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Ephesians 5:8,14 -Walk As Children Of Light- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2026-03-29
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Ephesians five beginning with verse eight. For we were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord, walk as children of light. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is acceptable under the Lord and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done to them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doeth make manifest is light. Wherefore, he say it, awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light. Father, thank you that we don't need to be children of darkness, that Lord we can be children of light, we are children of light and we can be led by your holy spirit and by your holy word, Lord, the light of your word. That we not be the blind leading the blind falling into the ditch, Lord. And we're grossly inadequate, Lord, in and of ourselves to to lead, but Lord, we're being led of you. We're watching you. You're the light of the world. And Lord, we believe and trust in you that you're gonna lead and guide us in these last days, these dark, dark days. And Lord, we pray that you'd equip us and strengthen us that we'd never, never, never compromise with evil, that we'd stand tall like John the Baptist, like you did, Lord. And Lord, we would expose, we'd be the light that exposes the evil, that people be rescued from the darkness, from the corruption, the the degradation, the demonic activity that's so prevalent today as the world is darkening, becoming ever darker. But Lord, you said that we're the light of the world. We're a city set on a hill, and Lord, it just takes a a flip of the switch and let darkness flee. So help us to be light. Help us to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, live and dwelling within us, and let our faces, Lord, is radiating our countenance and the fragrance of Christ emanate from us, Lord, in in huge contrast to the world as the world is perishing. Let our light shine. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Would you please be seated? Jesus said in John eight verse 12, I am the light of the world. He that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life. The bible offers us a simple but eternal choice, light or darkness. It's real simple. Receive the mark of the beast or reject the mark of the beast in tribulation period. Real simple. Presently for you and I, it's light, choose light or choose darkness. Life or death, heaven or hell. There's no in betweeners. There's no purgatory. There's no annihilation. It's heaven or it's hell. And hell is a choice. Nobody gets sent to hell by God. Hell was made for the devil and the fallen angels. There's no praying people out of hell. There's no second chance with reincarnation. It's appointed unto all men once to die, And then the judgment. You have three score in ten years and ten years more by reason of strength till you're 80 to choose where you want to spend eternity. Heaven or hell? Jesus or Barabbas? Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart. Do you hear him? The church of Laodicea in the last days has kicked Jesus out of the church. They're playing church. The apostate last days, Laodicean. Laodicean means people rule. Jesus is not ruling his church. He's kicked out. And he's still knocking on the door in Revelation three verse 20. And he said, if any man hear my voice and open that door, I'll come into him and what's up with him and he with me. The church of Laodicea is a delusional church. They're telling themselves I'm rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing. And Jesus evaluation of them is no, you're naked, poor, blind and miserable. And what I recommend to you is repentance. Repent and open the door. Don't be in the gray area. It's light or it's darkness. He says, verse 14, wherefore he say it, awake you that sleep and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light. It's your choice. What will it be? Darkness or light? When we walk as children of light, number one, we ripen. We need to grow. We need to ripen. You take the fruit and it's in darkness or Bill Gates trying to dim the sun and and, you know, block out the sun and all, it's gonna greatly affect the ripening of fruit. Right? And we love the the season that's coming upon us, the spring, and we love to get our hands a hold of all the different fruits and vegetables and stuff that ripen from the gardens and local growers and stuff. We don't want the GMO food. We want the local growers. We want the local local stuff, stuff. And we wanna we wanna build up with our antioxidants. We wanna build our immune systems up, and and we understand that. We as Christians, we don't wanna be in the darkness. We're not gonna grow. We don't wanna even live in the gray. We don't wanna live so close to the edge that I can be in the world and still be a Christian. No. We wanna go close to the light, the son of God. We wanna draw as close to him as we can as we abide in him, as we draw near to him. He's the light of the world and our lives, there's growth. There's spiritual growth that takes place from just drawing near the Lord. He says, verse eight, for you were sometimes darkness. In the past, you were in darkness. We were born in darkness. We lived in darkness. He says, before we followed Jesus, we were, notice it says we were darkness, not in darkness, but we were darkness. And so is darkness an adequate description of your life before Jesus? Is darkness a description of your life presently? Are you dabbling with darkness? Do you love darkness rather than light? We take you to John three. The reason they won't believe, they exercise their will. Why won't people believe? They will not believe, not intellectual. You say you believe in God, you do well. The demons also believe and tremble. It's not a profession of faith that saves you. It's the reality of believing in your heart, having faith in Jesus. So why won't they believe in John three? This is the condemnation that they love darkness rather than light. They love darkness. They won't they it's like it's like you picture Sodom and Gomorrah, two angels come into town and you smite them with darkness and they're blind and they're still groping for the door. For you and I, we we don't we don't need a whole lot of spanking like that. The Lord just just just shine the light of his word upon us or send somebody to rebuke us. Maybe Nathan the prophet David, you're the man, and then there's repentance. Because we we we acknowledge, hey, I'm wrong. The light went on, the the blinders came off. It's me, I'm the problem. And then the sweetness of repentance, the sweetness of getting right with God again, walking in fellowship with God. But those that live in darkness, that are darkness, they hate the light. They fight against the light. They don't wanna see the light. And so they why? John three, because they love darkness rather than light. Their deeds are evil and they don't wanna be exposed. So they wanna censor. They wanna make sure that you can't tell the truth out there. You can't expose their wickedness. That's a hate speech if you do that. It's hate speech, you know. And so they change the words. They change the terminology and they try to well, into them, they call evil good and good evil. And so they're trying to get away with twisting words and and to cover their actions, their lifestyles and so on and all. So maybe you're tolerant of gray. You're in the crowd of I'm okay, you're okay, and you know, I the only verse I know in the Bible is Matthew seven, judge not lest ye be judged. And you know, I don't wanna judge your behavior because that would be unloving, that'd be unkind, I'd be a homophobe, bigot, whatever, a racist, you know, and all these different words to try and curtail your thinking, your critical thinking, ability to critically think. Well, the Matthew seven passage has to do with somebody that's a pharisee and condemning. Crino, crino, you're condemning somebody, and it's