER_00]: God calls upon us, but He's also here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's died and saved us for God's soul of the world, but He gave us only.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got in the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: The who sort of believes in Him should not perish, but have ever lasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go through the rest of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Acts 16 and His name by faith in His name has made this man strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: has given him perfect health in your presence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, who has this to talk about?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Peter speaking about this lame man, this lame man who he and John had come and spoken to, and they prayed over him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you may not know of this lame man, but you should, because there's a song about it, and it's happened in Acts chapter three.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see,
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter and John went to prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: They met a lame man on the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: They stuck out their paw.
[SPEAKER_00]: He stuck out his palm and asked for an arm.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this was that they had to say, silver and gold have I done?
[SPEAKER_00]: But says, as I have, give I thee, and the name of Jesus, cry, how high is some Lazarus?
[SPEAKER_00]: Rest of them walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're walking and leaping and praising God, walking and leaping and praising God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the name of Jesus, cry, how high some Lazarus?
[SPEAKER_00]: Rest of them walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were, he was healed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what they're talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have Romans 3, 16, destruction and misery are in their paths.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's Paul talking about?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about the lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about the lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who do not have Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do you know what it says in Romans 3, 10?
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Romans 3, 23, there's none righteous, no not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for all I have sinned upon short of the Lord God,
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 3 is a beautiful, beautiful book, beautiful chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, Corinthians 3, 16, do you not know that you are the temple of God?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that the spirit of God dwells in you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just watching someone speaking about this this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say it one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not know that you are the temple of God?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of my favorite three sixteenths there is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to second Corinthians, second Corinthians, three sixteenth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nevertheless, when anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what is the veil?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means blinded.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means you're blinded.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your blind heart is removed.
[SPEAKER_00]: You now see the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before we need the Lord God, your blind is a back.
[SPEAKER_00]: No offense, any backs out there watching.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may, you couldn't see anything because you were lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had skills on your eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then, wow, they were left again.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Saul, a timeout, Saul of Tarsus, when Saul of Tarsus,
[SPEAKER_00]: was saw the Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was blinded, literally blinded, and then they had a semi-annably was, maybe I'm wrong about that, but he came and prayed over him, and the scales were lifted up over his eyes, were lifted, and he could see.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Saul before he was saved, he could see perfectly, but he couldn't see spiritually at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of people right now of the loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: Walk around blind, it's all good out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blind, it can't see a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you can see, I was talking to a young man just the other day, who physically is partially blind.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was telling him, but you can see better than most of the people in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a better vision than all me know the young man talking about Sam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can see much better than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Better vision.
[SPEAKER_00]: The nation's three 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The nation's three 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the promises, the promise in this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the promises were made to Abraham and his seed.
[SPEAKER_00]: He does not say, and to seeds, meaning many, but and your seed, meaning one who is Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start about salvation to the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: God was going to bring a main seed through him.
[SPEAKER_00]: God brought him, brought salvation through the one, the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 3 16, that he, that's Christ, that he will give you, according to the riches of his glory, power to be strengthened by his spirit in the inner man.
[SPEAKER_00]: dwells in your hearts.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Crest is dwelling in your hearts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boy, I tell you Paul,
[SPEAKER_00]: He gives a lot of good 3, 16s, didn't he?
[SPEAKER_00]: Colossians 3, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and abolishing one another in Psalms and in hymns and spirits of Psalms, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, before we come to the servant time, what do we do?
[SPEAKER_00]: We sing, sing, sing, sing, all right now you might be saying, I'm not good at singing, I don't have a singing voice, listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: God has not set an error waiting for you
[SPEAKER_00]: God does not have to sit now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says grace.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's but she's a nice lady, but here's a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may not sing like Frank Sinatra, baby, but listen, if you sing with all your heart and soul, it give your best to the God, that's all he's asking for.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's asking for your love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: 100% honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a young man, I was singing the hymns right there in the book.
[SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes I got so sick of some of the same ones and I've just got Jesus on me, it isn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once in a great while, I wasn't just going through the words.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would look at them and I was like, wow, these are great songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I go, Jesus loves me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this, I know for the Bible tells me, and when I sing from all heart and soul, it's not the words, it's not the tune, it's the heart, it's the love, that's what God wants, that's what He wants.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lost in the history 16 is a set now first Timothy 3 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this first Timothy 3 16 with that question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great is the mystery of godliness.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, we've revealed in the flesh justified in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing by angels priest by the Gentiles believed on in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taken up into glory isn't that beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's his whole life in just a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Timothy 316, without question, great is the mystery of Godliness, God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by the angels, preached by the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and taken up in the glory, praise the Lord, 2 Timothy 336, 2 Timothy 316,
[SPEAKER_00]: and how you know what's of God, and they will.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard people just a few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone said, he was just written by man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone said to me, he was written by man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Men wrote it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said it was inspired by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second Timothy 360, go back to this every single time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second Timothy 360, all scripture is inspired by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: and is profitable for teasing, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the thing about the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not supposed to be telling the Bible what to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to correct the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to tell the Bible where it's wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is supposed to tell you where you're wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is supposed to correct you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to direct you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever seen people with a map?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're telling the map.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're wrong, ma'am.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to take me this direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, ma'am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take me that direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got the wrong names.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you didn't mean that you meant folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop trying to change the bio to make you comfortable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the problem we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: James 360.
[SPEAKER_00]: Little brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: James 360.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where there is inving and strife.
[SPEAKER_00]: there is confusion and every evil work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say so very often as it says and second Corinthians chapter 14, which we're not gonna get to, but it says that confusion is out of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is not the author of confusion, it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we see right there, it says, for where there's inving and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's at the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: and people oftentimes go to that direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, three, six to eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I relate to Peter quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could probably imagine why.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we all knew a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could all be bullheaded.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could all be,
[SPEAKER_00]: a little full of ourselves at times.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could be angry, you know, we all got those human.
[SPEAKER_00]: But by the way, they probably all had it, the Peter's one we know the most.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, three, 16, have a good conscience.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the evil doers who speak evil of you, and falsely, accuse your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a hard one, it's a hard one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, people a lot of times.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this this morning in the Senate, it's going to come out justice, weren't we?
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times in justice, we see in our own selves, I've told Matt how, a lot of times, I always saw myself as the hero, surprise, surprise, the man who has Superman on his hood.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I always wanted to see myself as the good guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And therefore, if you did me wrong, and this is a very dangerous thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see,
[SPEAKER_00]: everyone else is a bad person who does you dirty, then you see yourself justified in getting even see.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't necessarily do that, but people a lot of times do if they have a quam with someone, then they can put a villain name or you see it politically, people put a villain stamp on somebody, then you're justified in doing dirty things to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: As long as you put a villain stamp on it, I'm not going to just tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only villain, so to speak, the only evil, so to speak, is Satan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who uses people?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, even Christians sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because even Christians are human and they're wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we need to remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we need to think like Peter said here, have a good conscience so that he will do us who speak evil of you and false it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Choose, listen, falsely,
[SPEAKER_00]: What if they're not ashamed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not happening because I guarantee you the deep down they do feel bad and it will just as we'll come and God's taught me not ours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, second Peter three 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is, oh, this is a good one I mentioned it before.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is about polls writings.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are people who believe it or not, don't listen to Paul's writings.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's because Paul's blood is a spoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a spoon, but he tells the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul knew more than just about any of them when it came to what the Jews said, the Jews saw the Jews's ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hated the Gentiles and yet God used him to go speak to the Gentiles.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean when he was Christian, I mean when he was Saul and he thought that God didn't like him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was racist so to speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was prejudiced but God changed him from the inside for 14 years where he went out preaching.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Saul was used to go speak to the Gentiles.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how God works he.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he went to do all that and a lot of people say we don't listen to the Pauline scriptures.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of weird sounded I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't listen to the Pauline scriptures.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not of God they say.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they'll listen to all the others, including first and second Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen what Second Peter says in Second Peter 316, as in all his letters, taught my Paul, if you read the letter or the scripture before and you see what they're talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: As in all his letters, he writes about things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me, he writes about these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with some things, a hard to understand,
[SPEAKER_00]: with the unlearned and unstable distort as they also do the other scriptures to their own destruction.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter's saying this about Paul's scriptures, his letters.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people can't take Paul's stuff out without taking out Peter's, without taking out the rest of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: See this is what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: You try to take the word of God out of context and start destroying things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You destroy yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, John 3, 16, I love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't got two more here.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, John 3, 16, by this, we know the love of God, that he laid down his life for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's time about fellow brothers and sisters, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: They were in danger all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Revelation 3, 16, the good one.
