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1 Corinthians 3:18,23 -The Reality Check- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2024-03-10
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First Corinthians chapter three verses 18 through 23. Would you please stand with me as we read God's holy word together? First Corinthians chapter three beginning with verse 18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, he take the wise in their own craftiness. And again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain. Therefore, let no man glory in men for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours. And you are Christ and Christ is God's. Father, thank you so much for your holy word that we regain perspective. Lord, we get all disjointed and we get all scatterbrained and messed up. And Lord, when we come back to your word, everything is in alignment, everything fits, everything works. And Lord, the world is is right around us, Lord, because we we're focused upon you and not the craziness of the times in which we're living. And Lord, we pray once again that you calm our hearts, that you fill us to overflowing with your love, that we'd experience your peace that surpasses all understanding, would guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. We pray, Lord, that we'd grow spiritually, that our faith would grow, that our lives would reflect who you are, that we'd grow in love and and kindness and the fruit of the spirit. So God bless now we pray. Instruct and teach us in the way we should go, Lord. Help us, Lord, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Would you please be seated? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. The Corinthians were delusional is a word that, definitely fits today. The delusion, the mass hysteria of the times in which we're living. You go on the YouTube, to try and gain any kind of understanding of what the bible's teaching. You go to all these YouTube prophets and everybody all over the place. I've never lived in such a time where anything goes. Anything that people think, you know, all of a sudden is is biblical truth, but people don't check it out, you know. And so the Corinthians were delusional. They needed a reality check. They lost touch of reality, kinda like the twilight zone. They thought of themselves as to be so wise as they embrace the wisdom of the world at the expense of the true wisdom of God. They stopped fearing the Lord, which puffs them up with pride, left them open to deception. They were left open to destruction. They were left open to division. Paul seeks to correct the problem by providing a reality check based upon the true wisdom of God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Notice first of all, pride deceives. Verse 18, let no man deceive himself, self deception. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise. And so in the Greek, it means stop deceiving yourself. Stop it. Quit deceiving yourselves. Be not deceived, a great podcast. Take heed that no man deceive you, Jesus said. Wake up, smell the coffee, you know, snap out of it. Why are you so seduced? Why are you so asleep? Why are you wanting to go back to sleep? And that's the frustration I have in my heart with the pastors because they don't wanna teach prophecy because they're afraid their people will be filled with fear. And if they're filled with fear, then they'll leave the church. So what's that saying? Let's keep them asleep. Let's give them false sense of reality. Let them live in denial that, hey, everything continues as it always has, which is a fulfillment of prophecy that Peter said. Scoffers would come in the last days saying, where is the promise of his coming? Everything continues as it always has, you know. Well, they're willingly ignorant, not understanding that God's long suffering, not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. And so I'd much rather be told the truth and have to grow up, have to face the reality of the world in which I'm living. And when I'm when I see the reality, when I see the difficulty, and I see my weakness, and I have to admit there's a certain level of fear maybe, then I say, you know, Lord, strengthen my faith. Help me, Lord. I I don't wanna live in denial. I don't wanna live, you know, in a in a Christian little bubble acting like it's never gonna happen again. I don't wanna move somewhere and let's develop a compound and act like it's not happening here, you know, every the whole world goes on, but we're gonna be utopian here in this little place or whatever. I mean, that's that's crazy. We're to be in the world but not of the world. We're not to isolate ourselves. We're to interact. We're to be soldiers, you know. We're to be moving forward against the lies. We're to stand for righteousness. Don't cower in fear. There should be rejoicing looking up knowing that our redemption draws nigh, but the churches won't teach the preacher of rapture. They won't teach prophecy. And these guys here, they were they they lost touch with reality. They're being smoothed. They're being seduced by the false prophets, and they don't have the fear of the lord. They're all puffed up. I'm a Paul. I'm a Apollos. I'm a Cephas, you know. They got factions and divisions and all sorts of things happening in the church. It stems from pride and that pride causes self deception. Paul's saying, you know, if you were smaller in your eyes, then you'd really have some wisdom be because you're so puffed up, you're so easily deceived by the wicked one. So your pride has blinded you and made you a fool. Intellectual pride. Plato has said, he is the wisest man who knows himself to be very ill equipped for the study of wisdom. Quintilian said said of certain students, they would doubtless have become excellent scholars if they had not been so fully persuaded of their own scholarship. When I was in the school ministry, we had guys that were really good with the Greek and boy, they they really thought they had it. Now only half the students graduated in that class over two years, but the Greek was used by Carl to kinda bring because it takes twelve years to master the Greek language, you know, in that in that sphere, the Koine Greek. So even if you got a one or two years in Greek, you learn the alphabet, you learn to parse a few verbs and and things like that and and know the definition of some words, you're still way way inadequate to be a quote unquote Greek scholar. And you'd see these guys, where pastor Chuck is teaching the epi experience, and he's writing upon the ball upon the chalkboard, you know, the the the holy spirit shall come upon you, the epi. And he had didn't have a one little one little little jot there, and, one of the guys corrected him, and pastor Chuck would, you know, do this, and that would be don't go in the flesh. Don't go in the flesh, you know, reminding himself. Don't go in the flesh with this guy. And And then afterwards, as he's leaving, he just went by the board and went like that and walked out, you know. But it's so amazing that these guys would be so puffed up, and then pastor David Hawking came in and he says, gentlemen, and he is a scholar, and so is pastor Chuck. He he said, gentlemen, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. You get a little bit more knowledge than the average Joe working a job forty, fifty, sixty hours, and all of a sudden you think, man, I'm I'm the bastion of knowledge, you know. And so you it's your pride's gonna get in the way. And and so they there's an old proverb. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, avoid him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a wise man, teach him. We need to be teachable, always teachable. Lord, teach me. Lord, help me. Proverbs one verse seven that says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. There's a religious pride that deceives. In John chapter eight verse one, the religious leaders came with a woman and brought him before Jesus. Jesus went out early in the morning to teach upon the Mount Of Olives, and they bring this woman, to Jesus and say, hey, she was caught in the very act of adultery. No. They didn't bring the guy, just the woman. In the very act, the law says she should be stoned. What do you say? And Jesus knelt down with his finger, the finger of God that wrote the 10 commandments, the finger of God that wrote many, many, Teko, you farson upon the wall in Daniel five with Belteshazzar. You've been waiting the valance found wanting. Your kings have divided from me and given the Medes and the Persians. The finger of God what was he writing down on the ground? I wrote a book about it. Did get that book? I know what he's writing there. Nobody knows. People speculate. And then he stands back up and he says, he that is without sin cast the first stone. Oh. And then he kneels back down, he starts to write on the ground again. Some have said, and I like this, this speculation, some have said he's writing on the ground these very guys that are accusing their sins, the women they were with, they were. He was basically showing them their computer hard drive. Look. Yeah. Look at here. Look what you've been doing. Oh. And from the eldest down to the youngest, they began to walk away. And I I picture them with their sandals over that dirt. Nobody can see it. And then she's the only one. Left there, and he says, where are thine accusers? You remember in Revelation 12, Satan's the accuser of the brethren, the one that condemns, the one that finds fault, the one that holds the letter of the law. And Satan doesn't need to lie about me or you. We're all guilty. But that's not why Jesus came. He didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. And so she says, nowhere, Lord, and he says, neither do I condemn thee. And he's not given a, you know, sloppy agape or licentiousness or anti anomianism, no law. He says, go and sin no more. Because in his love, he doesn't want her to succumb to a lifestyle of adultery and fornication. He wants to elevate her to a life of holiness. So neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more. Repent. Turn from this. Unless the worst thing happen to you later, you know? But the religious pride of the religious leaders, they're trying to entrap Jesus, and they began to show them how ludicrous it was to move in that way, to move in that direction, to try and do something like that. They understood not the whole purpose of his coming. There was another time in Luke 18 where a Pharisee and a publican came to the temple to pray, and Jesus said he was illustrating, this principle of one person applauding his own self and and at the same expense, you know, condemning somebody else. And so the pharisee came in and he prayed, thus with himself, Jesus said, I thank thee, God, that I'm not an extortioner, that I'm not unjust, that I'm not an adulterer, and that I'm not like this publican over here, this tax collector, at April 15, you know? And and then the publican wouldn't so much as lift up his eyes onto heaven. Well, then the guy said, you know, I fast twice a week, and I give tithes to all that I possess. And then the publican wouldn't so much as lift up his eyes onto heaven, but smote his breast and said, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And Jesus said, this man walked home justified, not the other. And so Jesus gave a principle, he gave an understanding that those that exalt themselves are gonna be abased. Those that abase themselves, humble themselves, are gonna be exalted. And so pride is blinding. Pride will keep you from the true riches, the true wisdom that we need when we think we're better than somebody or we think we're, you know, that we've got all knowledge, that we we don't need to learn. Hey, I've read the bible already. I read through it already, you know. I I I was I was born in a Christian home. I I I know what you're talking about. I got it all. No, you don't have it all. Do you know him? Do you know Jesus? It's not knowledge puffs up. Love edifies. Do you know him? Do you know his love? Do you have intimate knowledge? Do you have experiential knowledge, or is it just head knowledge? You may know of Joe Biden. Hopefully, you're not his close intimate friend either, you know. But you can have facts about Clinton or or any president or Tom Brady or whoever it might be, but and have a whole lot of facts concerning them thinking you have knowledge, you know who they are, but you've never met them, you don't really know them. And for Jesus, Christianity is knowing him. Paul said that I might know him, that I might get to know him through the study of his word, through sitting at his feet, through worshiping him, through being a doer of the word, not a hearer only. In second Samuel 12 verse one, Nathan the prophet came to David and said, David, you're the man. What did David need at that moment? A year after sinning with Bathsheba, a year after killing Uriah, her husband. What did David need? He needed a reality check. He was delusional. He was fighting the holy spirit. He was living a lie. In Psalm 32, Psalm 38, Psalm 51 is his description of what he was going through internally, drying up inside, living a lie. Are you living a lie this morning? Do you need a reality check? Do you need a Nathan to come up and tell you a little parable about a man that was rich and but took his neighbors one little ewe lamb and butchered it to feed all of his friends. And David said, that man will surely die in his hypocrisy, in his self righteousness. And Nathan says, David, you're the man. You're the king, but you're the man. You're the guy that's guilty, and you're not gonna die, David. But the sword's not gonna depart from your your family. There's gonna be consequences which you've done. You've done this in secret. God's gonna expose it publicly. Your son Absalom's gonna do a coup on you. He's gonna take your wives up upon the palace and go in onto them in his tents and stuff publicly. You betrayed Ahithophel, your best friend, the grandfather of Bathsheba. And David, yes, the child's gonna die, but you're not gonna die, David. God in his grace and mercy brings forth, you know, Solomon later, and and the Davidic dynasty continues to go through the the loins of David through Nathan, all the way down to Jesus being the babe of Bethlehem through Mary, and the legal line through Joseph in Matthew one. So God's grace, we see his grace, his mercy, but David needed to be awakened. He needed to be awakened from his sleep. He needed to experience that intimacy with God once again because he was outside fellowship with him. David was self deceived. He was delusional. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. If your friends won't come up to you and shake the finger at you and say, David, you're the man, then they're a sycophant. They're sycophants. They are they're enamored with your position. David's the king and Nathan has the guts to do it. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Otherwise, you are led to a place of being the emperor with no clothes. You're naked and everybody knows about it, but nobody has the guts to tell you what you're doing. So you're a fool out there. You're you're you're you're gone mentally. The the sycophants are always coming over to you and whispering real good things. Oh, you're great, man. You're great. I look at Obama as one of those. He's like his chin's up. He's the biggest like, he's like the Biden. He's just a huge failure, but he's got this pride that puts his chin up. Why you got your chin up? You're blinded by pride. You're the biggest fool ever. You're gonna spend eternity in hell. But you're so boastful and proud. You know? Don't even see it. But the sycophants, the people that are around him, oh, yeah. Keep going. You're doing great things. You're doing great things. No. He needs a mom or a dad, somebody to give him a whooping. Take him to the shed, you know, the woodshed and and and get him to come out of that. But he's got nobody, does he? Nobody has the guts to do it. And the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Favor of the wounds of a friend, the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Judas betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss? Are you kidding me, Judas? We spent three and a half years together. Broke bread together, served together. Now you're gonna come and betray me? You're gonna call the Jay Inslee snitch line and turn me in for $2 for 30 pieces of silver, Judas? You're gonna pince me, man. Stab me in the back. And how did Jesus look at him? He said, he called him friend. Betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss? How did he look at Peter when Peter denied him three times? Says, he locked eyes. It wasn't a look of condemnation, it's a look of love. It wasn't the look of I told you so, was a look of I'm gonna restore you. I'm gonna build you back up, Peter. Judas went out and wept bitterly. His plan didn't work. His sorrow was a worldly sorrow. Peter had a godly sorrow that led to repentance. When the Asbury so called revival was taking place, so scheduled and so just perfectly timed, you know. I remember saying, and people didn't like to hear it, that you know what, I need to see some repentance. I'm gonna give it some time. If we see repentance, if we see changed lives, then it's a true revival. A year later, the churches and surrounding area of Asbury College, no change. No change in the lives of all those students, those people that that said there was this big revival going on. A fraud. So many people wanting what they want lost touch with reality and no mention of repentance, of turning from our sins. Accusing everyone and politicians, the whole thing, but judgment begins at the house of God. We're delusional if we think we're gonna win America back in our sinful condition. We're being judged. We're in the throes of being destroyed, and the church is afraid to speak the truth because it might lose a few people. It's interesting to me that nobody's moving to Washington to be a part of this church. They wanna move? Great. Move to Washington. Come die with me. They're fleeing, aren't they? The Titanic's sinking and the rats are fleeing, man. They're fleeing. They're trying to find a place to peacefully coexist with the chaos in Washington and economic forum and the billionaires and all the nut jobs out there is breaking down. Well, know we'll vote. We'll fix it with voting. How'd that work for you last time? Do you even think we're gonna get to the to voting? Do you think they're not gonna allow a nuke to go off in New York or some radical false flag that just totally brings us nations to its knees with the invasion of all these illegals and immediately given these illegals guns? Places to live and financially, you know, underwriting them and their Chinese military youth by and large. What do you think's happening? Economic crisis, food crisis, destroying your food, production of food. They wanna mark every cow. If they don't use directed energy weapons in the Panhandle Of Texas and kill 7,000 heads of cattle, they're destroying the production facilities all over the place and want you to eat crickets and bugs. And and the crickets and bugs, they don't have the protein for you to be able to subsist upon. It's too expensive, and you'd have to have piles of it to try and equate with a simply eat a steak. The amount of amino acids and protein dense salmon and such. Guys, they're nut jobs. Absolute nut jobs. And you can hear Greta and you can hear him save the planet. Save the planet. Kill the people. Kill the people. Nut jobs. Delusional. And it's a cult. It's a religion. It's it's so seductive, so insane. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Nathan told David the truth, gave him a reality check. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. So where's the secret place of wisdom? Humility, brokenness before the Lord. You're the church of Laodicea. You're saying, hey, we're rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing. You're delusional. You've kicked Jesus out of the church. He's on the outside knocking on the door. You've kicked him out. You're delusional. You're self deceived, church of Laodicea, lukewarm. You make Jesus sick. You think your riches and increase with goods means it's God's blessing on your life. You've fallen in love with the softness and the pleasure and the blessings, and you've kicked the blesser out the building. You won't teach his word. You won't teach prophecy. You won't teach that he's coming soon because you're afraid that the people might lose their stuff. It's all about the stuff. Jesus said, in response to their delusion, knowest thou not that thou art wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked? You don't even know it. But the pastors wanna pacify you and keep you there. Just keep you right there. Don't worry. No. We don't. If you're filled with anxiety right now, we don't let you spark up a hooter. No. You can't smoke pot here. But if you need a gummy, you can take a gummy now. Go ahead. Calm yourself down. This is a gummy moment. Deceive not yourselves, Jeremiah thirty seven nine. The Egyptians came to help Judah. The Babylonians with Nebuchadnezzar were gonna destroy Jerusalem by God's hand. Nebuchadnezzar, my servant. And there was a little point in time there where the false prophets finally were shouting in victory because the the siege that was put upon the city of Jerusalem, Nebbe and his armies had to move away to subdue the Egyptians who were coming coming near from Egypt to try and, you know, undermine what they were doing. And so the false prophets, see, we're right. We're right. Jeremiah's wrong. Jeremiah's wrong. And God told Jeremiah, let them know, don't be self deceived. Don't deceive yourself. Don't don't listen to these false prophets. Nebbe's coming back, and he's gonna destroy this city just as I've been warning you and telling you. I've given you space to repent. This prophet's been here for forty years calling you under repentance, but you won't listen. You keep in your delusion thinking that somehow you're gonna get away with keeping all your stuff, keeping the blessings, but you've kicked me out. We're gonna see tomorrow night in in Jeremiah 44 where they're worshiping the queen of heaven, Where they're worshiping these idols. They wouldn't let the idols go, the idols of the world. There are remnants over in Egypt now, but they're so quick to go worship the idols of Egypt, the idols of the world, to throw God under the bus. That's the problem. Come back to repentance. Come back to the Lord. Worship him in spirit and the truth and watch God fight for you. Watch God fight for us. And if we go down, at least we go down glorifying the Lord. Instead of cowards running away from the fight. God's gonna give the world a strong delusion in second Thessalonians two eleven because they reject the truth. They're given over by God to a strong delusion that they'd worship the antichrist, that they believe the antichrist lie that you can be as God. The the the lie propagated by the serpent, by the devil in Genesis three in his temptation of Adam and Eve that you can be as God. And whether it's Elon Musk or any other technocrat or maybe that's unfair to Elon, maybe he hasn't said it, but you've all know Harari. You guys are gonna be hybrids. You're never gonna die your generation. And people believe that lie. And why are they susceptible to that strong delusion? Because they've rejected the truth. Same thing in Romans one, you suppress the truth. You deny God his glory that's due his name as the creator, and you begin to worship and serve the creature rather than the creator. God will give you over to a base mind to practice base things. Men with men, women with women. Oh, there's $2,000 right there. Turn me in and then tithe from it. Okay? Just tithe from it. We could make this work for us. Apparently, can do it anonymously. And I know some of you are planning it. Oh, pastor, we never do that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alright, Judas. Hey. I see you back now. 30 pieces of silver. Yeah. Okay. I would never. I would never. Yeah. Right. Okay. Alright. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Number one, pride deceives. Secondly, pride destroys. Verse 19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. So worldly wisdom is foolishness, it's moronic. That word foolish means moronic. These guys are morons. The evolutionary theory is moronic. When it was first hit in the stage, the world stage, the church felt so insecure, so inferior to these so called intellectuals. The Darwinian's evolution. The trials with the monkeys and all this other sort of thing that many of the those in the church and their seminaries began to teach a doctrine, a false doctrine of theistic evolution. God got it started, but then it evolved. It evolved from there to make ourselves look smarter. And Charles Spurgeon was trying to hold the line, hold the line of modernism that was creeping into the church. The church lost its sense of confidence in the word of God and God of creation. And there was the backpedaling, the back and that Spurgeon's wife said that's what killed him. That's what killed him. He carried that burden of watching so many lunatics give in to the idiocy. It just broke his spirit. It broke his heart. It's just sad when you're living in a time like that. It's just sad. It's just so sad. It destroys people's lives. Sex education? How moronic. You're not you're not teaching anything about wholesomeness and how God designed sex and a family and the and and the the designer, how he designed it. Instead you're teaching perversion. You're taking away the innocent ears of the children and teaching them things that they shouldn't even be knowing yet, be involved in. Now now you're going beyond that. Now you're confusing them and saying they may not be a boy or genetically or a girl that they need a sex change. Hey. There's $2,000 right there. That's 2,000. We're gonna get rich from this. I can't hold back. It's moronic. Or that of abortion. I like the better word murder. You've murdered millions and millions of babies because of unwanted pregnancies. Because you're promiscuous, you're not using sex or exercising sex, enjoying sex in the context of marriage, one man, one woman for one lifetime. Now you have unwanted pregnancies. You don't wanna be a mom, you don't wanna be a father, you don't wanna start a family. You jump the gun, and rather than putting the child up for adoption, you're gonna murder the child. And you're gonna do it in the abstract trying to present to people that it's your choice to murder this child. And it is a child. It's not a fetus, not a blob of tissue. This is a child that you have decided to play God and to murder. Plenty of families out there that would adopt these children, but better yet, do the right thing. Be abstinent. Exercise sex on your your your marriage night. How about that? That's the old school way. That's the way God designed it. But we're gonna break this country down. We're gonna use a demonic communistic effort to demoralize a nation. We're gonna take them away from the strong families of the fifties, and we're gonna bring in a sexual revolution in the sixties that degrades women and men in the family. And over the course, and we'll be patient over the course of time, we're gonna forbid people even to marry and be given in marriage or to eat meat. How'd I get that in there? I just did. I got it in there. War is peace. We're all about peace, but we're gonna invade nations. No prayer. No bible in the schools. Why would you take that out? How could it be there for a hundred and fifty years, and then you decide in the '61 and '63 that you're gonna take it from the classroom? The very first textbook of the the public education is the bible. Our our country commissioned the bible to be printed and put in every public school. That's why in the fifties, the unbelievers had a greater morality than Christians today because even the unbeliever knew with the 10 commandments on the wall and in the courts and the bibles that were presented, bible class, that adultery is wrong. The fornication's wrong. Lying, cheating, stealing's wrong. Honor your father and mother, you know? You take that away. You take that teaching away and you make it a existential humanistic philosophy of each person trying to decide with their own little minds what's right or wrong. Now you've sown to the wind you reap in the whirlwind. If you truly love, you give parameters, you give guidance, you train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Global warming, give me a stinking break. Inconvenient truth, what what a bunch of garbage, Al Gore. The polar bears are doing just fine. It's cyclical. No there is no evidence that can prove there's such a thing as a carbon causing a global warming that's gonna destroy the planet, and it's us useless eaters that are breathing out the c o two that are the problem, and the plant life needs the c o two and gives off oxygen, a perfect environment, carbon taxes, outsourcing all of our jobs to China. These other countries, Ross Perot, when he was running for office, he said, you hear that sucking sound? It's all of our jobs being outsourced to China and other countries. Why? Because we're just useless eaters here. They're gonna use robots at McDonald's. You're not even gonna get those high minimum wage jobs. But oh, by the way, Panera Bread, they get to have a lower price because they're my friends, you know. Who does this stuff? Who can do that stuff? How's that work, you know? I just decide Panera Bread doesn't have to, you know, pay the minimum wage in California. Well, you're forcing industry to put robotics in there. Nobody's gonna have a job. Maybe one or two people, or used to have 40 people, making those McDonald burgers, you know. Mike told me he hasn't ate one a year. Any of you still eating that garbage? Do you know what senate Bill Gates is making the the the french fries now? Do you really want that stuff in you? I'll do your funeral, you know. Crazy. Crazy stuff. Agenda 21, agenda twenty thirty, endangered species. We're not gonna be able to move forward because there's a kangaroo rat over here, you know? Fire breaks out, kills all the kangaroo rats. Oh, we can't cut trees down. Boy, we're sure cutting them down now. But that spotted owl, we spotted a spotted owl in a Walmart sign over there, you know. We can't we can't cut trees over here. Then you got a bark beetle, trees, your husbandry, your ability to to tend the forests are such that now you got the bark beetle climbing tree to tree to tree throughout Canada, destroying the trees if you'd have selectively cut