kinda like the woman caught in the very act of adultery in John eight. You that are without sin cast the first stone. So Jesus said, why don't you take the big beam out of your eye, your your pridefulness, your self righteousness, and then you'll see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. He's not saying we don't make judgments. We all make judgments. We all have to judge concerning lifestyle, concerning that which is good, that which is evil. We have a country with a Judeo Christian ethic. We have the Mosaic law to describe what's good, what's evil. We're not left in darkness. We're not supposed to be those who are existential humanism where if it feels good, do it, you know, or the Burger King kind of a church, you know, have it your way. No. We need to do it God's way. It's his way or the highway. We walk in obedience unto him. We're not under the law, we're under love. It's his love. The love of Christ constrains me. I don't wanna sin because it breaks God's heart. I'm aware of what's right, what's wrong. Because the light of God's word and the conscience that he's given me and his word written in my heart leads and guides my my mind and my heart, my actions. So I don't wanna compromise the word of God. I don't want to be in the crowd of I'm okay or you're okay. I don't wanna live in the gray. I don't wanna live like the world. I wanna be a fanatic, like a Seahawk fan. I wanna get up at three in the morning and be down at the ferry when it's snowing to try and get a ferry across there to go see a Seahawk game. When I drive to church, the bars are full. When I come to church in the morning, the bars have cars already there. People get to where they wanna worship. They get to where they gotta be. And yet, we've got the bedside baptists that can't get out of bed. Oh, got an excuse not to attend church. Well, out of four weeks a month, five weeks a month, how how often can you attend church? The Bible says in Hebrews 10 to neglect not the assembling yourselves together as a matter of some is, especially as you see the day of the Lord approaching. How important is it to love the Lord with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, all your strength? And I know we got Facebook, and we got streaming into your home, and and more and more it's getting easier and easier because of COVID being taught to stay home, but it's real hard to be the body of Christ. And I thank the Lord for the technology that gets the word out there. But we as the body of believers need to need to take this more serious. And we're gonna we're gonna gravitate toward, we're gonna move, and we're gonna come hell or high water. Nothing's gonna stop us from attending church. And husbands, you you've got to be in submission to the king of kings and lord of lords in your home. We're gonna get to that in Ephesians five. He holds you responsible to set the tone. You've got time for fishing. You've got time for football. You've got time for everything else under the sun. Do you have time to be a spiritual leader within the home? It all comes down to if you love Jesus or not. Is the world shaming us with their love of their evil and their games and their meetings and things. You know, the Super Bowl has become a become a, you know, holiday. International holiday, the Super Bowl. And and we so often, we will live in the gray and we don't inspire really anybody with that kind of a Jesus. A lukewarm, insipid, powerless Jesus doesn't inspire anybody. In darkness or in the light? First John one five, God is light and in him is no darkness at all. Jesus is God's standard. He's the light. He says in verse six, if we say that we have fellowship with him, lot of professors, lot of people saying in politics, the media, Hollywood people, everybody and their brother is talking about how they believe in God. How they're Christians or Catholics or whatever. It's crazy. It has to be the devil's getting people ready for the one row religious system. Everybody's gonna jump anything goes in that system. You can present Jesus as whoever you want. It can be the Mormon Jesus, it can be the Baptist Jesus, it can be the JW Jesus, it can be the Muslims Jesus. It doesn't matter. The inclusiveness of all different religious systems, comes on board, you know. The only thing you can't say is the Jesus of the bible's the only way. Where Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth, life. No man comes to the father but by me. And Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? What's the general consensus? Well, some say you're John the Baptist. Some say you're Jeremiah. Some say you're that prophet. Who do you say that I am? That's where salvation comes down to. Who is Jesus? Paul warned that Satan can appear as an angel of light and ministers of righteousness, they can appear. Jesus warned that they'll come as wolves in sheep's clothing. Very important that you understand the deity of Jesus Christ, that he's God. And he proved that he's God. Destroy this temple in three days, I'll raise it up, proving that he's God. The proof is the resurrection. So walk in the light as he is in the light. We have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. So let's try that again. Does darkness describe your life? If it does, then we have the Christian's bar of soap. First John one nine. If we confess, the word confess means to agree with the holy spirit. The holy spirit brings conviction. The devil brings condemnation. The devil shows you the pit of hell. The accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12, the devil wants to accuse you and and bring you to the place where of despair, where you give up, where you think that God doesn't love you anymore. God does love us. He proved it at the cross of Calvary. He sent his son. So never question God's love. That's that's that's a given. In the circumstances of life, all things are working together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. You're a testimony. You're a testimony of the love of God that he loved you. You're his workmanship, his poema, his work of art. He loved you. He chose you uniquely, individually. He died for you. He knows you. His good thoughts concerning you are numbered more than all the grains of sand. So if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. And so I it's not that I get saved again. I'm already saved. I'm saved to the outermost. It's fellowship restored. All of us sin, but we don't wanna live habitually, continually in a lifestyle of sin that shouldn't characterize that does not characterize the Christian. The Christian is a child of light, But as a child of light, we fall, we sin, we miss the mark. And when we miss the mark, we wanna shorten that account. It separates us from fellowship. We're not as intimate with the Lord as we need be. So the Holy Spirit speaks in our heart and says, Rick, confess that sin. Admit it. Don't cover your sin. Don't try to hide your sin. Don't rationalize your sin. Don't blame your parents. Don't play the blame game. Take ownership, Rick. Look in the mirror. Say, you're the man. The man that sinned. The man that needs Jesus. That needs help. And he will. He'll wash and cleanse us, fellowship restored. He says, but now, so you were darkness, but now, don't you love the but gods? Don't you love the contrast? But now something changed. You're light in the Lord. Light. So walk as children of light. Don't walk as children of darkness. Walk as children of light. Walk in fellowship with God as children of light. Psalm twenty seven one says, the Lord is my light, my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? Notice verse nine. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. So when we walk as children of light, we are like the sun ripened fruit. Our lives bear the fruit of goodness. What's goodness? Moral excellence, generosity of spirit. Righteousness, what's that mean? Giving to God and to man their due, being right with God and man. Truth, honesty, reliability, trustworthiness, integrity. Is this the fruit of your life? Jesus said though, you'll know them by their fruit, not their profession, but by their fruit. What's the fruit? What's the character coming out of them? Can I see a contrast? Can I see a guy or a gal that were addicted to alcohol, drugs, maybe covetousness, money, ambition, wanting the world, promiscuity, whatever it might be that used to really make make you, you know, the master passion of your life is your God? And that's what really used to drive you, the things of the world. Jesus said, what's it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what would a man give in exchange for his life? Well, you were wanting all that the world has to offer. And the Bible says, to love not the world, neither the things in the world. All that's in the world. Lust, flesh, lust the eye of pride of life, not of the father but the world. And the world perishes in the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever. What's the will of God? Believe. Put Jesus first. Let him be the master passion of your life. And when you do that, you're a child of light and your life, your character, people will see a contrast. They'll see the fruit of repentance. That's who you were in the BC days. That's not who you are now. Although you may fall, you may struggle, you get back up and you get a little stronger, a little stronger, the more you draw near to the sun. The son of man, the son of God, his life flows through us as we abide in him, as he's the vine and we're the branches, and we grow and we begin to bear fruit for his kingdom and for his glory. And so the the truth of God, the righteousness. So what is the fruit of your life? Are you good? Are you righteous? Are you truthful? And we don't wanna boast, do we? So in Jeremiah nine, let not the mighty man glory in his mind. Let not the rich man glory in his riches. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, but let him that glories, if there's one thing we can glory in, let him that glories glory in he understands and knows me. You can glory in the fact that you know Jesus, that you know God. You're not a member of Calvary Bremerton. You are in the body of Christ. You're in Christ Jesus. You're born again. You can go to any church you want and not lose your salvation. Right? You're you're in Christ Jesus. You're a new creation. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things have passed away. All things have become new. And that's who you are. You're a new person. You shall know them by their fruits, Jesus said. And so can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit? No. From the abundance of heart, the mouth speaks. You listen long enough, it'll come out of their own mouth. They'll say it. Verse 10, proving what is acceptable under the Lord. So in order to grow and ripen, we must hold everything up to the light to discern God's will, to be acceptable in his sight. First Thessalonians five twenty one says, prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. John fifteen four, abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit except of itself except it abide in me. Jesus said without me you can do nothing. He says, you're not you haven't chosen me but I've chosen you. And I've ordained that you bring forth fruit and that your fruit remain that whatsoever you ask the father in my name, he may give it to you. As we live out our salvation, as we prove all things. So we we don't wanna be deceived, we're truthers. We're children of truth, children of light. I want all the truth I can get. Now ignorance is bliss. My lifetime as a Christian from 1980 to, I don't know, maybe 9095, almost 2000. I was living in the truth but only a certain degree of truth. I believed a lot of Walter Cronkite. I believed a lot of the mainstream media. A lot of what I thought was truth was not truth. I was being lied to. I was even being lied to from the pulpit because the pastors were listening to the same lies that I was listening to. And somehow we were tricked, we were deceived. And now, there's this there's this desire in many of us in realizing how long we've been lied to. We don't wanna remain ignorant. We don't wanna remain in that gray area of ignorance. But I have to say, ignorance is bliss. Those were great days. I I just Ronald Reagan, America, all of it, you know, it's woah. It's just great. Making money, taking care of our families, the whole thing. Great. Awesome. And then some things began to happen that began to awaken me like 09:11, and I thought there was the realization as I was watching doctor Stanley Monteith, Radio Liberty, as I was watching the videos and looking at the evidence and looking at everything, just just huge collapse in my heart went, I couldn't believe my own government would lie to me. How naive was I? But ignorance is bliss. But once your eyes are open, now you gotta deal with these truths. You gotta you gotta be a critical thinker. You gotta prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. Very very important today with all of the deception. Do you know that in Revelation chapter 12 verse nine, the antichrist has deceived the whole world? It says he that deceived the whole world. They're in charge of the media. They've got the beast and the false prophet, the media, Joseph Goebbels, that's gonna make people be filled with fear and everything they believe. Once they believe everything we've told them, we've achieved our goal because they believe all the lies that we've told them. Lies about food, lies about the environment, lies about carbon, lies about vaccines and medicine and finance and it's not an education anymore, it's an indoctrination of brainwashing. And once we have them at that at that point, we've won. And for me, I we're gonna see in this passage here that even though I may know the truth on certain things, doesn't mean I wanna dive down deep in the Epstein files. I don't wanna go there. I see the pictures and I hear terms like adrenachrome and the Hollywood people and all these guys wearing red shoes and the red shoes are skinned from the children that they that they killed and it's kind of a mockery to wear these red leather shoes. And Adrenaline Chrome has taken a baby and smacking the baby around, the toddler, and getting their adrenaline running, and then these crazy George Soroson stuff. Can't help him now. He's so ugly, but they they try to find the fountain of youth in a transfusion like vampires with these children's blood. Who comes up with this stuff? This this lust for blood. And that lust for blood in the tribulation period, God's gonna give their water system over to blood. You guys are bloody, you like blood, or you're gonna be drinking blood like the Egyptians during the during the plagues and all. How tragic. How how crazy. So I I just touched on a few things there, but if you wanna go down that rabbit hole, you can go pretty far. We wanna be truthers, lovers of truth, prove all things whole fat. That was good, but I stopped short of things like the Kabbalah and Noahide laws and how deep a lot of these different rabbit holes go. I just I just I don't have time for it. I don't want to know. I don't wanna know. I need a little time with my grandkids. I need to protect them. I need to protect my mind. I can't allow the filth of the world to treat my mind like it's a sewer. I I don't wanna know. But some of you have been entrusted by God to know these things and to confront those in power and to expose. You're a whistleblower and you can handle it. You don't have PTSD from being exposed to so much. You have been equipped to be able to handle certain things that other people can't. And the powers that be wanna silence you. They wanna take you out because they don't want people to know. They operate in darkness. Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. Abide me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. And so we walk as children of light, yoked up to Jesus, abiding in him as we're ripened. Secondly, we walk as children of light, we reprove. Verse 11, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. So darkness stunts growth. I don't want my growth stunted. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. That word reprove means to expose, reprove, correction, punishment, discipline. So the scripture, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. The scripture, the word of God given by inspiration of God. This word is God breathed. It's God's word. It's not man's word. It's his word. His infallible word. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. Doctrine is teaching. We are students of God's word. The mayor of Bremerton years ago, mayor Bozeman asked me, you know, hey, what's what's a Calvary Chapel like? And I said, it's like a high school, maybe a college classroom for the bible. That's how I would describe my ministry and the ministry I came out of at Calvary Costa Mesa with pastor Chuck. So you go in knowing nothing about the bible and you are taught the word of God. Jesus said, go and make disciples, and he gave some, you know, apostles, evangelists, prophets, and teachers, pastor, teachers. What's the job? The job description of a pastor? To amuse the people. Amuse means not to think. So are we to amuse you? Are we to entertain you? Are we to have programs that disconnect you from reality? Give you a moment, a time of escape from the reality of the world? Or are we to seek to build you up and strengthen you spiritually so that you can face the reality of this world and have the hope of the return of Jesus Christ who will fix it all? And so we we choose to teach. We choose to all scripture given by inspiration, god, a profitable doctrine for reproof. Sometimes we have to reprove. So when people say, hey, judge not, lest you be judged. Hey, anything goes. Hey, let the gays, the lesbians, the LGBT, and the woke people all fill the fill the seats and don't talk about sin because you'll offend them. No. We're gonna talk about righteousness. And if the righteousness we talk about offends them, so be it. Because they need to get saved. We don't wanna give them a false sense of security that they wind up going to hell. It's nonnegotiable. We're gonna present the cross. We're gonna present the solution for man's sin. We're not going to redefine sin. We're not gonna redefine adultery and call it an affair. We're not gonna redefine marriage between one man, one woman for one lifetime and redefine it as anything goes. We're not gonna redefine male, female. In the beginning, he made them male and female. It's real simple. It's light or it's darkness. It's right or it's wrong. We don't need to be confused. And so we reprove. We speak up. We don't allow that fantasy to continue, that that lie from the pit of hell. We certainly protect our children from being brainwashed in their formative years that maybe they're not a boy, maybe they're not a girl. Being groomed into the trans transgenderism and all. How tragic. How confusing. No. We reprove. We use the scripture for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. We need truth. We need the word of God that we can use the word of God for every good work. We're being used to the Lord to spread his word. To hold not to the Koran, not to the Book of Mormon, to hold to the word of God. Jesus is the incarnate word, the logos. The the rhema, the the speaking forth God's word. Man shall not live by bread alone on the natural level. We need we have an appetite for food, for shelter. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We're to live by God's word. That's how we're to live and what God identifies in his word to you and I is an absolute. But there are also things individually that the Lord speaks to my heart and your heart where it's okay for you to move to Hawaii and get in shape and start surfing again. It's okay for you to do that and live on the beach. But the Lord would say, Rick, as much as you fantasize about that, you're not in a church of fantasy. You're you're you're fat now, Rick. You're fat. You'll drown out there. So Rick, protect you, I'm gonna keep you in Bremerton. Right? You fit right in in Bremerton, Rick. And so my word for you is keep teaching my word for you, Rick. That's my word for you that I'm speaking to you. Well Lord, how come he gets to go? What is that to you? Follow thou me, the Lord told, you know, Peter. If I will, then he tarry till I come. What is that to you? Follow thou me. You do what I've told you to do. So his plan for my life is different than yours, but you're not sinning by going to Hawaii. I'd be sinning by going to Hawaii because I'd be out of God's will. Right? So I wanna obey him. I wanna hear from him. I want ears to hear. I don't wanna live another person's plan or purpose for their life. I wanna live and fulfill God's plan and purpose for my life. I wanna work out my own salvation, live out my own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who's putting in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. And we are and we're made for his pleasure. So when we're in God's will, even when you hate the rain and it never stops raining, the best place for you to be is in that fiery trial with Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Jesus. And you know, after a while, you appreciate the sun even more when it's when it stops raining. You appreciate the beach and places like that that you get to go to, but but you you you learn to adapt. And and the other thing is life is perspective. If I'm in a place where it's sunny all the time, I might have to wrestle the 91 Freeway. And those of you that don't live down there, the 91 Freeway, I'd spend three and a half hours a day on the 91 Freeway. Well, I don't have to go off this peninsula anymore. I don't have to go to Tacoma or drive to Boeing for a work or whatever. I get to I get to hang out here. What a great I gotta deal with a little bit of rain. Alright. So what? Boy, that 91 Freeway was it was taking the life out of me. This make me an old man before my time. And you know how much I hate about senior discounts and all that ain't gonna happen because I'm not a senior yet. I'm in denial. So you expose, you reprove, correction, punishment, discipline. So light must expose the evil. No compromise. And that's why the world, they hate truthers. They hate educated people. Mao will kill 60,000,000 of his own people, especially the educated to bring about his communism. The Christians that know better. Stalin will wipe out 20,000,000 of his people to bring in this communism. He'll starve those of Ukraine to death to gain the upper hand. We've seen these leaders do this. And those who are aware, those who are awake, those that understand we're a constitutional republic and they speak up when they see, you know, things not operating in that way, we say, hey, wait, we need the rule of law. What happened to the rule of law? How come somebody's not dealing with this these criminals? Why are these criminals getting pallets of bricks delivered to Seattle? Somebody has to deliver those bricks on those pallets. Somebody has to pay for those bricks. What are those buses of people coming in? Who brought those buses of people in? Who who who researches this? George Soros, $15 an hour in Craigslist to get these people on these buses to go to Seattle and throw them in the name of what? In the name of Black Lives Matters or something? Or Antifa? Who what happened? How could you tell the police officers to stand down? What happened to the rule of law? We don't need new laws. We need you to enforce the laws on the books. These are criminals. But people can't think anymore. Can't think. You can't drain the swamp. You can't even prosecute one Epstein guy. And they're so bold in showing you it and letting you know you're helpless. We're showing you learned helplessness. You are helpless. But what they hate the most is an informed populace. If you're informed and you expose enough light, it'll stop them. It'll wake other people up and they won't be able to get away with it. The devil's greatest tool is deception, to deceive. He's come to steal, to kill, to destroy. And Jesus said, I've come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly. So the light must expose evil and not compromise. Light has nothing