[SPEAKER_00]: This talk about the church of La Dosia,
[SPEAKER_00]: So then because you are lukewarm and need a cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth as with the Lord says There's a lot of Christians who are like the Leo de Cien's They're very lukewarm but I'll fire for Christ They're so lukewarm.
[SPEAKER_00]: I Don't know about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want God to see me spit me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want that We need to be on fire for Christ born again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's turn a John chapter three
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, he came to Jesus by night.
[SPEAKER_00]: His trans-day Savior came by night and said to him, to Jesus, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God.
[SPEAKER_00]: For no one can do the assignments that you do unless God is with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus had already done a lot of miracles and things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus answered him, truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nakedeema said to him, how can a man be born when he is old?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't he enter a second time to his mother's womb, and be born?
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus answered him, excuse me, Jesus answered, truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born a water and a spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again.
[SPEAKER_00]: The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear it sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So is with everyone who is born in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nicodema said to him is verse 9.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nicodema said to him, how can this be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now Jesus answered to him, answered him, are you the teacher of Israel?
[SPEAKER_00]: verse 11, truly, truly I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness of what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
[SPEAKER_00]: And listen only says, our testimony is Trinity speak, our testimony.
[SPEAKER_00]: verse 12, if I have told you earthly things, then you do not believe how would you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
[SPEAKER_00]: No one has ascended to heaven except he who descended from heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even the Son of Man who is in heaven, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
[SPEAKER_00]: that whoever believes in him should not perish, but may have eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go, John 3 16, for God's so low the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish to have eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 17, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now folks that doesn't mean maybe they're saved so they can be saved so that they will be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 18, this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: verse 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 19, this is the verdict that the light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 20, for everyone who does evil hastal light and does not come to the light, let's his deeds should be exposed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 21, the last one, but he who does the truth comes to the light that it may be revealed that his deeds have been done in God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ, for your word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Lord God, that you're speaking to us through your word through the three sixteenths of the Bible, and Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you, Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three sixteenths, the greatest treasure that you will ever find because it will tell you how to live.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will tell you where to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will tell you in each and every time,
[SPEAKER_00]: What you need to do, every time you have sin, every time you make a mistake and I do too, every time you trip, get back up again, follow Jesus Christ because He loved you so much, He looks beyond your mistakes and He got on the cross and when He was putting the grave, He got up from the grave and He ascended into heaven, He loves you that much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the greatest treasure you will ever find.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will close with one more through 16, which we did not go over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, May the Lord of Peace and Self give you peace always in every way, the Lord be with you all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's bound for Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: We thank you so much for loving us and looking beyond our sins and Lord God, not because
[SPEAKER_00]: Not because you're looking past them, Lord, but that you died for them, that you erased them, Lord God, that your blood was shed for us, Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that, in all the three sixteenths that we looked at today, we see that you, Lord God, you, died, you, Lord God, became the Lamb for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You, Lord God, for put on the altar for us, for Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for racing our sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray, Lord, I see it all the time that people use three, 16 is a mockery as a joke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they don't even realize what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it in wrestling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it in sports.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've put it out there in signs.
[SPEAKER_00]: They put it on shirts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they mock and they laugh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray right now, the next time someone sees it, they look deeper into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll see what it really means.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll put three, 16 into their life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll understand that it's about the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that Lord God, their whole eternity can be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they truly understand, I pray the scales we've lifted from their eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll come running towards you when they see what's really going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for this and your holy precious day, Lord Jesus, that we be saved today.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll continue to serve you in Jesus' name, amen.