and, you know, served and ministered the way you're supposed to in your stewardship, you'd have great great forest for the future. But hey, just cut them all down anyway because we don't want those preppers hiding in the in the forest. So let's just set it all on fire now. Let's kill all the deer and the elk and everything else. Let's reintroduce wolves to take the top predators all the way down. We better learn how to eat squirrel pretty soon. Right? Vaccines. God. Doctor Russell Blaylock talked about how when my generation was growing up, you know, there might be five vaccines that we received. Not that we should have, but we're duped into it. And the whole smallpox thing that kids are getting vaccines for smallpox a day, and then when they get into college, they need a booster. And nowadays it's called, what's it called? No. You know what it's called. As adults, it'll come to me. It'll come to me. Shingles. Shingles. Yeah. When you're little, it's smallpox. When you're older, now it's shingles. And if you'd had just had a smallpox party, you heard that somebody in your community had smallpox, all your moms send your kids over there, they all get it and it's over with. You're done. That's how doctor Russell Bladelock said they handled it. He's a neurologist. He knows what he's talking about. He knows the effects of the different mercury and and different, adjunct things that use timersol used in the state of Washington. And as they use, twenty, thirty, 40, 50, they bundle these vaccines. The autism goes up five thousand percent, destroying the kids. Mark Dinsmore sent me a a an email of three different types of children's food of like applesauce and stuff with toxic levels of lead put in these foods. No reason for lead to be in those foods, but they've got it loaded with lead. Where's it coming from? China? You think China loves us? Yeah. Think of trying to wipe out our kids? Gotta track and trace every single thing you put in your mouth, but then the air, the air man, the chemtrailing, the spray in us, we're not gonna get out of thing alive. But even death is ours. Paul's gonna finish up in this section. Even death is ours. Death is a win for us. For me to live as Christ, to die is gain. To be absent the body is to be present with the Lord. Don't fear him who can kill the body. They're threatening to kill your body. But fear him who can not only kill your body, but cast your soul into hell. Fear God. Fear God more than men. The fear of man's a snare. It's a trap. Proverbs sixteen eighteen, pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall America. The fall of America. What's it based on pride? And where do I think some of the greatest pride is? In the churches, in the pulpits. When I go to pastor's conferences over the year, I told my friend Eric, the fall is gonna be our pride. We're so incredibly proud as Calvary Chapel pastors. We're filled with pride. We're just like the world. We have millions and millions millions of dollars in the banks, big churches, lots of people coming, and we're overwhelmed with pride. We think we're better than others. There's not real love, communion. I'm watching it get better now. Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. He says, for it is written, so now he's gonna quote the one and only time in the New Testament. He's gonna quote out of the book of Job. Job five thirteen, he taketh the wise in their own craftiness, which speaks of cunning or trickery. Job five twelve says, he disappoints the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. So you see all the machinations and the conspiracy theories of the CIA and the globalist, the Gates, and all these people, their trickery, their cunning, their lies, their propaganda. The media never really exposing them for who they are, but always promoting what they're doing as being true and deceiving the hearts and minds of the simple. And you guys are critical thinkers. You don't take the bait. You don't go for it, but I sure did most of my life. Most of my life, the evening news was the gospel truth. It was the absolute truth. You couldn't question it. And then there came a season where we realized, oh my gosh, they've been lying to me. Oh, they're still lying to me. Oh, they've never stopped lying to me, you know. Boy, what an awakening that is, but there's also sadness. I love this country and I want it to work. But Rockefeller, he said at a certain point, we've deceived them to the point now there's no going back. Thank you media. Thank you everybody that helped us deceive them, the people, putting their global plan in place. In the colleges, in the hospitals, in the schools, in just every facet of society, the deception that they were able to undermine Christianity because Christianity is what stands in the way. Because we're salt and light. And that's why still today if we came to repentance, we could expose the darkness, we could expose the lies. That's all we gotta do. And they have to go crawl into a hole again till they can get everybody deceived once again. Because once we start to get blessed again and the the threat goes away, it's the two step forward, one step back. And then when we're not watching them, they're moving their agenda forward a little further till they get stopped. And the stopping is through awareness. Now it seems even if we're aware, they're in our face saying, we're gonna do it no matter what. In your face, we're taking it down. And that's mind boggling to me to see the cowardice of so many of us in our culture to just take the money, take the bags of money and go along with it. People being bought off. Rebecca and Jacob, they got together a plan to steal the birthright from Esau. And Isaac was well stricken in years and he couldn't see very well and you know the story, Rebecca concocted a plan, go get a little goat and bring him here and and we're gonna take his his hide and we're gonna put it on your arms because Esau means hairy. He's red hairy. He's got red hair. He's all hairy. And Jacob, you're smooth. You're smooth, man. So we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna trick Isaac. And we're gonna get him to give you the birthright. Cunning. Jacob was a heel catcher. He was cunning. He was a deceiver, a supplanter. That's his that's his ademic nature. And mama was helping him. And Isaac gave the blessing and Esau came in from a hunt. Esau cried and cried and cried and cried that he could get the blessing but too late according to Genesis 27. So they're favorites in the house. God had said when when they were born, these two at war in the womb, Jacob and Esau, that the elder shall serve the younger. Well, Rebecca didn't want that. Rebecca wanted her favorite, Jacob, who he liked the cooking shows. He liked to make the savory food, the potted stews and all that stuff. He was there with mom in the kitchen. And Esau was a man's man. He's out there with dad. He'd go get that venison and bring it back and whoop it up and cook it like Ivan does with the jerky and all, and boy, it's really good. He'd steal God's heart with that. Right? Steal Isaac's heart. And so they pulled it off. But Esau, he threatened to kill Jacob. If I ever see you again, I'm gonna kill you. And so they had to send Jacob away. So we're gonna send you away to my uncle Laban, and, you're gonna go to my uncle Laban's house. And here's the tragedy. Rebecca never saw her sons again and never saw her grandchildren again. How sad that is. Just let God do it. God said he was gonna give Jacob the birthright. God says the elders shall serve the younger. Just trust God to work it out, Rebecca. Don't play God. Don't meddle. Don't interfere. Allow God's word to be fulfilled in the way he wants