in common with darkness. When the light goes on, the roaches flee. Jesus will not negotiate or compromise with the devil. What does light have in common with darkness? What does Christ have in common with Belial? Come out from among them, be separate, saith the Lord. Touch not the unclean thing and I'll receive you. The churches are wanting to be like the world. They wanna be friends of the world. No. Come out from among them, be separate. It's okay to have a small church of people who are truly saved and love God's word and love Jesus. Why would we wanna fill the pews with a bunch of unbelievers, and now we have to acquiesce and and try to pacify them and lower God's standard, and we become lukewarm, worldly, insipid, and powerless, and we don't see people getting saved anymore. How tragic that would be. I don't wanna be like that. I we're in a war. We're in a war for truth. And there's there's a price to be paid. There's a cost. I mean, you get attacked on Facebook. I mean, I lost a lot of friends on Facebook. I'm just kidding. What happened to all the likes? You know? What happened to all these people, you know, coming on there and coming after me, trolls and all that kind of stuff? And I've got a incredible power that God's given me. It's called block them. Unfriend them. Boom. Gone. No more messing with me. But the ones that understand truth, they stay on there and we continue to nurture and cultivate truth and try to discover truth together. And Carl and others send articles and send things and alright. Now we're getting a handle on it. You know, now we're now we're starting to understand what's really happening, you know. And when the Charlie Kirk thing happened, I stayed away from it. There's so many layers. There's no way I could get at the truth. I gotta wait. I gotta give time for them to get caught in their lies. And even as you give time, nobody cares anymore. It's so far in the past, you know. But there's some things like that. Other things, it's it's central things to the word of God and you have to you have to you have to be willing to receive the hatred of the world for the truth. Jesus said if they've hated me, they're gonna hate you. Woe in you when all men speak well of you. If you're a Christian and you're in the public eye out there, and the world likes you and gives you congressional medal of honor, you're in a bad place. Can you picture Jesus golfing with Pontius Pilate? Can you see him going over to Herod's and having some pancakes in the morning, you know, hanging out with Herod and his group. If there's anybody Jesus was angry at, it was the religious leaders. It was the politicians, those in power. He looked on the sheep as sheep having no shepherd, being preyed upon, being exploited. He went into the temple and he turned over the tables of the money changers and those making church incorporated, making a business out of the church, exploiting the people. He was indignant. He was not afraid. One iota of the power of the time. Pilate said, don't you know that I have power to crucify you? You know who I am? And Jesus said, you have no power except that which is given you from above. He previously said, no man takes my life from me, but I will lay it down. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again. That's real power. He laid his life down. He will not negotiate with the devil. The devil took him out in Matthew four and tempted him. If you are the son of God, forty days of no eating, body raging, grilling hormone just screaming for food. If you are the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Satisfy yourself. Use the free exercise of your deity as God to cause these stones to be made bread. Satisfy your hunger as a human being. The God man, fully God, fully man. And that's when Jesus said, it is written. He always went back to the scripture to counteract the devil. No negotiating. I'm I'm gonna obey the father. I do always those things that please the father. It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that precedes the mouth of God. Satan says, oh, I can quote scripture. I can quote scripture. I'm gonna be a part of Trump's cabinet. We're gonna pray and quote scripture and all, but we're gonna invade countries. We're gonna invade countries and do regime change, and we're gonna do the work of the globalist. We're gonna we're gonna implement the new global economic system. We're gonna implement the beast system in the name of fulfilling prophecy because we're gonna usher in Armageddon. Now we got the guys quoting the scripture. Now we got Peter Thiel running around saying, if he doesn't build this beast system, that the beast will come. The Antichrist will come. So we building this Palantir Stargate and all this technology all over the globe with our satellites and all, we're actually keeping the Antichrist from coming. Really? It looks to me like you're building the beast system waiting for him to come. But it's interesting to me, they're quoting scripture, aren't they? Everybody's quoting the scripture, pulling it out of context and all. Crazy. Just crazy. I mean I mean, so Satan quotes out of Psalm 91. He takes them up on a pillar and and he says, well, show everybody you you are the son of God. It says in the scripture, he'll give his angels charge over you lest you dash your foot against a stone. Jump off of here. Jump off of here and let the angels catch you before you hit the ground. No. It is written, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Well, then he takes them over to the the mountain and shows them all the kingdoms of the world. And he says, Jesus, you don't need to go by way of a tormenting, disfiguring death upon a cross. You don't need to go by way of the cross. I can give you the kingdoms of the world. I can give you a shortcut. Negotiate with me. Listen to my negotiation. If you bow down and worship me, a created being, an angel, a fallen angel called Lucifer has the audacity to tempt Jesus and say, hey, bow down and worship me, creator of the universe, and I'll give you all the kings of the world. Does he have the authority to do that? Jesus doesn't refute the authority because the first Adam usurped that authority, forfeited that authority of being the Adam, the the federal head of take over the earth, be fruitful and multiply. He failed and Satan usurped that role as a little as you got of this world, the prince of the power of the air. But Jesus said, no no no shortcut. I'm going by way of the cross. Father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me if there's any other way, but nevertheless not as I will, but thy will be done. If it's only wrath, if it's only your wrath upon the cross, if it's only he that knew no sin to become sin that we might be made the righteousness of God. Okay. For the joy that was set before me endured the cross despising the shame, seated down at the right hand of the father, the joy of saving you. He could see the end result of saving you and me. There's no other way. There's no plan b. Only by way of the cross. Only by being the last Adam and dying in our place, living a perfect life. And then as a substitute, as a propitiation that he would die as a lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. And you know what he does with the devil in the end? The devil's put into the abyss at Armageddon for a thousand years. Does he need 12,000 angels? Don't you know that I called down 12 legions of angels, Peter? I'm gonna put Malchus' ear back on his head, man. And I'm not putting it on upside down or crooked. I'm putting on just right. Wouldn't that be strange? You know? Don't you know that I called on 12 legions of angels? Don't you remember with Hezekiah and Senecarib and and and Isaiah where one angel killed a 185,000 of Senecarib's force? Peter, this is all according to God's will. Six thousand's a legion? You want me to call down 12 legions of angels? 72,000 angels? What do I need that many angels for? These guys are nothing. He destroys the antichrist and the beast, and everybody's saying, who could make war with the antichrist, you know? God allowed the two witnesses to be killed, lying in the street for three and a half days. Up to heaven, everybody's freaking out. Who can make war with the antichrist? Well, at Basra, when Jesus comes to Southern Jordan, when the Jews cry out, bless is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and except those days be short, no flesh should be saved. But for Israel's sake, the the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus intervenes before the antichrist and his armies can wipe them out. It says in second Thessalonians two that he destroys the antichrist, the seed of the serpent, and the false prophet with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth. He's completely in control. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So don't fear man. Don't fear the devil. Don't fear any of these. Bank on, vote on, deposit your complete trust in Jesus. He'll never fail you. There's no place of neutrality. Pilate washed his hands. He was looking for a place of neutrality. There's no place of neutrality, pilot. Neville Chamberlain tried to find a place of neutrality with Adolf Hitler. There's no place of neutrality with evil. Not gonna find it. Intent upon war, then it's war you'll get. First John three eight, he that commits sin is the is of the devil. That word committed there in first John is practicing. You're of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose, the son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil. The thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. That's the devil's modus operandi. That's his strategy. Steal, kill, and destroy you. In contrast to that, Jesus said, but I've come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly. Quantity and quality, the life of the spirit, eternal life. In Luke nine fifty six, for the son of man has not come to destroy men's lives but to save them. In John three seventeen, for God sent not his son to the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. He that believe on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. Why won't they believe? Verse 19, and this is the condemnation that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. The two angels smote the guys with blindness. They were groping for the door. They love their darkness. They don't want the angels there in the city. Get away from here. Why are you here? Why are you here? You Christians need to leave. We love our darkness. Why do they hate Jesus? Why do they hate you? Because you're light and light reproves, light exposes. But he that doeth truth comes to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God. We're not afraid of the light. We wanna glorify the Lord. We want to let our light so shine that they may see our good works and glorify our father who is in heaven. Children of light have not nothing to hell. Verse 12, for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret, those Epstein files. I don't wanna deep dive. I can't spend my time there. I see the pictures of President Trump and Epstein and Gates and so so many people, and it makes me sick to my stomach. I can't believe how compromising the church has become that we would be so unwilling to hold people accountable even after Warp Speed Jab, millions of people on record dying from this SIOP, we still will not hold those responsible accountable. Because we love America and we want what they promised. Make America great. How's it working for you? How's it working by the way? We're at war now. The economy is collapsing. Oh, hell's breaking loose and the beast system is on steroids. Can anything stop it? Only Jesus. So again, if I'm looking at Jonah and his responsibility is to go to Nineveh and tell them forty days and you're gonna perish, and from the king on down they repent and God gives them a hundred year reprieve. Isn't that my example? Why why would I believe in someone like King Nebbe? Build a statue of me, you know. Is this not great Babylon which I have built? So in Jonah, says, they that observe lying vanities, you've been tricked. It came as an idol to you. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. God stands ready to be merciful to America. We're a sinful nation. We're not a great nation. We're a sinful nation. We're the most sinful nation on the planet. Godless. And our leaders are showing us how godless they are. And we don't care. We don't wanna talk about it. We don't wanna hold anybody accountable. It can't be true. It can't be true, can it? They photoshopped that. He that really wasn't him. Come on. Ignorance is bliss though. John the Baptist, when he saw evil, what did he do? He went public. He said, hey, King Herod, taking your brother Philip's wife Herodias is against God's law. And what did it cost John the Baptist? Cost him 75 friends on Facebook. He lost 75 friends. He went home and wept. I lost 75 friends. They don't like me. Ahab's weeping to Jezebel. Oh, I want Naboth's vineyard. I want that plot of land. What a wimp. No. I'll give to half of the kingdom and Salome does a provocative dance and I want the head of John the Baptist on a on a charger, on a platter. And John man, the cousin of Jesus, he's tripping, isn't he? He's like, this is this is a curveball. I never saw this one coming. I've been bold before. What happened this time? And he he even he's even his faith is stretched. His faith is being stretched. And he's saying to his disciples, go talk to my cousin. Go talk to him and ask him, are you the one? Because I I at your baptism, I said, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Was I wrong about that? Are you the Messiah? Aren't you gonna overthrow these evil men? Aren't you gonna set up your kingdom? Are you the one or should we look for another? His faith, a crisis of faith. And the Lord said, go back and tell John what you see. Let him hear, let him think again about the fruit of my life. The poor have the gospel preached to them, the blind see, the lame walk, Demons are cast out of people. Remind them. The proof's in the pudding. He went public, but he refrained from marketing the sordid sex party details. Instead, he became a party favor for Jesus. Hard to think hard hard to think that we'd be humbled to that degree, that evil would have their day like that. That they could be boasting, gloating, and kinda like king Belshazzar in Daniel five, he's parting. He's even taken the implements, the plates and the cups and everything, the saucers for his drunken orgy party for that was taken from the temple. And in a moment, the finger of God is writing on the wall. Many, many, Tekel, Eupharsan. Hey, it's judgment day. You've been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Your kingdom's divided from you this very night and given to the Medes and the Persians, you know. The finger of God that wrote the 10 commandments, the finger of God in John eight that's writing in the dust of the ground. You that were without sin cast the first stone. He didn't come to condemn, he came to save. But when people harden their heart against God and refuse to to yield to his love, refuse heaven, then the only place left is the place of hell that they choose because of their hatred of God. When we walk as children of light, we ripen. Secondly, we reprove. And thirdly and finally, we reflect his glory. Verse 13. But all things that are reproved are manifest by the light For whatsoever doeth make manifest is light. So light makes everything visible. Light cleanses. Light heals. The laser surgery cuts away the darkness leaving only the light. You're able to see better. Right? The red light therapy. Oh, that's some good stuff there. I was getting some wrinkles. Now they're going away. Red light therapy. Light increases visibility. I I refuse to wear glasses. I I can read. I can read that small text, but I need light. If my other bible's really smaller and on Monday nights, I really gotta get that light there, it allows me to read the text. I don't have one of those giant print bibles like you old guys. I I can still I can still read right there. You got these reader glasses everywhere around the house. Now, I can't read it, I can't see well at night or distance, so I have to wear glasses to drive the car. But light increases visibility and light makes light. Light makes new believers. In John nine, the man that was born blind, God allowed him to see. The light of Jesus shining upon him. In Acts chapter nine, Saul of Tarsus was walking in darkness and Jesus came as a bright light, the Shekinah glory of God, a light brighter than the sun. He's a chosen vessel unto me, shown what things he must suffer for my name's sake. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Who art thou lord? I'm Jesus whom you're persecuting. In Job twenty nine three, he says, his candle shined upon my head and when by his light I walked through darkness. The lord shines the light upon his word and it starts to make sense to you. You start to understand the gospel, you start to see. You were blind and now you see. All I know in John nine is I was blind and now I see. I was walking in darkness but the Lord revealed, he revealed himself unto me. He's the Messiah. He's the Christ. Verse 14, wherefore he say it, awake out that sleepeth and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light. This give thee light in the Greek is epiphao is shall shine upon thee. It's the rising of the sun, s u n. The rising of the s o n in your heart. God shall give thee light. Jesus said, I'm come a light into the world that whosoever believes on me should not walk in darkness. That word epiphomeo is the same or this verse here, verse 14 is a fulfillment of Isaiah chapter 60 verses one through three. I've come a light into the world and whosoever believes on me should not walk in darkness. It's time to choose what will it be, light or darkness? Life or death? Jesus or Barabbas? No neutrality. You're either for him or you're against him. The kingdom of light or the kingdom of darkness, which are you on? Which side are you on? You gotta choose. Choose you to this day. Joshua said, who you'll serve? The gods on the other side or the true and living God? Everyone must choose. God has not made you without the power of choice, without the free moral agency of man. He respects your choice. He's made you for his love. In order for love to be meaningful, for it to be true, you must choose whether or not you choose to love him or not. And he respects your choice. If you persist in rejecting his love, because it's the kindness of God that leads us to repentance. It's his love. He causes it to rain on the just and the unjust. He doesn't just allow the precipitation to hit the believers farms, he allows the precipitation to hit the unbelievers farms. And the unbeliever with his farm and with his kids gets the same amount of rain so that he can grow food and get wealthy from it, whatever. But that power of choice. He's loving, he's kind. And he wants you to choose to love him. If you persist in your unbelief, if you persist in rejecting him, then one day you'll hear him say, not my will, but thy will be done. What a tragic day that is. What a tragic day it is when God gives in to our rebellion. When we're so sick and tired of the manna coming down from heaven. We're so sick and tired. We're so bored with God's word. We're so bored with preachers that just won't shut up. We don't want the word of God. We've got tickling ears. We wanna be entertained. We wanna hear what we wanna hear. And the children of Israel, they said, we're tired of this manna. We're tired of the angel's food. We want savory food. We want food like the world, like Egypt. We want meat. I'm a carnivore, man. So the Lord caused flocks of quail to come in belt high, and they're hitting homers of quail. And they got to eat the quail. They got the meat till it's coming out their nostrils, coming out their ears. The Lord gave them their request. What would it be like if you got what you demanded of God? If you had enough faith in the faith movement, faith prosperity, that you could demand of God, and he give in to your demand and give you what you think you gotta have. And now you're singing with Mick Jagger, I can't get no satisfaction. I tried I tried I tried. I can't get no. I can't get no. He put leanness in their heart. There's a leanness there. They they couldn't enjoy it because it was outside of God's will. They rejected the bread of life. They rejected Jesus for the world, the things of the world. Where are you at with God? Light or darkness? Life or death? Jesus or Barabbas? No neutrality. Which side are you on? Whose side are you on? You must choose. To not decide is to decide already. Matthew twelve thirty, he that is not with me is against me and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven. Which is it, light or darkness? Hell, outer darkness, Matthew 22 verse 13, where the where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. Hell where the worm dieth not and the fire's never quenched. Depart from me, you cursed into everlasting fire. Prepare for not you, prepare for the devil. And his angels, one third of the stars in Revelation 12 fell with Lucifer. Lucifer's fall, his I will, his pride in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. Lucifer, a fallen angel, an exalted cherub angel, great position, but that isn't enough. I wanna be God. God won't force you to walk in the light with him. You must choose. He says, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord in Isaiah two verse five. Walk as children of light. And the nation of Israel, on the day of on the day of the Passover, they had an opportunity excuse me, not the Passover. That was four days later. On Palm Sunday. On Palm Sunday, they had an opportunity to choose. And according to the scriptures, according to Zechariah nine verse nine, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a foal, on a donkey that had never been ridden. And Luke's account says, and when he had thus spoken, he went before sending up to Jerusalem. It came to pass when he was come nigh to Bethpage Of Bethany, the mount called the Mount Of Olives. He sent two of his disciples saying, go ye into the village over against you in which you enter and you'll find a colt tied where on yet, never a man sat, loose him and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, why do you loose him? Thus shall you say unto him, because the Lord has need of him. And they that were sent went their way and found even as he had said unto them and as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto him, why? Why loosey the colt? And they said the Lord is in need of him. And he brought him to Jesus, and they cast their garments upon the colt. And they set Jesus thereon according to Zechariah nine nine. Now Matthew's account and Mark's account, it says that they began to cut palm branches down. They began to take blankets and lay them in the road. And that's a picture of a king, the entry of a king into the city, the Messiah. And it's a picture of a triumphal entry of a king entering the city. And they're crying out, Hosanna. They're quoting out of Psalm 118. Hosanna. Save now. Save now. Save now. And you know the story. As he's riding in there, crying out, save now. And the religious leaders hear the people crying out, now. Save now. And they said, refrain. Don't let them say that. They're they're receiving you as the Messiah, as the Christ, as the anointed one. And Jesus let them know that, hey, if what they refrain, then the very rocks would cry out. That's what day this is. He says, and I say unto you, if they should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. And when he was come near, he beheld the city and he wept over it. Saying if thou had known even thou at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace, but now they are hid under your eyes. If you'd have known what day this is, what day is this? This is the day prophesied that the Messiah would ride into Jerusalem presenting himself under the nation as the Messiah. So in Daniel nine twenty five through 27, there's 70 sevens concerning the nation of Israel. So from the time that the command goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah, the