it to be fulfilled. But the Lord was sending Jacob ahead to give him a lesson, teach him a lesson. Old Laban, he was much better at being a supplanner and trickster than Jacob ever thought of. He had a lot more years of experience in this. So as he's approaching the place of Laban, there's this young shepherdess much like Moses when he married the daughter of Jethro, the Midianite woman, you know, and saw her and just drop dead gorgeous. And when he saw, this is this is interesting. When Jacob saw Rachel, her beauty caused him to weep. He's a fast mover. He went up and kissed her. Pulled the rock away, allowed the the the sheep to to drink, and he's really moved fast, know, kissing cousins, kiss his cousin. And then he began to weep for her beauty and his love for her. And then when she brought him home to dad, Laban's just so excited, so excited, and so they agreed to let Jacob work for seven years for the hand of Rachel. And it and he says in verse 20 of chapter twenty twenty seven, excuse me, 29 verse 20, he says, it was as a moment, as as a week. It's just a few days, that seven years of working for the hand of Rachel. He was so in love with her and they couldn't consummate the marriage just yet. He had to work seven years And then it came to the wedding night, oh, this is so good. She had a sister, a sister named Leah. Leah, her name means sore eyes, tender eyes. You look at Leah and your eyes, it hurt. She she didn't have the outward beauty. Didn't have that outward beauty, but Rachel had the beauty. And so they wear veils, they have a party, and Jacob wakes up in the morning, and who's there in his tent with him? But Leah, the switcheroo. You switch with Esau, now you got a little taste of your own medicine. God dealing with him. Right? And so he says, alright, I'll work seven more years, you know, labor unless we have a custom, the elder one goes first, and alright, you're gonna have to work another seven years. So he worked another seven years and Leah's prolific and her handmaidens and, you know, they're they're building a nation. They're gonna wind up going down into Egypt with 70 people, you know. 70 offspring. And boy, they're building it right there. And I think my daughter and son-in-law are doing the same thing. They're number six. That's okay for me as a grandpa. I get to take them to out to eat today, and I get to spend the whole day with them, and the night, and go over to defy and watch them jump, and get them all their wiggles worked out, know, and give them all kinds of sugar and all that good stuff. They give them back to their parents, and they're gonna have sore throats all week, and and I love it. I love it. It's payback, baby. No. It's all it's all joy and a blessing. And so he's got fourteen years in this, got two wives and a bunch of kids. And, Rachel, she's able God purposely caused her wound to be barren. She's able to have Joseph, And then she dies in birthing that of Benjamin at the at the in Bethlehem of that of, birthing Benjamin. She she was died in labor. And so he's got his 12 kids and but with Laban, he worked another six years for the cattle. Total of twenty years he's working for Laban, uncle Laban. There came a point in time where it's time to get away in Genesis thirty one forty one. He says, you know, I worked seven years for Rachel. I worked seven years for Leah. I worked six years for the cattle. You you changed my wages over 10 different times messing around with me and all. So you think Jacob was kinda at a point like, man, met my match. Unreal. How crazy. And, he's able to leave from there and the Lord's able to bless his life, but in a wrestling match. In Hosea, we're told that that Jacob, when he wrestled with the Lord, he wrestled all night because in the morning, he was gonna have to cross the brook and head over and get his family because Esau was coming. Uh-oh. And he's got a lot of men with him. And so he was there with the Lord, couldn't sleep, got a big family over there, needed some time to get away with the Lord. He'd been at Bethel in chapter 20, 28. 29, he meets he meets Rachel. Twenty years there, now he's now he's out, now they're moving, and the Lord meets him there once again, and he wrestles with the Lord and God crippled Jacob. God dislocated his hip in that wrestling match, and although he lost the match, he won the match Because in losing, he won. He walked away from their limping, but he walked away from their changed, a broken man. No longer Jacob supplanter, but Jacob Israel, governed of God or prince of God. Through the breaking. Is God trying to break you this morning? All the tricks, all the conniving, all the manipulation of the things that people try to go through to take us out of our lane, the lane that we're supposed to be swimming in, the duty that we have, the calling God has on our life. Don't ever let a Jay Inslee take you out of your calling. Don't let any man with his threats take you out of your calling. You're better than that. Your Jesus is better than that. Tobiah and Samballat tried to take Nehemiah out of his calling of rebuilding the walls. They lied and manipulated, scammed and schemed, and Nehemiah built the walls in fifty and two days, and his enemies knew that this work was wrought of God. God gets the glory. Haman was building a gallows to kill Mordecai, and he wound up swinging from his own gallows. Verse 20, and again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain. Quote on Psalm ninety four eleven. Proverbs nineteen twenty one, there are many devices in the man's heart, nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord that shall stand. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it. The globalist, the new world order, the brotherhood of darkness plot and scheme, the United Nations, the world is plotting the destruction of Israel. And God says in Psalm two, why do the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh and the Lord shall have them in derision. In Zechariah 12, the whole world turns their back upon Israel. In Revelation 12, the devil with his armies are chasing the woman trying to destroy the nation of Israel. And Jesus said, except those days be short, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, for Israel, Jesus is gonna intervene in the tribulation period. God always wins. Why did the church of Corinth deceive themselves into thinking the world was so wise? Didn't they see how destructive the wisdom of the world was? The war of ideas and values? We're in a war. We're in a war for ideas and values. We have a biblical worldview or we have secular worldview. You don't go to college and adopt the world's view on life. You go to college and you stand against the lies and you stand for truth. Your career, wherever you go, you always stand for righteousness. That's what we do. We don't have to shoot anybody. We just cannot acquiesce and be passive and give in to evil. That's a cowardice attitude. We don't flee. We stand and fight with truth. The churches need to teach the truth, need to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. A biblical worldview based upon absolute truth of God's word, a prophecy, or a secular humanistic relativism centered in the worldly wisdom of men. Paul told Timothy, a young pastor in first Timothy six twenty, keep that which was committed to your trust. The word of God that God's invested in your life is a trust. And you don't bury it. You reinvest in the lives of others. Avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science. Yeah. There's words in the bible. Science, falsely so called. So it's not really science. Science is factual knowledge. Science today is not the Fauci science. The science proves it. It doesn't prove it Fauci. You're lying through your teeth. People are getting grants, they're getting grant money for lying about global warming, for lying about the vaccines, lying about COVID. They get grant money, they get money to tell you lies. It's not science. Millions are lied to and millions die. Twenty million. I posted this morning. Twenty million. Mike Adams had a had a article this morning about the deaths of COVID switching around, it's changing, but twenty million worldwide so far. And nobody will talk about it. Churches are silent. Pastors conference silent. Oh, we're gonna vote him back in. We're gonna vote daddy Warp Speed back in, man. He's gonna fix it. Oh, daddy. Who's your daddy? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Pride deceives, pride destroys, pride divides. Verse 21, therefore let no man glory in men for all things are yours. So why impoverish yourself? Why separate yourself? I'm of Rick, I'm of Kevin, I'm of John, I'm of Cephas, Paul, whatever. You're the church at Corinth. Enjoy them all. I want you guys to have pastor Chuck word for today app. I want you to listen to bible studies all day long. I want you to listen to pastor David Hocking, I hope for today. I want you to listen to John McArthur. Just don't listen to him in regard to the gifts of the spirit. He's a wackadoodle on the gifts of spirit. He's a cessationist. But he's great in a lot of other ways. Don't fall too far with his hyper Calvinistic view. But there's a whole lot of good stuff that that he teaches. You get to enjoy them all. Go to Koinonia House. Listen to Chuck Missler. Doctor Chuck Missler. He was teaching at Costa Mesa when I first got saved. Every Monday night, every men's retreat, he'd be teaching. He was one of my teachers in the school ministry. Great teachers. Awesome teachers. You go on YouTube, it's there. Turn off the weirdness and get into the word. Get into God's word. When I'm at the gym, I get to put on two, three pastor Chuck videos, watch them, learn, be reminded. Peter said, I'm teaching you these those the these things though you know them. He says, I'm reminding you of these things though you know them. We need to constantly be reminded of that which we once learned. I get excited when I'm reminded of things that I once knew that I forgot. We forget so much. Keep studying. Enjoy them all. Don't limit yourselves. And I don't mean all the heretics out there. I mean, selective. Choose. Be discerning. Look for bible teachers that really know and teach the bible. They're a gift to you from God. God's given them to you as a gift to the church for the perfecting of the saints. Perfecting means to mature you. What's their job description? Feed my sheep, Jesus told Peter. Their job description is to feed you and to tend you. What's the food? It's the word of God. It's not psychobabble. It's not feel good messages. You're better than that. I'm noticing the soft Christians from the soft twenty years, soft churches don't have a spine. They have no courage. They have no faith. They can't stand up against anything because they've never had to. Everything's about them. And if they're uncomfortable, it means I gotta run. I gotta flee. They're gonna text me $2. I better leave. Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, Cephas is Peter, you know, gifts from God to the church. Ephesians four eleven, he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers. Why? Verse 12, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying, that means building up. Job is to build you up in the faith, the body of Christ. So as you study the word of God, you're gonna be built up. Your spirit's gonna be fed. A friend of mine went to Texas to be united with a girl he met online. He had five years of sobriety. It's always a good woman that takes you down. Let me tell you. No. Just kidding. She's a good woman. She loved the Lord. But he didn't feed himself spiritually. And he's not in any position as a five years of sobriety to go dry. To go dry spiritually. That's what he neglected on his trip, his two months, was being in church, being in meetings, being in fellowship, being in the word, And all sorts of new stuff come on his plate, it agitated him. And he went into a Rite Aid, and he grabbed hold of the vodka and went on a bender and wound up in the hospital. And he's so heartbroken, and so I met with him and gave him a pastor Chuck word for today. Teaching, bible teaching, I said, I just want you to focus on one thing. One thing, and that's being the word of God. That's all I want you to focus on. Get the word of God back in you. Two, three days later, he's starting to revive. He's starting to come back to himself. He's getting a little bit more confidence. He's sober, and I hope he continues. But at least we we're giving him, as we're analyzing the mind, the body, the will, the emotions, we know it's a spiritual problem. America has a spiritual problem. America needs to veil herself of the word of God, that God's word can bring healing, God's word can bring rebuke, God's word can bring confession and repentance and restoration. But apart from God's word, we can't build on lies. We can't build on fables and doctrines of demons, and I think so, hope so, or the past. Has to be real. It's in the pulpits. It's in the churches. Enjoy, receive from each under edification or of the world. The world belongs to Jesus by right of creation and redemption. This world belongs to us, not them. He created and he purchased and we're gonna rule and reign with him for a thousand years upon this earth. They're not. Their utopia is gonna die. It's gonna it's gonna fail. Absolute failure. We're joint heirs with Jesus Christ. It doesn't belong to Satan. It doesn't belong ultimately to the globalist nor to Satan. The lilogy god of this world, the usurper, he tried to usurp and take control, but Jesus in Revelation five, he's got the title deed to the earth. Amen. That's right. His blood. Of life, Jesus is the giver of life. No, you've all heard. These guys can't give life. Only Jesus is the giver of life. The thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I've come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father but by me. Let not your heart be troubled, church. In my father's house are many mansions if it weren't so. I tell you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. We go to be with Jesus in the pre trib rapture. A whole world is given over the time of Jacob's trouble of tribulation. The world's never seen or never see again, and then we come back with the Lord Jesus at the end of that seven years in his triumph, in his victory, as he destroys the antichrist and all the armies of the earth, all the armies of the antichrist and the false prophet with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth. And we come with him in Revelation 19 in beautiful wedding garments, unspotted, unblemished, and our rewards at the Bema seat that we receive while we're in heaven there. Right? That's the hope that we have, that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior or of death. Death is our moving day. If we really believe heaven is better, death is ours. If you ask them the bodies to be present with the Lord. We pray for a lot of folks in here to get healed, and I pray to God that we don't have to bury anybody. But I think we've got it wrong sometimes. Sometimes there's people among us, very close to us, that are wasting away with cancer. And they're riddled with pain, huge pain, enormous pain, and you're carrying that burden with them. We're carrying that burden, and it hurts. But to be absent the bodies, be present with the Lord. At that very moment, they're moving out of that body, and they're with Jesus. They're seeing Jesus face to face. And there's no more pain. They got a new glorified body. Which is better? To be with Jesus or to stay here suffering? Jesus. I think if God would have given Lazarus a choice, he would have chose to stay in heaven. Tradition says he never smiled again. He got a taste of heaven. For our benefit, for our comfort, we want people to stay. We want them all to be healed. But the Lord may be saying, you've suffered enough. You're a prize to me. I'm taking you home. You're graduated. For me to live is Christ to die is gain or things present or things to come, all are yours. So we own the present, we own the future. Men of the world are constantly planning the future, the devising a utopian age inspired by Satan. But man's plans are predestined for the destruction, for the tribulation period, for hell. We would say as a child, and I am a child, they're l seven loser weenies. If you watch the sandlot of baseball season with your grandkids, l seven do I have that right? Weenies. They're losers. They've already lost. Already lost. So don't take life so serious. They've already lost. So we own the present, we own the future. Jesus is building his church in the present, almost nineteen hundred years of building over nineteen hundred years, almost two thousand years of building this church, and we're gonna rule and reign with him as his bride, the church forever and ever. Verse 23, and you are Christ. We've been purchased with his blood, we belong to him. He gave his life a ransom for many and Christ is God's. Jesus humbled himself, became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. So Jesus, in complete submission to his father, Jesus prayed not my will, but thy will be done. Are we submitted to God? The example of Jesus complete submission unto his father. Are we seeking his wisdom or the wisdom of the world? Take a reality check. Let a man examine himself to see whether he's in the faith. This is a self judgment. Look in the mirror. Don't receive the word of God here and look in the mirror of God's word and forget what manner of person you are. It's time as you see who you are in relationship with who God is, it's time for you to apply God's word to your life. To say, Lord, I repent. I'm not gonna live in fear. Lord, strengthen my faith. Encourage, build me up, strengthen me, and help me to proclaim the good news of your coming kingdom. Proclaim the gospel. Proclaim proclaim prophecy. Proclaim the blessed hope. The pre trib rapture. Let them all know Jesus is coming for his bride. Are you ready? You got oil? People with oil are those who are saved. If you don't have oil, if you don't have the holy spirit, you're not of his. You need the holy spirit. It's time to check reality. Check it out. Don't live in the twilight zone forever. Come out from among them. Be separate, say the Lord. Talk to not the unclean thing, and I'll receive you. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Do you know God? Do you know God this morning? If you know God this morning, you're ready. You're ready. You've got the oil. You're ready. Your name's written in the lamb's book of life. You're ready. If you don't know God, you're not ready. But today is the day of salvation. For why would you die in your sins? God's pleading. Will you fear the Lord? Will you humble yourself and admit that you don't know him? God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Pride deceives, pride destroys, pride divides, divides us from God. Take the reality check. It may be a day of repentance for you, a day of salvation, but a new beginning. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away and all things are become new. Your new reality, your reality is a newness of life in Christ Jesus. Why live in the old? Why live in the past? Why live a lie? Why live according to the world which is perishing? Why not live in the moment in fellowship with the true living God knowing that you own the future? Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you for the blessing of being Christians, the blessing of being snatched out from among the world, of being apprehended on our road to Damascus, of being once blind, but now we see, of being once dead, but now alive, of being poor as beggars, but but Lord, now being plutocrats, the unsearchable riches of Christ, of being ugly but now beautiful. Beautiful within and without. The blessing of your countenance, the blessing of who you are shining upon us, Lord. The blessing of access to your throne of grace, not of judgment, but of grace to find help, to find grace and mercy in our time of need. To approach you for wisdom and being a father and being a mother, a brother, a sister, a friend. God, we need wisdom. If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who freely give, and Lord, we can ask for that wisdom. We can ask you for instruction and guidance in this life. And Lord, we can ask you to open the scriptures to be our teacher, to teach us, to loom in our hearts and minds as you reveal once again yourself to us. And Lord, what are we to do with that? Lord, we pray that we'd go, not go and fleeing somewhere, but go with the gospel. Pray that as Ronnie and Fred, as they go to Arizona, that Lord, they go with that countenance, they go with that that that bright light of their hearts and minds and their being, the way that they served here in Kitsap County for so many years, that they'd be alongside their sons and daughters and grandkids and and the community they're in and doing good and loving and sharing Christ. A new season, a new place, but commissioned Lord, each of us as we come, as we stay, as we go with the glorious gospel, the good news, all the things you brought us through, all the times you've been so faithful, Lord, we can testify of your faithfulness. So Lord, now we pray if there's any here that don't know you, that don't have a relationship with you, that Lord, they enjoy the reality of fellowship with you, the newness of life, being born again. In Jesus' name we pray. Anybody here? You don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, but he's drawn you here this morning. He loves you. This is a divine appointment. He's meeting with you as he met with the woman in John four, the woman at Jacob's Well, who was so thirsty. He's got living water. He's got water to drink of. You'll never thirst again. And that's Jesus filling within your heart and mind what he designed you for, which is fellowship with himself. He's the living water. He's the one you need to drink in into your life. He's what's missing in your life. Anyone here this morning? Just lift your hand up. We wanna lead you to Christ. As you turn from your sins, as you cry out to God as the publican, God be merciful to me a sinner. Jesus said that man went to his home justified just as if he never sinned. Salvation is by grace through faith alone, a gift. Anyone here this morning? Lift your hand up. Father, thank you. Thank you for the sweetness of meeting today, the sweetness of of fellowship with you and in your word. And Lord, help us to be soldiers. Help us to be diligent and strong, that we'd move in the power of your might, Lord. It's not by might nor by power, but by my spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit, that we'd be being filled with the holy spirit, Lord, in these last days. And Lord, I know we're gonna stand out. We're gonna definitely stand out if we're those who live and walk in the power of the spirit. Truly, Lord, you desire true worshipers that'll worship you in spirit and in truth. May we be that little remnant, that little flock. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