prince, shall be sixty nine seven year periods of time. So on March, Artaxerxes Lodimannus gave the command for Nehemiah, Ezra, and for the the remnant that was there held in Babylon for seventy years to leave Babylon and to go rebuild Jerusalem. March. So if you count forward according to Julian Calendar by sir Robert Anderson figured this out mathematically, that it would be sixty nine seven year periods of time or four hundred and eighty three years from that command to go forth and restore and rebuild Jerusalem. According to Daniel nine twenty five through 27, we're told that Messiah would be cut off. He'd be cut off. He'd be rejected. January later, April, Jesus rode that donkey into Jerusalem presenting himself as the Messiah. But Messiah was cut off. So Jesus looks over the city knowing the same people that said, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now. These same people four days later at Passover are gonna be crying out, crucify him, crucify him, let his blood be upon us and upon our children. So he weeps over the city. How often I would have gathered you as a mother hen does gather her brood under her wings, but you would not. Why? Because you didn't know the time of your visitation. If you'd have known in this thy day, this very day prophetically, This fulfillment. But you're walking in darkness. You don't study prophecy. You're not students of prophecy. You're unaware of the coming of the Messiah. And he knew that not one stone remain upon another, that general Titus in seventy AD would surround the city of Jerusalem and destroy the city. And he's weeping over the city because couple million Jews are gonna be trapped in there and gonna die and his intention was to save them. To save them. And what was God's intention? In Isaiah chapter 60, as we read verse 14, wherefore he say the wake thou that sleeps and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Quoting from Isaiah 60. Arise and shine for thy light has come and the glory of the lord is risen upon thee. My dad was in the navy and when he'd wake us up in the morning, he'd say, rise and shine, rise and shine. That's a biblical term. Rise and shine for thy light has come and the glory of the lord has risen upon thee. For behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people, but the lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee. The second coming. The second coming. He's coming brighter than the sun. He's coming with his Shekinah glory. The whole world's gonna see him coming. And it says verse three, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy of thy rising. The nation of Israel has failed God's intention for them to be a light unto the Gentiles. But in their rejection of Messiah, the church ages opened up which starts with Jew and Gentile, barbarian, Scythian, bond and free, male, female, whosoever will, let them come. There's a day when Israel's gonna be back in the land, the Lord Jesus is gonna come as a bright light and the Gentiles are gonna be drawn there to worship king Jesus. Peter, he has a testimony. In first Peter, he talks about when in Matthew 17, he was upon the Mount Of Transfiguration where Jesus shone bright bright and his face shining real bright. And the Shekinah glory there And bowing their heads down, they said they heard the Lord say, this my beloved son. In him, I'm well pleased. Listen to him. And Peter says, that's eyewitness testimony of his majesty. That's eyewitness testimony of the person that we handled. This is the Messiah. But we have a more sure word of prophecy. We have a greater evidence than eye witness testimony that we would prove in a court of law. All of us willing to die for the truth. Because we know it's true. He's risen. We know it's true. But the prophecies have all lined up like a light shining upon a world that's in darkness. How dark is the world today? How bright is prophecy shining? Are we taking our light and put it under a bush or are we letting it shine? Peter says, we have also a more sure word of prophecy, where until you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts. Walk as children of light in these last days. Let the prophetic light of God's infallible word lead and guide you. Choose light. Choose light. For why would you abide in darkness for all eternity? When Jesus, the light of the world has come so that you don't abide in darkness. That whosoever believes in him is not gonna abide in darkness. Walk as children of light. Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you for your love, Lord. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for drawing us out of the world, for revealing yourself unto us. Thank you for this Palm Sunday as we look back to the day you were presenting yourself to the nation of Israel. And Lord, we thank you for this moment right now that you're presenting yourself unto us. That Lord, by the power of your Holy Spirit, your Holy Spirit's bearing witness to our spirit that you're the son of God, the only begotten son of God. And Father, we pray if there's anyone here this morning that's abiding in darkness, maybe religious, maybe righteous, a good person, but still, Lord, spiritually dark. They're not born again. They're not children of light yet. Lord, we pray by the power of your Holy Spirit that you'd illumine their heart and mind that they'd see the cross, that they'd see your finished work, that they'd see, Lord, their need of a savior, That the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God's eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Lord, let the light bulb go on. Let let it let it click. Let the scales fall from their heart and their eyes. Lord, convert. Convert them. Turn them from darkness to light even now as they exercise their free will in surrendering unto you. Crying out, God be merciful to me a sinner. Come into my heart. Lord, as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. Anyone this morning, you don't know Jesus, you don't have a relationship with him, but the light of God's word, the light of his spirit is is dispelling the darkness. The darkness is fleeing and you have a knowledge, you have a clear picture of what God's asking of you. There's no stuttering, there's no ambiguity. It's real clear. You need Christ. You need Jesus. He's come to seek and to save that which is lost. He doesn't want you to abide in darkness for all eternity. It's real clear. Even a child could understand. If you choose darkness, it's because you hate the light, because your deeds are evil. You don't want to change. There's nothing we can do about that. But we just implore, we beg, we ask, we we plead, why would you die in your sins? Turn while you have a chance. Anyone here this morning, just lift your hand up as we wanna pray with you and lead you into prayers. You receive Christ. He came unto his own and his own received him not. The nation rejected him. He was in the world, the world was made by him and the world knew him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Are you believing on his name? Have you received Christ? Today's the day of salvation. Anyone here this morning? Don't leave here in your fig leaves. Leave here in a coat of righteousness, clothed with the righteousness of Jesus. Father, thank you. Thank you for your love, Lord. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you that your mercies are new each morning. Thank you for helping us live the Christian life in the power of the Holy Spirit that enables us, that humbles us, that keeps us pliable, keeps us usable. Father, fill us to overflowing today. Give us an open door that no man can shut, Lord. Give us an opportunity on this Palm Sunday, on this passion week, leading up to the celebration of the resurrection. Lord, give us opportunities, open doors to share your love with people. Bring the lost, Lord, bring the hurting, bring those who are sick and tired of living in darkness, Lord. Save them, Lord. Give us the opportunity. Give us the privilege of sharing your love with them. 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.
